Ghana · Post-feasibility
Songor Lagoon
We're adding the carbon-development layer to restoration and hydrology work already under way in the Songor Ramsar site and UNESCO biosphere reserve. Our partners here are the Dutch Water Authorities and Blue Deal Ghana.
SONGOR LAGOON · LOWER VOLTA DELTA
Area
~1,300ha
hectares of gross candidate restoration area
- Feasibility
- ~800 ha identified by partners
- Additional candidate area
- ~500 ha
- Landscape
- Ramsar site · UNESCO MAB reserve
- Hydrology
- Creek desilting pilots under way
- Carbon pathway
- Verra VM0033 (proposed)
- Carbon development
- Led by MAIS Eco
A different route to scale
Many of the best restoration actors in West Africa are water authorities, NGOs and conservation groups with deep local credibility but no carbon-market capacity. At Songor, MAIS Eco brings the PDD, MRV, legal structuring and commercialisation. Our partners stay recognised for the restoration, the hydrology and the science they lead.
Water before trees
Hydrological restoration around Songor has already begun, including creek dredging and desilting alongside mangrove trials. That groundwork is the main reason restoration projects in lagoon systems survive, and the main thing many of them lack.
