PLANT to join hands with CCC’s Consortium for Conservation

Sri Lanka’s acclaimed sustainability advisory agency Climate and Conservation Consortium (CCC) reaffirmed its commitment to conservation when it entered into a partnership with PLANT (Preserving Land and Nature (Guarantee) Ltd, the country’s largest privately funded land conservation initiative.

PLANT signed a multi-year Partnership MOU with the Climate and Conservation Consortium (CCC), with the objective of engaging their support to obtain specialist inputs in climate and conservation areas, which come due to the broad experience that CCC possess through a team of several in-house specialists, and partners who are sustainability consultants and industry experts. They will also act as an Ambassador for PLANT by presenting the work being done by PLANT to third parties, and channelling efforts of international and local partners who seek credible sustainability initiatives to fund and endorse.

The CCC Board is chaired by 2021 Blue Planet Prize Laureate and co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace Desamanya  Prof. Mohan Munasinghe, and has over a decade of global expertise in greenhouse gas reduction, reforestation and international carbon project development, in addition to its capabilities in biodiversity assessment and water footprinting among others.

In late 2020, the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS) established a Guarantee Not-for-Profit company, to acquire privately owned lands (outright or on a long-term lease) and to collect funds through the entity, and the WNPS, to purchase lands for the purpose of being held in trust for conservation. The initiative has made great progress so far and PLANT coverage by September through direct ownership and MOU engagements with landowners extend to over 300 Acres in diverse locations and is helping protect many precious endemic plants and species.