Amazon is backing a large scale spekboom restoration project in South Africa's Eastern Cape. The project aims to restore degraded land using spekboom, a succulent known for its carbon sequestration ability. Developers say they want to bring infrastructure grade work to the nature restoration economy, which could generate carbon credits for the voluntary market. The video report from News24 shows the scale of the planting effort and the project's potential to generate verified carbon credits. For anyone tracking nature based solutions in the voluntary carbon market, this is a concrete example of a corporate backed restoration project with measurable carbon claims. The key question is how the carbon credits will be verified and whether the project can deliver long term sequestration at scale.
