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Wildlife Works

59Mixed / Improving· Provisional
0 followersNature-based solutions·Mill Valley, California, USA·Founded 1997
www.wildlifeworks.com/

Pioneer community-centred REDD+ forest carbon developer protecting 1.24 million acres across Kenya and the DRC, and the first company to achieve VCS+CCB dual verification for a REDD+ project.

59/100
Mixed / Improving· Provisional

ClimateTicker Green Score · how it's calculated

Greenwashing risk: mediumData confidence: medium

Why it's on ClimateTicker

Wildlife Works is the founding pioneer of verified REDD+ forest carbon, with dual VCS+CCB-certified projects protecting 1.24 million acres in Kenya and the DRC, generating verified avoided-deforestation credits with genuine community co-benefits. The core business model is directly tied to preventing real deforestation, making its climate impact credible in principle, but REDD+ as a sector faces well-documented methodological risks around additionality, permanence, and baseline overestimation that warrant scrutiny of claimed emission volumes. Investors should treat Wildlife Works as a high-integrity operator within a structurally uncertain asset class, not as a zero-risk impact vehicle.

mitigationWildlife Works generates revenue by developing and selling Verified Emission Reductions (VERs/VCUs) from REDD+ avoided-deforestation projects to corporate buyers seeking voluntary carbon offsets, with a secondary income stream from eco-branded consumer products and consulting on jurisdictional REDD+ frameworks for governments.

Commitments & Certifications

other: Certified — Gold Level ↗other: Verified — VCS (Verra) REDD+ Credits Issued ↗other: Certified ↗

Controversy & Greenwashing Watch

lowAbsence of Corporate-Level Climate Targets and Disclosure

Wildlife Works has no publicly available SBTi validation, CDP filing, or corporate sustainability report, meaning buyers and investors cannot independently verify the company's own operational emissions or assess the gap between its marketing as a climate leader and its own governance standards.source ↗

mediumREDD+ Sector Baseline Overestimation Risk

Investigative journalism and academic research in 2023 raised broad concerns that Verra-certified REDD+ projects systemically overestimate deforestation baselines, potentially inflating the volume of real emissions reductions; while no specific Wildlife Works project was individually singled out as fraudulent, the company's projects operate under the same Verra VCS framework scrutinized by these investigations, creating material reputational and credit-quality risk.source ↗

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