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Incentive: Certified Forests

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Many oil palm companies already have concessions to convert large tracts of virgin forest to oil palm plantations. Project POTICO is designed to have oil palm companies retire planned oil palm concessions. Instead, the forest will come under a sustainable forest management certification program such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or under conservation status. This step would save the virgin forest and its biodiversity from being destroyed.