Wovoka

Natural capital operatorPhilippines and Uganda

Building yield from restored tropical land.

Native forest, agroforestry and mangroves on degraded land, built with the communities who hold the land.

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Bukidnon, Mindanao: degraded upland grassland, the kind of land we restore

On the record

Checked 8 Oct 2026. Registry status is quoted in Verra's own words.

Carbon claims change only when the registry does. We quote it and date the check.

Why an operator

Restoration only lasts if the land pays.

Much of the land we work on is degraded: grassland, eroded upland or abandoned fishpond. It earns the people who hold it very little. So we build what restored land can sell (coffee, vanilla, mangrove fisheries and, over time, carbon) and run the work ourselves, with our own field teams and tools. The land stays with the communities who hold it.

A developer hands a project document to someone else. An operator runs the land.

How we work

Four things we run.

More on how we work

  1. Land that pays now

    Agroforestry and mangrove fisheries are designed to earn from the first harvests, years before carbon can. Buji Vanilla is in market today.

    Buji Vanilla (opens in a new tab) Mindoro Coffee (opens in a new tab)

  2. Carbon built to audit

    Mindoro Arawatan is listed on Verra's project pipeline under VM0047, with no credits issued yet. Seedlings will be geotagged at planting, and plots monitored by satellite, drone and field teams.

    The record ↓

  3. Communities hold the land

    Our partners hold the land rights: Indigenous communities under ancestral domain titles (CADTs), and people's organisations under community-based forest management agreements (CBFMAs) with DENR. Nothing is developed before free, prior and informed consent.

    CADT · CBFMA · consent first

  4. Run on our own tools

    Ghost Dance, our field app, is built to pay community members in GCash for each approved photo of their land, because satellites can't see through the clouds. Carbon.Supply, the registry tracker we built, reads Verra, Gold Standard, Isometric and Equitable Earth every day.

    Carbon market, read daily →

Projects

Four landscapes, at four stages.

Title, consent and permits come first, and they take time. Each landscape is shown at the stage it has reached, on the land and in carbon.

All projects
MindoroCamarines NorteBukidnonBuikweUgandaPHILIPPINES
Province-level locations.

running under way not yet

Open grassland with scattered trees in Mindoro, the kind of land the project restores to native forest Listed on Verra's pipeline

Mindoro Arawatan

Mindoro, Philippines

Held by
Six Indigenous communities and 12 people's organisations.
Land
Under way. A native-forest pilot with two people's organisations; coffee and cacao agroforestry to follow.
Carbon
Under way. Listed on Verra's project pipeline. Next: validation by an independent auditor.
Mangroves along a tidal shore in Bicol, from the air Pilot

Bicol Blue

Camarines Norte, Philippines

Held by
A people's organisation, under a community-based forest management agreement with DENR.
Land
Under way. A 10 ha mangrove pilot on fishponds idle for more than ten years, with GCash GForest. Planting from early 2027.
Carbon
Not yet. The pilot comes first.
Forested ridges and cleared slopes in a Bukidnon valley Feasibility

Bukidnon Kaamulan

Bukidnon, Philippines

Held by
The Indigenous communities who hold the ancestral domain title. A three-year agreement covers 40,000 ha.
Land
Under way. Feasibility: which land suits native forest, coffee and cacao, planned with the communities.
Carbon
Not yet. Nothing is listed before free, prior and informed consent.
UGANDALake VictoriaBuikweLake Victoria shore In market

Buikwe Vanilla

Buikwe District, Uganda

Held by
Smallholder farmers on 21 mapped farms.
Land
Running. Vanilla grown in agroforestry, sold in the US as Buji Vanilla.
Carbon
None planned. Buikwe earns from what the land grows.

From these landscapes

What the land produces.

Each brand sells on its own site.

Coffee growing under tall shade trees on a smallholder farm in Oriental Mindoro (field photo, 17 Jun 2026)
Field photo, 17 Jun 2026
From Mindoro, Philippines

Mindoro Coffee

Robusta, Arabica, Excelsa and Liberica from smallholder farms in Oriental Mindoro, shade-grown in agroforestry, with processing at origin in Roxas.

Visit Mindoro Coffee (opens in a new tab)

The record

Mindoro, in the registry's own words.

Carbon claims get audited, so we quote the registry instead of describing it. Anyone can check this entry.

  1. Listed
  2. Validation
  3. Registration
  4. Verification
  5. Credits issued

Verra's sequence. An independent auditor validates the project design next. Credits can only be issued after registration and verification.

People

Philippines-led, from fieldwork to project development.

  • Lee PearsonChief Executive Officer
  • Denise JanerChief Strategy Officer
  • Ren LeovidoHead of Carbon and Community
  • Jack AvancenaHead of Luzon Field Operations
  • Jong AsuncionHead of Mindanao Field Operations
Mark Ian Abellon Shenelle Perera Ayeka Espeleta Jansel Lumactud

and colleagues in business development, operations and research.

Meet the team and advisors

Field teams in Luzon and MindanaoField operations leads and community organisers who work on the land with our partners.
An advisory board of 14Advisors in social forestry, blue carbon, biodiversity, remote sensing, climate data, carbon finance and Indigenous rights. Meet them
Wovoka Advisory, our sister firmA separate company. It does feasibility and field work for multilaterals, government and project developers. hello@wovokagroup.com

Partner with us

For companies, funders, carbon credit buyers and researchers who want to work with us on a project.

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Scope your land

For people's organisations, Indigenous councils, local governments and landowners in the Philippines with land to restore. You keep the land, and nothing starts without your community's free, prior and informed consent.

Tell us about the land

How a landscape joins

  1. ScreeningYou tell us about the land, and we reply.
  2. Feasibility and consentWe visit, check tenure and start free, prior and informed consent.
  3. DevelopmentRestoration design, products and, where it fits, carbon.
  4. StewardshipMonitoring and upkeep for decades, with the people who hold the land.

Government, multilateral or research work? That is Wovoka Advisory, our sister firm. Email hello@wovokagroup.com