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| So how is Del Oro to pay for this environmental service of returning the orange peel/pulp to the organic cycle? These are Del Oro orange plantations, and Volcan Orosi in the background is covered with the ACG from about where the pastures lie, upward. The space between the ACG and the Del Oro orange plantations is filled with chunks of forest - one of which covers the center of this image - that Del Oro bought when it bought the entire landscape for its plantations. This forest is contiguous with the ACG forest. Del Oro can pay in hectares of forest. There are 1600 ha of forest between the orange plantations and the ACG, forest of extreme conservation importance because it lies on the interface between the rainforest to the east (left) and dry forest to the west (right). These are valued at $400,000, so the ACG will offer $400,000 worth of environmental services to Del Oro, with the bulk of these being the degradation of 1000 truckloads of peel/pulp per year for 20 years. | ||
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