Alerce DAO
By Endangered Tokens: The ecosystem where you can foster biodiversity and make an investment out of it.
Who we are
The Endangered Tokens (ENTS) Foundation is a multi-chain ecosystem in which landowners, NGOs, investors, artists and local communities actively collaborate with biodiversity preservation through the tokenization & conservation of Endangered Species, generating a value-driven economy.
Alerce DAO is a branch of Endangered Tokens that seeks to focus on the preservation, conservation, regenerative management of the habitat & landscape of Fitzroya Cupressoides, through the integration of value with web 3.0 within Harmony One Chain seeking to be one of the first regenerative finance projects within this ecosystem.
Fitzroya Cupressoides is an endangered tree species, endemic of template forests of South America, distributed mostly in Southern Chile and declared a natural monument by the Chilean government in 1976, forbidding any damage to Alerce specimens on Chilean territory. How ever, it is estimated that Alerce had suffer a reduction of over 70% of its
population over the last 300 years with an alarming peak over the last 30 years, due mostly from illegal timber, lack of knowledge of Chilean regulation and few to none control & fiscalization by authorities.
Nowadays, less than 17% of Fitzroya cupressoides population is preserved in national parks, and very few private conservation programs are developed, due mostly by lack of incentives and funding, even though Alerce represents a natural treasure for the Chilean community.
We want to return the natural value to Endangered Species and biodiversity through the tokenization of living specimens of endangered species as a store of value and generate a global decentralized economic ecosystem of tradable assets and incentives to promote its survival and reproduction through the collaboration and engagement of the community. Thus acquiring value to stakeholders through the natural scarcity of the species, art, gaming, tourism, environmental education, local sustainable development, and carbon credits.
Our 3 mandates
- Preserve; Finance biodiversity preservation through tokenization of Alerce tree specimens.
- Engage; Provide environmental & Crypto education to Communities on Regenerative finance, landscape restoration and biodiversity preservation.
- Incentivize; Form a decentralized regenerative finance investment community for biodiversity preservation, giving value and governance to stakeholders through Crypto Assets, thus incentivizing regenerative actions within threatened ecosystems.
Our goals
Our first three month
-Build and create the administrative structure of Alerce DAO (governance, accountability, legal, etc)
-Launch Social Token
-First Alerce cadaster/Tokenization campaign
-Partnership with at least one influencer
For our first year
-Produce 12 online talks on biodiversity preservation and Regenerative finance in spanish, portuguese and English.
-Build a database on Fitzroya cupressoides communities, NGO´s and regenerative/preservation projects on Alerce natural distribution area
-Design and evaluate a Conservation Action Plan for Alerce preservation according to ENTS Conservation program
-Partnership with Local NGO´s, Land owners, local communities and other projects on alerce preservation
-Promote Regenerative finance alliance and activities on Harmony One Ecosystem
Social Token ($SEED)
$SEED is a social token built on the Harmony Ecosystem (HRC-20). SEED is the DAO’s community token that will be distributed to collaborators, partnerships, NFT Holders, Landowners, NGO’s and other organizations and people participating within our mission. Partner organizations will exchange SEED for different services.
Alerce DAO leverages from the intrinsic value endangered ecosystems bring towards the world. While doing so, its holders can be benefited by the multiple alliances around conservation and companies that will want to take part in our mission.
Some of the perks that will have holding $SEED
-Pay to plant new trees within threatened ecosystems
-Be whitelisted to upcoming NFT drops
-Discounts in local tourism around Alerce Trees
-Discounts in the purchase of Carbon Credits
-Purchase NFTs from our ecosystem.
-Access to exclusive content from our conservation activities
-Discount in audiovisual material from endangered ecosystems
Proposal Ask
US$ 10.000 as Project Y initial grant.
Metric success first year
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Alerce Dao Platform
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At least 50 “Elder ENT Alerce” NFT on Harmony One
-100 Active Members on telegram
-5000 Follower on social media
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12 Online Talks
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10 Project partnership within ENTS Ecosystem . (Local Ngo, Land Owners, local projects and Artists)
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At least 1000 tree planted alongside restoration activities.
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1 Database platform on Alerce Preservation
Preserve to Earn Ecosystem
Endangered species are part of complex ecosystems that are now fragile due to human activity, threatening biodiversity. Their preservation is expensive since there are almost no incentives for landowners and authorities to preserve them and have even become liabilities. On top of that NGOs struggle to finance conservation activities relying mostly on donations.
With this in mind, Endangered tokens foundation provides decentralized funding for local Ngos, communities and landowners that, with courage, struggle every day for preserving their natural heritage, as well as governance and incentives for investors and stakeholders.
Endangered Tokens’s first NFT Collection on Gomortega Keule species has already been developed on Polygon network, launched, whitelisted, opened for minting and conservation & landscape restoration actions are already being executed on Queule territory. This NFT stands for a single Gomortega Keule specimen and represents the godparentship of that tree. Thus, representing a valuable asset within the blockchain ecosystem as a form of value from this scarce species.
Providing and developing a decentralized investment community on biodiversity preservation needs to be built, taste and scale, in a manner that we can reach as many species as we can, and with it take care of our natural heritage as human beings. For this, a big community must be conformed and organize promoting the right economic incentives for biodiversity preservation. From these actions we can extract value to feed the ecosystem through artists collaborators, tourism, audiovisual material, metaverse connection with the forest, donations among other value propositions. These incentives mechanisms, alongside the assets being created, represent the Preserve-to-earn ecosystem we are forming.
With Alerce DAO we want to replicate what has been accomplished with the Queule, but integrate other incentives experimentation mechanisms, starting from the very beginning with a DAO to support the conservation of the Alerce from day one. As well as promote regenerative finance initiatives within the Harmony community.
The initiative has four important development Areas:
Onchain Development
Conservation
Communication
Community
We will use our funds to finance at least one half-time contributor for each development área.
-1x Core developer
-1x Conservation manager
-1x Content specialist
-1x Community Manager
This teams will develop on-demand content following guidelines set by Endangered Tokens Foundation
The content will be produced aiming at the characteristics and attributes of the species, such as, for example, the cultural meaning, height, habitat, surroundings.
Expedition/NFT Content construction workflow
- Pre-production: Period for collecting NGO´S, Landowners and local projects database.
- Expedition/ Production: Operational period where Alerce DAO / ENTS team will fulfill their tasks following deadlines, protocols and available resources, providing “Elder Ents Alerce” NFTs on Harmony One.
- Post-production: Once Alerce NFTs are created and ready to be minted, Alerce Dao will be conformed, linking alerce NFT stakeholders to NGO´s, landowners and local projects, as well as social token distribution, for community engagement.
Meet Our Governors
The multisignature holders are:
- Ignacio Puga, Hydraulic Engineer and Web Crypto Enthusiast.
- Nicolas Laban, Agronomist, Biodiversity Preservation and Landscape restoration designer
- Oscar Castillo, developer, entrepreneur.
- Amelia Tiska, Designer, UIUX, Photography.
Meet Our Contributors
- Willy Ogorzaly, Mentor, Shapeshift product manager, Giveth Co-founder.
- Antonia Puga, photographer and audiovisual editor
- Diego Parrague, Artist.
- Cristobal Silva, Developer
- George Laban, Environmental Education Funique
- Jason Peters, Entrepreneur and tech investor
- Charles Courtin, Regenerative Conservation Deseigne, Sangre de Cristo Initiative
- Patricio Varas, Landowner/Grove Keeper
- Nicolas Poblete, Local actor and regenerative influencer
- Costa Sur, local chilean NGO
Our alliances
- Refi Dao
- Koiwe.eco
- Charged Particles
- NFTFY. org
- MAD NFT (TB consolidated)
We do not own the rights of the picture used, but is the kind of content we would like to generate to our community in a decentralized rights management, and we are just using it as a reference for our project.