Help us register, verify and propagate ENTS: Monumental, endangered and ancient Trees. The scarce treasures of the forests. Let's build a new economy backed by these assets proof of being preserved.

Endangered Tokens is a ReFi dMRV & NFT community looking to revalue biodiversity and incentivize regeneration by tokenizing endangered & monumental trees with web3 preserve&earn incentives and digital value added with content, technology and real world impact.

Location Based Impact:

We are making impact in five specific locations within 2 regions of Chile in a direct way:

• El Hual-Hual Forest: A private conservation area located in the coastal side of Ñuble Region in Chile. We have tokenized 25 Queules and helped the landowner finance its conservation efforts.
• Los Maquis regeneration center: Its landowner is looking to regenerate land used for industrial wood harvesting and residential plots. We have planted over 10 Queules plus removed foreign species to let the native forest grow. This round we looking to expand this impact.
• Alto el Molino private conservation Área: We are working together with "Los Peumos SpA. " to incentivize the protection of a native forest located within a land destined to be plotted for residential use. We looking to protect more than 10000 square meters of land and include Queules and Pitaos as Endangered Species to be positioned within the reserve.
• Quebrada Cerrillos: A private conservation reserve in which we have conversations to start a Endangered Species planting among the different landowners that hold the governance of the reserve.
• Escuela Chucao: A private rural School located in the "Los Lagos" Region in southern Chile, in the middle of the habitat of the Alerce tree (fitzroya Cuprezoides). We Will have a Alerce nursery run by students, and will teach students about the importance of endangered trees to protect endangered habitats.

Other locations to integrate: We are looking to decentralize the process of onboarding locations to our platform so more landowners can benefit from endangered trees as biodiversity assets. Hopefully with this method scale our location impact model towards a decentralized impact model.

TLDR: What's new since the Last round (RWBGG21)?

• EntSnap, the tree verification dapp, on Open Beta stage.
• WebApp backoffice for Entsnap Data validation v1.0
• Webapp for tree tokenization from Entsnap Data in development
• Five location based agreements to register/plant new endangered trees in 2024/2025

Roadmap for this round (MA earth GG22):

• Entsnap Open Beta ongoing.
• UX new features proposal for Entsnap
• 4 Activities with "Escuela Chucao" community regarding Alerce tree (Fitzroya Cuprezoides) in Puerto Varas.
• Planting activity at Centro Los Maquis
• Queule Nursery support at El Hual-Hual

Why support us?

Problem to Solve

Endangered trees are responsible for maintaining the health of most of the world's endangered forest ecosystems, but rarely produce relevant revenue for landowners (without being damaged) and even become financial liabilities, thus encouraging their ilegal felling.

Endangered Tokens’ Solution

Leverage web3, dMRV to incentivize the protection of these scarce beings by changing their status from merely the cost of maintaining a tree to a revenue producing Bio-Asset. Using NFTs ERC-721 we tokenize trees through imaging and georeferencing becoming pioneers in the tokenization of Natural Real World Assets (NRWA)

Missions

1.-To foster the protection of endangered trees by bestowing them with tangible value in society.

2.-Form a decentralized investment community for biodiversity preservation, giving value and governance to stakeholders through Crypto Assets.

Vision

As humans we need to revalue biodiversity and living ecosystems through the preservation of Endangered Species, which are invaluable natural assets to society. We envision a world where endangered and long lived trees are not only preserved but also revered for their intrinsic value, fostering a harmonious coexistence between nature and society.

How will we accomplish this?

Endangered Tokens is a ReFi & DeSci NFT community looking to revalue biodiversity by tokenizing georeferenced endangered trees. We are building a real life impact coordination game in which users can receive rewards for verifying georreferenced trees with their phones. Each specimen is characterized and photographed alongside a small verse description, and when owning one, you become the godfather of a scarce endangered tree! With the funds raised we will help landowners and communities finance the protection of endangered Forest with reforestation, verification of carbon credits from the forests and the creation of quality digital content & data to add value to the tokens, among our activities within a territory we do:

• Location based community activities, engaging local communities to learn about Endangered Species and to register, verify and plant trees in a decentralized way.
• Georeferenced images and interactive mapping, Taken through our Entsnap dApp in a decentralized way and available publicly.
• Inmersive UX for ReFi Assets, to engage with web3 enthusiasts and show the value of each token as seen in real life.
• 3D tourism experience of the protected forests thus reducing the footprint of real life tourism while also generating a continuous flow of revenue to keep supporting the protection of the forests.
• Using the 3D replicas of each tree as a virtual asset for video games and/or augmented reality experiences
• Recording data from the forest for research and enhanced digital experiences like music from the frequencies of the trees, bioacoustics, video recording of the ecosystems, climate data, water flow, among other relevant information.

NFT holders will receive a portion of the revenue that will come from the NFT Sales, tourism experiences, data management and carbon credits, thus converting endangered trees from liabilities to biodiversity assets for the future.

We are also developing a new type of Credit Class for Old Grown Trees (OGT credit Class) so any type of big tree can become a way of proving your positive impact in the world and a way of financing its protection, instead of cutting them down for wood.

Which kind of trees are we talking about?

Endangered and Critically endangered trees, among other classificiations, are the ones that has 10000 specimens alive or less. You can check all endangered species on the IUCN Redlist

We are currently working in Chile in South america, with the rare species Gomortega Keule, or locally known as Queule. This magnificent beings are the last one of the Gomortegacae Family, dating its evolution to Pangea times. It is estimated that there are no more than 4000 specimens alive in the world! (Scarcer than Bitcoin!)

With the help of past Gitcoin Grants we are also making contacts and reviewing possible projects with the Brazilian Tree "Pau Brasil" or Paubrasilia echinata an endangered Species of tree from which the country got it's name! The heavily abused lumbering by portuguese conquerors depleted their population and nowadays is a rare and unique living being.

You can check more species we are going to work with here: https://www.endangeredtokens.org/entswiki

How will grant funding has been/will be spent?

As of the date of this 22th round of Gitcoin Grants (#GG21 #letsgrow) we have raised around 40000 DAI through Gitcoin that we have spent cautiously in development and growth and also have some saved for our roadmap goals. Without Gitcoin this project would not be able to keep moving forward as we have. We thank every supporter and every sponsor of the Climate Rounds, real world builders, Ma Earth and the Climate Coordination Network Collective for its amazing work!

Things we have invested until now and will continue to invest:

1. Project development

Develop the products, contracts and DAPPs necessary to ensure mission fulfilment, growth and engagement. See ongoing projects for further detail.

2. Vital activities core team funding

• [x] General administration
• [x] Coding and development
• [x] Marketing and community growth
• [x] NGO's and landowners coordination
• [x] Content creation and production

3. Endangered Tokens Conservation program for location based activities

• Tokenization, extensive cadastre & landowner agreements
• in-situ conservation actions to reduce threats.
• Ex-situ conservation actions and landscape restoration actions
• Sustainable local development & community engagement
• Research on species and their habitats
• Carbon Bonds verification, trading and retirement

4. Marketing and community building

We have realized that a crypto community needs to be active, engaged and in constant growth in order to stay healthy. This is an important pillar of investment on top of a marketing lead within the team. Among other things, we have attended several Crypto Conferences creating network and alliances with important crypto and ReFi Actors.

5. Decentralization

One of the challenges faced has been to improve decentralization within the projects. Part of the funds will go to improve decentralization each round.

6. Equipment

In order to experiment, record, experience and iterate on our products we have invested in technology like the Plantsplay device, HD Camera, Meta Oculus Quest 2 and looking to purchase a 360° action cam for content creation within the forest.

State of the art & ongoing projects

We have done so far 3 official expeditions to "El Hual-Hual" forest in which we are working on.

1st Expedition: GPS geolocation and audiovisual material for tokenization of 25 Adult Queules. Here a seedling Queule picture from that date

2nd Expedition: Visit the forest with ReFi friend from Koywe

3rd Expedition: Gather more audiovisual material for detail needs in the 3D modelling of the forest

4rd Expedition: Music of the trees through frequency device

5th Expedition: Big & monumental trees at Lago Caro Patagonia

Through the swamp towards the big forest!

A wild big Koywe Patagónico appears!

The Tokents: Digital assets with ReFi purpose (NOT INTENDED AS ADVERTISING ONLY AS SHOWING AS A MILESTONE)

• Elder ENTS NFT: Georreferenced tokenized Specimens of Endangered Trees.

  • 1st Collection Gomortega Keule - Elder ENT Queule# : Founders Collection

  • Premium Asset of the community

  • Georreferenced tokenized Specimens of real life Critically Endangered Trees.

  • Digital property percentage of the 3D assets built around each tree.

  • Eligible for airdrops and voting power (TBD)

  • Contract verified on the polygon mainnet

  • 25 Queule trees have been tokenized, only 12 Elder Ents Gomortega Keule have been minted.

  Opensea Site

• Production and development of the first WEB3 virtual reality touristic Endangered Forest experience.

We have been developing this project for almost a year, but got delayed in the middle for lack of funds and other inconvenients. We expect to have the first MVP by september available to be experienced in Meta Oculus Quest 2 or similar.

First mock-up video of one of the 3d model replicas of the tokenized trees. {%youtube A2Je4vC5g50 %}

Youtube video link

Advanced 3D model in Unreal Engine 5 of 10 of the 25 tokenized trees.

(Check it Here as a 3D model) (Check Here the rest of the models made)

• ENTS DAPP: Decentralized Proof-of-Tree registering & incentives DAPP & Public Registry Map for Endangered Trees and ecosistemic services

One of the challenges we've faced on our journey is to keep updated on-chain data to verify an Endangered tree is actually alive. With decentralization, smartphones and a well designed DAPP we can connect incentives with tasks on the field to discover, register, content capture, tokenize and give living proof-of-tree for valuable specimen, keeping token holders updated on their collected ENTS aswell as landwoners incetivized to preserve them. (GG19) (First Mock-up)

(First Figma for the V1.0 app in development)

(GG22)

If you want to access our open beta click here:

Android Users: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.entsnap.app

Iphone Users: https://testflight.apple.com/join/pz1MOEgm

Fungible Tokens TBD

• $ENTS DAO Governance Token - Fungible ERC20 to vote in DAO discussions and other ReFi/DeFi applications- TBA

• $ROOTS utility Token - Fungible ERC20 to use within dapp functions and utilities. This Token will be the rewards & payment token within the ENTS DAPP.

Projects in development

Ecosystem treasures: HD Forest native species content (TBA)

Other type of collectible to learn about local ecosystems and can be used to enhance your experience within our upcoming platform.

☸️🌳🌳🌳The Queule 3D virtual Experience🌳🌳🌳

Using Unreal Engine 5 we have modeled so far 10 of the 25 tokenized Queules. The first product that is ready-to-launch from this is the Queule 3D showroom to explore the modeled trees as a virtual experience.

We are developing a Virtual Reality Experience of the Endangered Queule Forest as a product to offer to our holders and also to Scale our ReFi Model.

(Click Here the see the rest of the models made)

☸️🎵🎶🎵Music of the ENTS🎵🎶🎵

Alongside the virtual experience we are recording the frequencies of the endangered trees through a PlantsPlay device (www.plantsplay.com) as the first approach. Our vision is to be able to stream the music of the endangered trees live, so they can produce their own content to help them stay alive.

DeSci projects to be developed

Dendrochronology of longlivedtrees to understand climate change.

With the proper tools and scientific proffesionals measuring the age of longlived trees and its roots can help us understand more about their endangered situation.

Seed bank for old grown trees as premium genetics.

Big trees that have survived so long represent the best specimens among their species. A seed bank to support its regeneration is vital for fostering their reproduction.

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