Bark-Code: Digitizing Forest Management for Family Forest Owners

Bark-Code is a scanning-based solution designed to help small-scale family forest owners(FFOs) track and preserve their woodlands, especially where resources are limited. By generating a digital fingerprint for each trunk based on bark patterns and ridges, it does away with costly physical tags. This approach provides family forest owners with a simpler path to monitoring their trees and tapping into carbon credits, encouraging long-term conservation rather than logging.