EXECUTIVE SUMMARYClimate change, aggravated by patterns of prolonged droughts and floods, has increased the exposure of vulnerable communities to waters contaminated with pathogens and toxic agents. In the Colombian Amazon basin, a Biosphere Reserve recognized by UNESCO, 300 families from the Ticuna indigenous community face this risk, with their health compromised and their ancestral conservation …
SUMMARYThe Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia is home to the Narakajmanta indigenous community, made up of 500 families, who have been involved in a series of adversities caused by the regional conflict with armed groups. These challenges have directly compromised their secure access to vital resources such as water and energy. The figures …
RESUMEThe biodiversity of the MPA Protected Marine Area: UTRÍA (ID 303549), on the Colombian Pacific coast, it contains high mercury concentrations from illegal gold extraction mining activities in the Atrato and Jurubid River rivers. We locate 208 sources of illegal mining in rivers surrounding the coast, which generate the felling of 16,000ha of mangroves/annuals; and …
This PLAN proposes the promotion of ecotourism in the Colombian Amazon based on integrated water management. The Amazon region is one of the most biodiverse areas in the world, but it is also one of the most threatened due to environmental degradation and lack of water resources. Integrated water management is a comprehensive approach to …
The Caquetá Titi Monkey (Plecturocebus caquetensis) Conservation Project is an effort to protect and preserve this endangered species. The project is made up of several key components, including in situ conservation, education, sustainability and communication. The in situ conservation component focuses on the direct protection of the habitats of the Caquetá titi monkey. This includes …
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Bogota, COLOMBIA, JANUARY 3, 2022 Dear reader: The activities carried out by our organization, COLOMBIA WILD CORPORATION, throughout the year 2022, fill me with pride and joy, at this moment when making the official delivery of our management report detailing the work done by the corporation In colombia. I recognize the …
ABSTRACTThe main objective of this research work is to determine the importance of reforestation on the banks of the Amazon River as an alternative for the mitigation of erosive processes in 36Km2 of humid tropical forests of the Ticuna indigenous territory, in Puerto Nariño-Amazonas; where an environmental problem of landslides in highly deteriorated forests is …
SUMMARYThe action plan presented below is based on the Strategy 2020-2025, Bosques Territorios de Vida, of the government of Colombia, and therefore, is inspired by the vision, general objective, lines of action and measures thereof, adjusting, specifying or adding new specific actions for the regional context. Those actions proposed by the actors who participated in …
SUMMARYThe most optimistic projections of the Sinú parakeet (Pyrrhura subandina) population consider that there are between 15 and 49 specimens, in the Sinú river basin in Colombia. This bird, endemic to Colombia, is on the verge of extinction due to anthropogenic causes: (i) Deforestation of habitats for farming and illegal mining activities. (ii) Traffic, consumption …
This document presents the Institutional Program for the Conservation of the Orinoco Crocodile (2021), which allows us to define within the framework that gives knowledge of the state of the populations of the species, with its current problems, limitations and potentialities, the actions to follow for its recovery and conservation.In fact, from resolution 0676 of …
