The project 'Rio Saldaña – Una cuenca de vida' monitors the quality of this vital resource in the Siquila, Amoyá y Cucuana Rivers, to identify the pressures affecting it, take corrective action to strengthen its care and teach communities to preserve it.

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With the images gathered, researchers will make an analysis of the occupation of ungulates or hoofed mammals, as the tapir, to adapt environmental management measures in the protected area. The camera traps will give clues on the status of this type of fauna usually hunted, for food, by the ethnic groups that live in the protected area.

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Érika Nadachovsky, of the Regional Environmental Authority of Risaralda (Carder), talks of the recuperation of 258 hectares of paramo within Los Nevados National Natural Park, degraded by livestock farming, an initiative of the project ‘Proyecto Páramos Biodiversidad y Recursos Hídricos en los Andes del Norte’, financed by the European Union. Nine thousand native plants were planted, with the aim of restoring original paramo landscapes in part of the ecosystem.

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In Choachí (Cundinamarca) Carlos Ríos, a man of peasant origin, dedicated his farm to the conservation of Atelopus lozanoi, an endemic harlequin frog that disappeared at the beginning of the century and was rediscovered in 2016. WCS joins Parques Nacionales de Colombia to support this conservation effort with monitoring, environmental education and productive projects.  

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WCS Colombia shares the new edition of its newsletter En Terreno.

 

 

It includes an article about the first collectivization of the project “Saldaña River, a basin of life" and details of the SNAPP support for a study about the impact of climate change on land use in the Colombian Orinoco región.

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On August 28^th the final reports of the project "Design and implementation of the monitoring program of Tuparro National Park as a core area of the Biosphere Reserve" were ready. This is the first monitoring program formulated for a nationally protected area, under the framework of adaptive management.

For two years and three months, researchers from the WCS Colombia program, the Institute for Scientific Research Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH) and the Red de Reserva de la Sociedad Civil (Resnatur), worked on the design of the monitoring framework and implementation hereof. Everybody was included, from the team of officials of Tuparro National Park, to the directors of Territorial Orinoquía and the subdirectors of management of the Colombian National Parks authorities.

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Investigadores de WCS y Parques Nacionales Naturales se reunieron con integrantes de la Asociación de Reserva Campesina del Valle del río Cimitarra (ACVC) y habitantes de algunas veredas de los municipios de Remedios y Segovia, en Antioquia, para presentar los avances en el proceso de declaratoria de una nueva área protegida para el país: la serranía de San Lucas.

Los talleres, especialmente dirigidos a los líderes de las Juntas de Acción Comunal y demás personas que vienen siendo partícipes de este proceso, sirvieron como un excelente espacio para aclarar diversos conceptos alrededor de lo que significa la conservación en un área protegida.

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