More than 700 campesinos from the municipality of Cartagena del Chairá have started restoring 4,762 hectares (11,767 acres) of degraded rainforest in one of Colombia’s deforestation hotspots. To date, they’ve planted almost a million trees.
Education at the Forefront of South Africa’s Children: Afrika Tikkun celebrates…Upsides of Social Media MarketingMore than 700 campesinos from the municipality of Cartagena del Chairá have started restoring 4,762 hectares of degraded rainforest in one of Colombia’s deforestation hotspots. To date, they’ve planted almost a million trees.
“People have demolished up to the edges of the streams; they have demolished the species-rich salt flats. In summer, there is little water; it is scarce now. There are people who must evacuate their livestock to other farms, which was never before seen in Caquetá,” says Camargo, the community manager and president of the rural village of El Billar, one of the 46 such communities that make up the area known as Cuemaní.
“Since last year, with the national government, we have been working on a strategy to contain deforestation, which seeks to transform active deforestation areas into centers of development for forest economy and biodiversity,” says Maolenmarx Tatiana Garzón, a researcher at SINCHI. “In other words, these forests to serve communities in a sustainable way and that they serve as the source of development.
“ Asojuntas told us that SINCHI had … a project in which we could stop the cutting down and burning of forests. So we met with the most prominent leaders from each community; we started suggesting ideas and everything progressed, from milestone to milestone,” Camargo says. Residents of Cuemaní during a training session on pressing plant samples. Image courtesy of Mónica Peñuela.
The restoration work involved the collaboration of 723 families planting more than 984,000 individual trees and palms, such as achapo or tornillo (They planted about 200 trees per hectare, or about 80 per acre, across 4,762 hectares. Meanwhile, experts held a series of 99 workshops on ecological restoration, conservation, forest governance and agroecological development.
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