Puerto Guzmán and the department of Putumayo will include IRI’s proposals in their Development Plans.
From 2017 to 2022, Putumayo lost more than 63,000 hectares of forest, according to the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM). Despite a slight reduction in deforestation figures, every year the department loses thousands of hectares of forest. To explicitly include in the municipal and departmental Development Plans the seriousness of the problem […]
The governor of Caquetá and the mayors of Cartagena del Chairá, San Vicente del Caguán and Curillo will include IRI-Colombia’s proposals in their development plans.
The conservation of Caquetá’s tropical forests should be a priority for the department. According to Global Forest Watch, in the last two decades it has lost more than 756,000 hectares of forest and for many years the municipalities of San Vicente del Caguán and Cartagena del Chairá, for example, have had the highest deforestation rates. […]
IRI-Colombia works to make tropical forest protection a priority in municipal and departmental development plans
Thanks to the advocacy work of the Inter-Religious Initiative for Tropical Forests in Colombia, the Governor’s Office of Guaviare and the Mayors’ Offices of San José del Guaviare, El Retorno, Calamar and Miraflores have agreed to include forest protection proposals in the environmental component of the Development Plans, which will be valid for four years […]
