Kaliawiri REDD+ is selected among the 500 best conservation projects in Latin America
KALIAWIRI REDD+ is a project developed by BIOFIX in association with 7 Indigenous Reserves of the Sikuani and Piapoco peoples that seeks to protect 358 thousand hectares of forest in an Orinoco – Amazonas transition zone, Colombia, which given its physical and climatological conditions make it key to the climate regulation, capture of CO2 emissions and conservation of biological biodiversity.
Through their territorial autonomy, the Indigenous Reserves: Cali Barranquilla, Concordia, Flores Sombrero, Chocón, Río Siare Barranco Lindo, Saracure Río Cada and Guaco Alto and Bajo, seek to carry out conservation processes framed in sustainability criteria that must have to do with the protection of natural forest areas, rescue and protection of their cultural identity and promotion of production practices that promote the protection of biodiversity and the environmental wealth of their territory.
After implementing more than 2,500 projects on the American continent, KALIAWIRI REDD+ ranked 394th among the 500 best and 23rd in the Forests and Flora category. This is the third conservation project that is among the best in Latin America, under the structuring of BIOFIX, a company specialized in developing nature-based solutions that today leads the development of 9 projects in Colombia in association with Afro and indigenous communities. and territorial allies.
