Serraniagua: Environmental community-based organization

Serraniagua: Environmental community-based organization is rated 3 out of 5 in the category civic & social organization. Read and write reviews about Serraniagua: Environmental community-based organization. The conservation corridor Tatamá – Paraguas connects a National Park in a massif high in the Western Andes with the northern lands of the Serranía de los Paraguas, a carbon fixing vast mosaic: cloud forests of the Tropical Andes Hotspot, a World Heritage Landscape, and the piedmont of the Chocó Hotspot. Serraniagua promotes natural and social connectivities throughout the Tatamá-Paraguas corridor, and has lead the coordination and articulation of a network of 37 Civil Society Nature Reserves, 5 local peasants’ organizations and 20 sustainable farms. Serraniagua raised the funds for buying the land for the creation and community management of the Nature Reserve of Cerro El Inglés (720 ha), now the largest and best-preserved nature reserve in the conservation corridor Tatamá-Paraguas. The organization also bought more recently lands protecting the provision of drinking water for the urban area of El Cairo, creating the nature reserve Galápagos (30 ha). Serraniagua participated, as well, in the process of declaration of the Serranía de Los Paraguas as Important Bird Area, and in the declaration the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia as World Heritage Landscape by UNESCO, strengthening the institutional framework for conservation in the eastern slope of the conservation corridor Tatamá - Paraguas where the local coffee economy develops. Serraniagua has been a local node for sustainable agribusiness, environmental awareness and education in the municipalities of El Cairo (Valle del Cauca) and San José del Palmar (Chocó), developing a local portfolio of 30 environmental plans for educational institutions; fair trade products from appropriate technologies: specialty coffees and products derived from medicinal plants. The organization has also lead the Land Use Plan of El Cairo, and the participatory management of the western buffer zone of Tatamá National Park, San José del Palmar, promoting the sustainable management of priority watersheds by local communities.