Climate Action! Support Nature Reserve in Colombia

Dear donors and supporters,

Our two nature reserves, Xieti at Lake Tota, and La Hondura Canyon at river Huertas canyon; are both in progress.

Xieti Nature Reserve has experienced a numer of environmental education interchanges with local schools (click for more), we have accomplished our "1.000 new native trees for 2022" campaign (see news here), a new private ally has decided its support by adopting a 'native tree area', green filter is working well (learn more), and a new "thinking corner" is being prepared in a lovely spot of our site, to enhance opportunities for reflection and project ideas forward.

In turn, La Hondura Canyon Nature Reserve has continued with community conservation activities (mainly trap cameras and biodiversity workshops and practices), Colombian oaks have been planted in nearly our 1.500 units goal, a new small edible forest was planted (learn more), and monitoring biodiversity has continued non stop with 20 camera traps within our reserve, also having some of them shared with our community for monthly perios of time. Its biodiversity is being organized in a new and comprehensive website, for this reserve, it will be reacheable here: clh.fundacionmontecito.org

Thank you all for being supportive of this climate action project, and we invite you to spread the word of it among your groups, family and friends, and to stand in solidarity for more progress to be shared soon.

Kind regards,

Felipe Velasco
Fundación Montecito

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Dear donors and supporters,

We are happy to be sharing with you this news: Xieti Nature Reserve at Lake Tota, has been reviewed, accepted and registered as a new OECM private area in Colombia. OECMs (Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures) are “A geographically defined area other than a Protected Area, which is governed and managed in ways that achieve positive and sustained long-term outcomes for the insitu conservation of biodiversity, with associated ecosystem functions and services and where applicable, cultural, spiritual, socio–economic, and other locally relevant values” (CBD, 2018).

This represents a major outcome for our purposes with our Climate Action project you are supporting here at GlobalGiving, since it clearly introduces one of the two nature reserves we have behind the project as a true highlight in terms of private conservation to deserve being supported. Xieti Nature Reserve has become the first and only OECM private area so far not only within Lake Tota's basin, but in the whole region of Boyacá, the state or department in Colombia where this reserve is located. No matter it is certainly a small area (3.2 Ha) -not compared to the size of our 2nd reserve we are managing as part of this project in La Hondura Canyon with 290 Ha-, this outcome is not really about size but more in regards to commitment to conservation purposes, also as a pilot hopefully to be followed by many more in our region and elsewhere.

Worldwide, OECMs and all protected areas are gathered in one single platform to visibilize those private and public efforts towards conservation, it is called ProtectedPlanet*, and the link to Xieti Nature Reserve in it is reachable here: https://www.protectedplanet.net/555744969

A link within the Xieti Nature Reserve to highlight this outcome, is already visible here: https://xieti.abctota.org/reserva-natural/omec-xieti

Your support to our project is a fundamental motivation to continue and invite others to join these efforts to act against our climate crisis, with positive initiatives related to increasing conservation and enhancing human-nature harmony.

In gratitude,

Felipe Velasco
Fundación Montecito

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