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 358,000 hectares of forest in a transition zone between the Orinoco and Amazon, Colombia, which given its physical and climatic conditions make it key for climate regulation, CO2 emissions capture and conservation of biological biodiversity.
Through its territorial autonomy, the Indigenous reserves: Cali, Barranquilla, Concordia, Flower Hat, Chocón, River Siare Ravine Cute, Saracure River Each and Guaco High and Low, looking to perform processes of conservation framed in sustainability criteria that have to do with the protection of areas of natural forests, rescue and protection of their cultural identity and promotion of productive practices that aimed for the protection of biodiversity and the richness environmental of its territory.
After an application of more than 2,500 projects in the americas, KALIAWIRI REDD+ was ranked 394 among the top 500, and ranked 23rd in the category of Forests and Flora. This is the third project of conservation that ranks among the best in Latin America, under the structuring of BIOFIX, a company expert in the development of nature-based solutions that today leads the development of 9 projects in Colombia in partnership with communities of african and indigenous allies and territorial.
