📋 Tender Overview
Forest and Wildlife Control and Wildlife Surveillance Committees were recognized as such 2023.The National Forest and Wildlife Service (Serfor) of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), in coordination with the Matsigenkas Communities Central (Ceconama) and the District Municipality of Megantoni, trained the forest and wildlife custodians of five native communities of the bass Urubamba.
The training day was oriented to the members of the Forest and Wildlife Control and Wildlife Surveillance Committees of the Native Communities of Puerto Huallana, Camisea, New Life, New Light and Ticumpinia - recognized by the SERFOR in the year 2023 -, to the leaders of organizations linked to communal management and to officials of the district municipality of Megantoni.
The surveillance committees are made up of people who are part of the native communities, under the commitment to exercise community observance and care, to prevent illegal logging, unauthorized change in the use of soils, forest fires and other unauthorized activities that affect the integrity of forest heritage and wildlife, existing in the field of their territories.
Therefore, it is a priority to strengthen the capabilities of custodians in issues of forest management and community wildlife; economic and ecological valorization of timber species; prevention and control of forest fires, as well as guide on the procedures required by the transport and legal marketing of forest products that could be part of the productive activities at the communal level.
With these actions, the Forest and Wildlife Technical Administration Cusco del Serfor and the allied institutions seek to strengthen the role of forest custodians and wildlife as key actors for the protection and sustainable use of forest and wildlife resources. In this way, respect for current regulations in the native communities of Bajo Urubamba are promoted; and information about the role of forest ecosystems for the well -being of the Cusco population is offered.
