📋 Tender Overview
Vice Minister Raquel Soto met with authorities from that region and representatives of competent entities to evaluate progress in sectoral projects.The Deputy Minister of Strategic Development of the Natural Resources of the Ministry of Environment (Minam), Raquel Soto, reported that this sector is executing different interventions to protect the dry forests of the north coast of Peru and ensure the sustainable use of the natural resources of those ecosystems, in favor of local communities.
In that sense, he maintained meetings with the regional authorities, with the Forest Dry Project team, representatives of Sernanp and other institutions involved to strengthen coordination and advance in the conservation and restoration actions of said ecosystem.
Vice Minister Raquel Soto highlighted the sectorial initiatives to boost the sustainable development of the Piura region. In that context, he said that the GEF project Sustainable management and restoration of the dry forest on the north coast of Peru is being executed. He mentioned that, in 2024, around $ 267 300 was invested to strengthen the regional conservation system and the update of the regional biological diversity strategy, among other aspects.
The populations recovery project of the Andean Tapir species in the provinces of Ayabaca and Huancabamba, of Piura; and San Ignacio and Jaen, from Cajamarca. This with an approximate amount of S/ 11 300 000.
Likewise, the regional project Save the Blue 5-Regional Development for the Protection of the Megafauna Migratory Marine in the Southeast Pacific Region is in execution, to improve the conservation and survival of the species of MEGAFAUNA MARINA on their migratory routes, in the national reserves of Grau and Illescas. To do this, there is an investment of EUR 1,900,000.
In this region, the populations recovery project of the species Pava Aliblanca in the provinces of Morropon and Huancabamba is also being developed. This also covers some provinces of Cajamarca and Lambayeque. The total investment amounts to more than S/ 3 300 000. For this year it has been scheduled to implement environmental education strategies.
The Piura region houses the largest extension of dry forest on the North Peruvian coast. Of the 114 peasant communities that inhabit this ecosystem, 94 are from Piura, 16 of Lambayeque and 4 of freedom, which sustainably take advantage of the natural resources of this ecosystem.
