📋 Tender Overview
With the leadership of the Regional Government of Loreto, through the Regional Management of the Environment, and the impulse of the indigenous communities of the Putumayo medium, the Regional Conservation Area (ACR) was established by Putumayo-Algodon, which will protect more than 283 thousand hectares of forests at the border between Peru and Colombia. This initiative represents an important step to ensure the well -being of local populations and preserve a very high ecological value for the country and the planet.
The creation of this new ACR is specified after more than ten years of joint effort between the regional government, indigenous communities and allied organizations. In total, more than 5,000 people from 16 communities of the Murui peoples (Huitoto), Yagua, Ocaina, Kukama-Kukamiria, Kichwa, Maijuna and Bora, will benefit directly with this measure, which guarantees the access and sustainable use of the natural resources of their territories.
This area is considered a world biodiversity epicenter. It houses seven types of forests, more than 3000 species of plants and an abundant fauna, where emblematic species such as the jaguar, the pink dolphin, the river wolf and the choro monkey, all threatened by deforestation and illegal activity. Its conservation also ensures the provision of clean water, food and key resources for the daily life of its inhabitants.
The economy of local families depends largely on the forest, fishing and agriculture. Activities such as the commercialization of Paiche and Arahuana allow to cover essential needs such as health, transport, tools or food. With this new ACR, it is estimated to avoid deforestation of about 46 thousand hectares in the next 20 years, contributing significantly to national climate action.
This area is part of the biological and cultural corridor of Putumayo, a binational initiative that connects protected areas and indigenous territories between Peru and Colombia, and that reinforces the conservation of one of the richest Amazonian landscapes in cultural and biological diversity.
The establishment of the ACR had the technical support of Sernanp and the Minam, as well as the support of allies such as the Institute of the Common Good (IBC), the Peruvian Society of Environmental Law (SPDA), International Conservation Peru, Bezos Earth Fund, Andes Amazon Fund and Re: Wild. From the regional government of Loreto, these actions that place the Amazon are developed continuously in the center of the countrys environmental agenda.
