📋 Tender Overview
The Osinfor strengthened its capabilities as part of the accompaniment in this process to compensate for more than 700 thousand soles.In one of the most isolated provinces of the Peruvian Amazon, seven native Purus communities have assumed the commitment to conserve their forests as part of the fines compensation mechanisms that promotes the organism for supervision of forest resources and wildlife (Osinfor), an alternative that allows them to access public and private incentives to boost their sustainable development.
San Marcos, Canta Gallo, El Triunfo, Colombiana, Curanjillo, Cashuera and Santa Rey were sanctioned for committing forest infractions, many of them originated by the ignorance of the regulations or the irregular use of third parties. However, in 2024, their conservation plans were approved, which will allow them to compensate for more than 700 thousand soles in forest fines through specific conservation actions in their own territories.
In total, the seven communities will retain more than 2,500 hectares of forest for a period of five years. At that time, they must carry out activities through their Community Forest Surveillance and Control Committees (CVCFC) and submit annual reports demonstrating the advances in conservation.
The challenge is great, they must meet a series of activities and present their first report in the last months of 2025. From the Osinfor, we are to provide support and technical assistance to our forest users. Marilia del Castillo, coordinator of training of the Subdirectorate of Development of Capacity of the Osinfor.
Comprehensive training for responsible conservation
After a long trip, the Osinfor reached the San Marcos native community, in the Purus province, to strengthen the capacities of the Community Forest Surveillance and Control Committees of the seven native communities regarding fines compensation mechanisms. Likewise, the advances in their conservation plans, the functions of the Surveillance Committee, the elaboration of the Annual Activities Compliance Report, the filling of technical files and the use of the applications my forest and Locus Maps, tools that reinforce community territorial surveillance.
The workshop has been appropriate because we arrived just before the first year of the Plan is completed. We have been able to review together with the surveillance committees the activities to be carried out, guide the preparation of the report and plan the technical accompaniment, said Del Castillo, who also highlighted the support of allied institutions to reinforce work in the territory.
For his part, Artimilio del Aguila Olivera, a member of the Surveillance Committee of the San Marcos Native Community, said: We have learned how to perform patrols through our areas, locate the vertices and prepare the report. We do not want them to deceive us as before. We want to work with the institutions, strengthen our communities and defend our territory. In these five years, the seven communities must work well for our families and for our families of the forest .
The National Service of Natural Protected Areas by the State (Sernanp) - through the Headquarters of the Alto Purus National Park and the Purus Community Reserve -, as well as the Federation of Native Communities of Purus (Feconapu), Das Peru and Eco Purus, also participated in the day. The articulation with these actors was key to strengthening the contents of the workshop and providing comprehensive accompaniment to the communities.
Forest Backpack arrives at the Zapote Native Community
In this journey, the Osinfor forest backpack arrived for the first time to the Zapote native community, of the Madija people, with a participatory and intercultural session in which knowledge about the obligations of users who have qualifying titles and the traceability of the wood to know their legal origin were built. The day was attended by 18 settlers, between men and women.
Although the Zapote native community has a current forest management plan, it is currently not in the use stage. However, the workshop was designed so that its members are informed and prepared to manage their forest resource legally and sustainably when they decide to use it.
Forest nursery: family workshop with gender approach
As part of the affirmative actions promoted by the Osinfor Gender Equity Committee, the Pucallpa Decentralized Office implemented forest nurseries during the workshops in the native communities of San Marcos and Zapote, with the support of communal teachers.
This strategy seeks to facilitate the participation of mothers in training, ensuring an adequate space for the care and learning of their children and boys between 3 and 10 years of age. Thus, 8 children participated in San Marcos and Zapote, 9.
With this initiative we seek to open more spaces so that thes women actively participate and, at the same time, raise awareness among children in the conservation of the environment. It is a family workshop designed to share and learn together, said Carlos Alvarez, Forest and Wildlife Specialist of Osinfor.
With these actions, the Osinfor reaffirms its commitment to inclusive and sustainable forest management, which empowers the native communities and strengthens their role as key allies in the conservation of Amazonian forests.
