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"A new multi-million-dollar conservation initiative in Colombia aims to create
numerous new protected areas and biological corridors across the country,
bringing it closer to meeting long-term climate change prevention goals.
The $245-million project, called Heritage Colombia, will support the creation,
expansion and improvement of 32 million hectares (nearly 80 million acres) of
protected land and marine areas over the next decade, putting the country on
track to meet some of its 30×30 targets years ahead of schedule.
“We’re going to use these resources to provide effective protection, to work
with communities, to work on the development of natural conservation
agreements,” President Iván Duque said during the project’s launch late last
month. “We’re going to include communities in the restoration of territories
that have been affected over time.”
Colombia is an especially important point of focus for conservation efforts, as
the country contains around 10% of the world’s biodiversity across many
different kinds of ecosystems, including 12% of the Amazon rainforest. It’s
also home to the savannahs and forests of the Orinoco, the estuaries and swamps
of the Caribbean coast and the highlands of the Andean mountains."
Via
Future Crunch Aug 5, 2022:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
