As the best protectors of forests and biodiversity empowered and sustainability of their territories, representatives of nine associations and community foundations lookouts environmental department, They signed a memorandum of understanding Conservation Agreements with Cerrejón and Corpoguajira, designed to safeguard ecosystems and strategic species for the region, in seven protected areas department: Protected Forest Reserves (RFP) of Cañaverales and Montes de Oca; and Integrated Management Districts (DMI) Rancheria River Delta, Perija, Lower Rancheria River Basin, Wallows and Musichi.

Strengthening the strategy corresponds to compliance with environmental compensation filed by Corpoguajira to Cerrejón, in which, through the establishment of voluntary agreements with the actors of the territory, preservation is achieved, use and integrated management of natural resources, and the protection of forest species ban, as the Heart Fino, Guayacan Ball, Puy and Mono Ollita more than 350 hectares, mainly dry tropical forest, one of the most strategic and threatened ecosystems in the region.

"We emphasize this public alliance – private partnership between Corpoguajira, Cerrejón and the communities that are settled in the area of ​​influence of our protected areas, which is, also, a partnership for life, the natural wealth. Today we see an empowered community, its actions leading to conservation and this is the product of private enterprise contribute and provide resources to these partnerships between communities and institutions are strengthened ", said Luis Medina Toro, director of Corpoguajira.

Similarly, José Vicente Cotes Ipuana, legal representative of the Foundation said Aimaajushi: "The agreement we signed today is an agreement that will allow us to work articulately. For us to get involved in this as much as the Government, the town, the Corporation and others who are concerned with the care of the environment is very important, because who else we Indians we feel our mother nature is running out for so many things that people do that is not in the territory to be involved and to respect our mother earth ".

The above, It articulates with the national strategy of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Guardians of Environment and Peace, in which the preservation and conservation of forests by communities is promoted and peoples that inhabit, avoiding actions such as deforestation, fires and illegal hunting of species.

What unites us is to work for the protection and care of our ecosystems, empowering actors in the territory and generating synergies aimed to make our environment, one sustainable for our current generation and future.