The project also aims to determine the deforestation rate in the department.

The highest environmental authority and the Territory Foundation, They have been working together to obtain the formulation, adjustment and adoption of the General Plan for Forest Management and Determination of the Deforestation Rate in La Guajira.

Among the actions that have been implemented through this alliance, The lifting of a general analysis of the physical-biotic aspects stands out, socio-economic and cultural. With the help of the tools of the Geographic Information System, the base cartography has been generated, composed of slope maps, precipitation, living areas, hydrographic basins and indigenous reservations; Additionally, the criteria that were specially defined by the Forest Management Units for the region were consolidated..

This construction process, has generated important data regarding the state of natural forests, which, require specific treatment for recovery and protection.

Other tasks that will be carried out within the framework of the project are: carrying out a study of floristic and dendrological composition in the different vegetation covers of the forest management units; calculate the deforestation rate of the peninsula in recent years 10 years old; create maps of forest cover and active deforestation zones, coarse and fine scale; obtain the definition and zoning of forest management units and establish planning guidelines, inter.