An urgent call to rationality issued by the Director of Corpoguajira, Samuel Lanao Robles, in the face of continuous burning that ends in forest fires and that significantly affects the ecosystem resources of the department.

So far this year, Corpoguajira, has raised awareness among more than 270 people who live especially in rural areas of the 5 prioritized municipalities according to the fires that occurred in the previous period. Every year, Corpoguajira designs a Contingency Plan to assist affected populations with awareness during the continuous dry seasons that occur each year.. The commitment is to raise awareness.

This Plan includes the prioritized areas according to the effects of the immediately previous year., where workshops and environmental education sessions are held that involve the community, the environmental watchdogs, fire brigade, mayorships, civil defense, army, environmental police, Risk and Disaster Management Unit.

Work with principles of social solidarity, Respecting the rights of others and ensuring the care of the environment are the recommendations that engineer Lanao Robles gives to the community in the face of the burdensome situation of overflow burning caused by socolas in Montes de Oca and other points of the Perijá mountain range..

for the first time, The fire occurs at the Maicao intake that threatens to leave citizens without water service., Armando Acevedo pointed out, environmental watchdog of the area and trained by Corpoguajira.

overpopulation, lack of awareness, the socolas threaten to destroy natural reserves such as Montes de Oca in Maicao, which today has more than 300 hectares consumed by flames, according to its inhabitants.

It should be noted that the dry season 2020 started in December 2019 and since that same month, according to the powers given by Colombian regulations, Corpoguajira issued the respective alerts to the mayors and the Risk Management Committees so that they could carry out the relevant prevention actions.; The municipalities have maps of hot spots issued by the Corporation and given this information, the territorial entities must assume the responsibility of preventing and putting out fires and thus avoiding damage to strategic ecosystems, especially those that are a water factory for aqueducts, as is the case of Montes de Oca..

Corpoguajira insists on the call to the community to carry out good agricultural practices, The current conditions of absence of rain and continuous strong winds are a favorable factor for the formation of fires, so maximum care must be taken with the elements that can cause them..