Colombia

Amazonia Reforestation plants tropical trees for profit, socio-economic development and expanded wildlife habitat in Vichada, Colombia. Investors can participate in this program by buying fast growing tropical trees and sharing in the returns based on a 10 year cycle. We follow a sustainable model with mixed-species cultivation and staggered harvesting and replanting for the maximum benefit of the planet and local wildlife. Our program also seeks to commercialize native tree species that otherwise would be logged from natural forests, by supporting native tree seed collection, nurseries and planting. We believe that biodiverse plantations with modern forestry practices offer the best results for humans and local wildlife alike.

We are an art group that develops projects related to environmental conservation, biodiversity, and promotion of cultural creative proposal and self-sustaining alternatives to awaken from artistics activities for environmental awareness. We work building a virtual network of individuals and groups interested in performing artistics initiatives that promote respect and care for nature in all its forms and to propose different views in solving environmental problems from a playful, expressive and experimental look. We call on artists and people from all disciplines who want to manifest for the planet.

CO2 Tropical Trees is a tropical tree planting program in Vichada, Colombia. Consumers can make their vehicles carbon neutral by planting sufficient tropical trees to balance their car’s CO2 emissions. A tropical tree planted under this program sequesters an average of 50 lbs or 22.6 kg of carbon per year. Trees are planted in plantations and natural reserves, with an emphasis on native tree species where possible for expanded wildlife habitat. This program fights climate change and global warming in a direct and scientifically verifiable manner by not only sequestering carbon, but also by seeding cloud cover. Reducing global warming promotes biodiversity by protecting species endangered by climate change.

Ecodiversity Colombia Fondation is a non-profit organization, designed to work the design and implementation of programs that include research and conservation of biological diversity, ecosystem diversity and cultural diversity with ethnic and socio-economic development. The implementation of the activities of our members is made at a national, regional and local level of the Colombian territory. These programs involve government sectors, academics, scientists and civilians.

Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez is private Colombian non profit organization, created in 2000 under the Bilateral Agreement of the Initiative for the Americas, with the governments of the United States of America. Fondo Acción funds environmental and children’s projects -identified through calls for proposals- designed and implemented by civil society organizations, with the purpose of generating significant and permanent changes in Colombia’s society concerning: a) biodiversity conservation, sustainable and equitable development, and b) childhood protection and developmen.

The Natural Reserve La Pedregoza/Reserva Natural La Pedregoza is dedicated to the conservation of native tree species and the preservation of endangered wildlife. Located on the banks of the Rio el Bita in Vichada, Colombia, this natural reserve has two old growth inundation or riparian forests, as well as two densely treed morichals, which are savannah drainage creeks named after the majestic moriche palms that grace their banks. La Pedregoza, which means Rocky Place in Spanish, is home to a large variety of birds, animals, reptiles, amphibians, aquatic mammals, insects and decorative fish. The founders of this natural reserve, a Canadian family, plan to double its size.

OpEPA is a Colombian non-profit organization, whose mission is to reconnect children and youth with the Earth so that they act in an environmentally sustainable manner. Through this reconnection, children and youth may become agents in reducing environmental degradation and promoting a more sustainable generation of decision makers.

Our educational experiences integrate ecological, social, economic, and cultural aspects, producing attitudes and actions directed to preserve the environment. By means of specific projects and campaigns, OpEPA hopes to act as a catalyst in each individual and increase environmental conscience. OpEPA aims to promote a better understanding and enjoyment of the cultural, ethnic and natural diversity of our world, and to create an awareness of the necessity of preserving this diversity.