The document, which took two years of work, aimed to assess climate-related hazards, demonstrate the vulnerability of communities, ecosystems, biodiversity and livelihoods, and was carried out using information from different sources, such as free databases, information provided by government entities such as the Alexander Von Humboldt Research Institute and IDEAM.
The analysis was carried out in watersheds supplying the Sumapaz, Cordillera de los Picachos, Sierra de la Macarena, Tinigua and Serranía de Chiribiquete National Parks, a landscape of high importance due to the presence of diverse ecosystems ranging from high Andean to Amazonian jungle and ecologically and culturally connected with the presence of indigenous and peasant communities around them.
“It is urgent to develop adaptation strategies, better production practices, conserve water sources and maintain the connectivity of forests so that they continue to provide welfare and health to the fauna, flora and humans that inhabit these landscapes even in a changing climate scenario” says Melisa Abud, Biodiversity and Global Change Officer at WWF Colombia. Having more resilient territories in the face of climate change is one of the objectives of the publication, so that decision makers can take advantage of this information available and with the details at the landscape and protected area level as a support tool to manage and promote better adapted territories.
Original publication: https://www.wwf.org.co/?379117/Territorios-mas-resilientes-y-mejor-adaptados-frente-al-cambio-climatico