Forest Governance delivered four protocols for monitoring and control

The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, received from the hand of director CARDER, Juan Manuel Alvarez Villegas, the four protocols for forest monitoring and control produced the Project Positioning of Forest Governance in Colombia, with the support of the 11 regional autonomous corporations and partner organizations.

"It is the fruit of our work and is a very important in the scheme of legal marketing of timber in Colombia," said Alvarez, who presented the protocols during the Annual Meeting of the Pact for Legal Timber in Colombia, which is part of the National Development Plan.

For your part, Maria Claudia Garcia, Director of Forestry, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of MADS, stressed the importance of these products, with which an administrative issue for implementation, and said: "At this time the country is reporting high rates of illegality, for which we must take into account that Colombia is more than half covered in natural forest area and therefore is potentially a forest economy, and to develop the economic potential of a forest that provides ecosystem services to people and society, we need these tools, essential instruments ".

The director of the CARDER, adding that the project PGFC will now targeting a new phase, to cover the whole country autonomous corporations.

For Ramon Leal, director of Asocars, one of the partners Forest Governance Project, "the challenge is to actually land on the territory that internalization of the responsibility of all the actors in the forest chain."

The Project positioning of Forest Governance in Colombia, is funded by the European Union, and led by the CARDER, in partnership with Corantioquia Corpocaldas, CRC, Codechocó, Corponariño, Corponor, CRQ, Cortolima, Corpourabá, and CVC.