Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) was created in 2016 in Madre de Dios, Peru in partnership with international donors (USAID and WWF). CINCIA is a consortium of national and sub-national institutions and organizations that focuses on reforesting land degraded by extensive mining.
Artisanal and small scale mining (ASGM) has emerged as a significant threat for tropical forest conservation,and is currently one of the primary drivers of deforestation in Andes-Amazon region and across the Greater Amazon Basin/Guiana Shield. Due to a boom of uncontrolled ASGM over the past decade, Madre de Dios has become the epicenter of deforestation and ecosystem mercury contamination in the Peruvian Amazon.
The CINCIA project was developed to generate the scientific knowledge and practical experience essential to advance efforts to restore these highly degraded landscapes in Peru and other countries in South America.
CINCIA’s goal is to generate and communicate scientific knowledge on landscape restoration on tropical lands impacted by ASGM. CINCIA’s research programs aim to develop new frameworks for tropical forest ecosystem restoration/remediation through a region-scale research effort that explores the magnitude and dynamics of degradation of soils, subsurface water and vegetation in impacted landscapes. CINCIA also looks to increase the number of native species that can be used for reforestation projects in these areas.
CINCIA has led innovative technical capacity-building for remediation and restoration in Madre de Dios. Since starting operations in 2016, CINCIA has developed the first dedicated environmental mercury chemistry laboratory in Peru, a multi-model biochar research facility that examines how biochar could be used for soil enhancement, a drone research unit for forest mapping, a state of the art, mechanized tree nursery for seedling propagation, and a 30-hectare network of experimental reforestation plots across Madre de Dios that explore the potential of 60 native tropical tree species for reforestation.
CINCIA can serve as a resource for scientific research and capacity-building on environmental remediation and forest restoration for the Initiative 20x20 network. As appropriate, CINCIA specialists can act as technical advisors on projects in countries that are developing remediation, rehabilitation, and/or restoration plans in areas degraded by ASGM and other land uses.
Country
Peru
Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) was created in 2016 in Madre de Dios, Peru in partnership with international donors (USAID and WWF). CINCIA is a consortium of national and sub-national institutions and organizations that focuses on reforesting land degraded by extensive mining.
Artisanal and small scale mining (ASGM) has emerged as a significant threat for tropical forest conservation,and is currently one of the primary drivers of deforestation in Andes-Amazon region and across the Greater Amazon Basin/Guiana Shield. Due to a boom of uncontrolled ASGM over the past decade, Madre de Dios has become the epicenter of deforestation and ecosystem mercury contamination in the Peruvian Amazon.
The CINCIA project was developed to generate the scientific knowledge and practical experience essential to advance efforts to restore these highly degraded landscapes in Peru and other countries in South America.
CINCIA’s goal is to generate and communicate scientific knowledge on landscape restoration on tropical lands impacted by ASGM. CINCIA’s research programs aim to develop new frameworks for tropical forest ecosystem restoration/remediation through a region-scale research effort that explores the magnitude and dynamics of degradation of soils, subsurface water and vegetation in impacted landscapes. CINCIA also looks to increase the number of native species that can be used for reforestation projects in these areas.
CINCIA has led innovative technical capacity-building for remediation and restoration in Madre de Dios. Since starting operations in 2016, CINCIA has developed the first dedicated environmental mercury chemistry laboratory in Peru, a multi-model biochar research facility that examines how biochar could be used for soil enhancement, a drone research unit for forest mapping, a state of the art, mechanized tree nursery for seedling propagation, and a 30-hectare network of experimental reforestation plots across Madre de Dios that explore the potential of 60 native tropical tree species for reforestation.
CINCIA can serve as a resource for scientific research and capacity-building on environmental remediation and forest restoration for the Initiative 20x20 network. As appropriate, CINCIA specialists can act as technical advisors on projects in countries that are developing remediation, rehabilitation, and/or restoration plans in areas degraded by ASGM and other land uses.
Country
Peru
