Restoration Approach
Restoration approaches include:
- Establishment of forest protected areas/enclosures
- Enrichment planting of native tree species
- Establishment of sustainable silvopasture and agroforestry systems and intensification of existing systems
- Management of invasive species
- Assisted and passive restoration of forests Community-based land management/forestry
- Reconstruction of physical structure of wetland soils
Resources
National Strategy
Ambition Letter
All National Strategy Documents
Map of Areas Susceptible to Restoration Processes
Map of Areas with Restoration Potential
Fondo de Compensación Ambiental
National Restoration Roundtable - Draft Internal Rules and Regulations
National Restoration Roundtable - Action Plan 2019-2021
National Restoration Roundtable - 2018 Annual Report of Activities
National Restoration Roundtable - 2019 Annual Report of Activities
National Restoration Roundtable - 2020 Annual Report of Activities
Related Initiatives
- Bonn Challenge
- Initiative 20x20
- NY Declaration on Forests
Objectives
Colombia joined Initiative 20x20 in 2014 with a pledge made jointly between the Ministry of Environment Sustainable Development (Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, or MADS) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) to restore 1 million ha of degraded land by 2020.
Colombia’s main strategy document for restoration is MADS's 2015 National Restoration Plan: Ecological Restoration, Rehabilitation, and Reclamation of Disturbed Areas (Plan Nacional de Restauración: Restauración Ecológica, Rehabilitación y Recuperación de Áreas Disturbadas, or PNR, in Spanish) The PNR promotes improvement of degraded areas under three approaches – restoration, reclamation, and rehabilitation. These approaches fall within a broad policy framework of biodiversity conservation and adaptation to global changes.
Colombia is also pursuing restoration to boost productivity of its degraded productive landscapes, especially pasture, and improve local livelihoods.
Financing Mechanisms
- The PNR primarily uses existing economic and financial instruments with environmental/conservation-based objectives (Fondo de Compensación Ambiental, Manual de Compensaciones, Fondo Nacional de Regalías, Fondo Nacional Ambiental, Findeter). Priority regional projects may be financed by entities supporting local Development Plans.
- International Cooperation (GEF, IADB, Fondo Cooperativo para el Carbono de los Bosques FCPF, Green Climate Fund).
