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Natura Foundation committed with its mission on conservation and sustainable development, continue supporting several initiatives to address climate change effects, some of them are directed to technological and agriculture alternatives for climate change adaptation, reforestation and restoration of degraded areas, including establishment of gallery forest (which are forests that form as corridors along rivers into landscapes that are otherwise degraded affecting water quality and quantity, among biodiversity lost, reducing the environmental services they provide to local communities), maintenance of reforested plots, among others.
During 2013 Natura works in prioritized areas, such as: Pananama Canal Watershed (Cirí Grande y Trinidad Subwatershed), Chiriquí Viejo and Santa María Watersheds, to begin through our partners the development of conservation site plans in Caisan Subwatershed, specifically in Caisan Microwatershed (Chiriquí Viejo), and in Gallito Mircrowatershed (Located in Bulaba, Santa María Watershed), these initiatives are facilitating participatory processes with local communities and other key stakeholders, with whom is working to identify major pressures for ecosystems and also alternatives to manage and reduce environmental impacts and pressures. These processes will be finished on mid 2014. Complementing are two other projects in progress directed to develop environmental education activities in the same watersheds. At the end of 2013, 7 new projects begun, including projects to reforest degraded soils (eg. conservation and protection of riparian forests of Quebrada Honda subwatershed, located in Ciri Grande to reforest 40 hectares and provide maintenance to another 40 hectares).
Natura continues supporting technically and financially 18 on-going projects in rural communities in sensitive areas, providing: maintenance for 100 hectares reforested in Santa María watershed, reforested and giving maintenance to 170 hectares in the Panama Canal Watershed, and improving life quality in rural families with the construction of 100 ecological stoves in Ciri Grande and Trinidad, Panama Canal Watershed. During 2013, 7 of these projects finished.
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