Regenerate the social & natural fabric in Oaxaca

Dear friends: we are happy to announce a new phase of our PROJECT REGENERATE THE SOCIAL & NATURAL FABRIC IN OAXACA, which has concentrated in catalyzing regenerative efforts in our demonstration centers El Pedregal and La Mesita. This will certainly continue but now we will be stressing contagion, specially in San Andrés Huayapam, the community that hosts the permaculture center. Huayapam is located in the Southern of the Sierra Juárez, one of Mexico's priority terrestrial regions for conservation, and adjacent to Benito Juárez National Park. With a long history, this Zapotec community safeguards an enormous biocultural heritage, and its territory, along with the rest of the mountain range, plays a key role in water supply and climate regulation for the city of Oaxaca, the state capital. However, today Huayapam faces severe processes of deterioration: fires, forest pests, desiccation, erosion, pollution, and social and economic disintegration—processes that will be exacerbated by global warming. This new phase aims to confront these threats and restore the balance of the hydrosocial cycle through a collaborative effort between the community, its authorities, and civil society organizations. We seek a targeted intervention in the ravines that play a central role in the local and regional water supply.

          Based in El Pedregal, we will be stressing three components: 1) Enriching and revaluing the biosocial knowledge of the community, both traditional and scientific; 2) Intervening in the 12 ravines that descend from the mountains  through regeneration practices that we call slow water: water management, soil conservation, revegetation, permaculture; 3) Strengthening awareness, social participation and education of the inhabitants of Huayapam and its visitors.

Thank you again friends  for all you have done to help this cause that will continue by passing on the good examples.

Links:

• One of our partners site, comunal authority of Huayapam