CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITYIN THE ABURRA VALLEY,COLOMBIA

María del Pilar Restrepo Deputy Environment Director Metropolitan area of Aburra Valley.

Metropolitan Area of Aburra Valley

In Antioquia

Colombia

In AmericaAntioquia

In Colombia

LocationMETROPOLITAN AREA OF THE ABURRÁ VALLEY

IN THE ABURRA VALLEY

ANTIOQUIA

ABURRA VALLEY

10 municipalities

125 municipalities

INHABITANTS Área Km2

6.534.857

3.866.165 1,157

63,612

CONCENTRATION OF THE POPULATION DepartmentalContext

95% Population living in the urban land

of the 10 munipalities

Are living in Of the total

departmental

land.

Of population in

Antioquia

58,5% 1,8%

Urban land15% 178 km2

Rural land 85% 979 km2

(proyection 2016/

2017 DANE)

“PLAN QUEBRADAS”MANAGEMENT MODEL FOR RECOVERING SUB-

BASINS OF TRIBUTARIES IN THE ABURRÁ MEDELLÍN

RIVER

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ENVIRONMENTAL

SANITATION

PROTECTION, CONSERVATION

AND

REFORESTATION

ENVIRONMENTAL

EDUCATION

TermometerSOWING PLAN

Girardota· 298

· 31.581 Barbosa:· 126· 29.205

Copacabana· 3.236· 12.239

Envigado· 3.816· 18.625

Sabaneta· 72· 64.713

Caldas · 262· 1.823

La Estrella· 113

· 55.840

Itagüí· 851

· 1.174

Medellín·31.177

· 254.348

Bello· 7.135

· 165.797

· URBAN: 47.086· RURAL: 635.345· TOTAL: 682.431· % #PSA: 68,2%

1.000.000

Sponsorship

Citizens sponsorship

Entrepenurial Sponsorship

· Participación de talleres educativos.

· Participación en las jornadas de plantación de los

árboles.

· Acompañamiento y cuidado

· Empresas responsables.

· Programas de responsabilidad social empresarial.

· Plan de Acción Ambiental en empresas.

· Adopción de lotes sembrados para su

mantenimiento por cuatro años.

COMMUNITY TREES STRATEGY

MUNICIPAL•Infraestructure secretariat•Environment secretariat•Planning secretariat

AMVA• Communications• Environmental –

Education and Culture• Forestry engineers )

COMMUNITY•Citizens•J.A.C

ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH POLLINATING

INSECTS IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF THE ABURRÁ VALLEY

• Address cases involving pollinating insects such as bees,wasps, and others, in order to protect biodiversity andreduce the risk, according to competencies as theenvironmental authority in the Metropolitan Area of theAburrá Valley.

In accordance with the law 99 of 1993, which in its article 31defines competences for corporations as environmentalauthority to execute, manage, operate and maintain incoordination with local authorities, research projects,programs of sustainable development and environmentaleducation that are necessary for the defense and protectionof the environment and the renewable natural resources.

CHALLENGES 2019

Education and training: rescue, care,protection and relocation of pollinatinginsects.

Community work: education andtraining

Support to municipalities for theprotection of biodiversity and rescue ofpollinators.Reubicación de especies

Delivery of equipment, supplies, tools.

Institutional work.

NETWORK OF TREATMENT AND CENTER OF ATTENTION AND APPRECIATION OF

WILD FAUNA

• Emergency service hotline

• Wildlife care station

• Emergency atention 24/7

• Wildlife rescue units.

• Final destination of the recovered wildlife

• Releases of wildlife

GENERAL ACTIVITIES

•Reception of fauna from seizures and voluntary deliveries

•Taxonomic classification of individuals admitted.

ANIMALS RECOVERED STATISTICS (CAV)

YEAR INPUTS RE-LOCATED RELEASES SUMPERCENTAGE

(%)

2006 5336 3131 670 3801 6,6

2007 6819 4708 638 5346 9,3

2008 6490 4220 638 4858 8,4

2009 8292 5439 783 6222 10,8

2010 8325 4732 876 5608 9,7

2011 10192 6011 958 6969 12,1

2012 7071 3614 1008 4622 8,0

2013 6472 1807 985 2792 4,9

2014 6252 5617 824 6441 11,2

2015 5400 2054 863 2917 5,1

2016 4903 2291 774 3065 5,3

2018 6282 2098 737 2835 4,9

2018 (15 september)

4895 1520 546 2066 3,6

TOTAL 86729 47242 10300 57542 100

Activities

• Hospital

• Laboratories

• Biology

• Nutrition

• Interdisciplinary team with extensive experience in wildlife: 25 people in total

• Spaces

Small passerines

Macaw parrots Mammals

Clase Quantity %

Spiders 6 0,46

Amphibians 8 0,62

Crustceans 1 0,08

Birds 439 33,90

Mammals 77 5,95

Reptiles 764 59,00

Total 1295 100,00

Releases spices 2016-2018

CONTROL AND MONITORING OF TRAFFIC AND ILLEGAL HOLDINGACTIONS

• Articulation with other authorities- CIFFA,

• Complaint module for the possession,commercialization, hunting and illegaltransport of wild fauna.

• Penalties for affecting the faunisticresource

• Environmental checkpoints and magazineoperatives

• Monitoring the use and exploitation ofwildlife: zoo, museums, aquariums andtransformation Centers (industry)

Coordination and execution of environmental

checkpoints.

MOVILES STATIONERY

INTERINSTITUTIONAL ARTICULATION

• Conservation of urban fauna with emphasison the TitiGris

• Primate Genetic Studies

• Sanitary parameters of parrots and turtles

• Main ecological structure

• Wildlife inventories

• Mammals (Imama)

• Amphibians and Reptiles

• Birds

EDUCATION AND AWARENESS OF WILDLIFE RESPECTAMVA ACTIONS

• Wildlife-free areas in captivity. 17 areas in the Aburrá Valley• Education to different public targets for non-possession of wild fauna in

captivity• Festivals and City Events• Symposia, seminars and workshops• Contribution to local, regional and national policy formulation• Participation in ethics committees of local universities.• Inter-institutional strengthening for the application of national criminal and

environmental regulations• Strengthening ecological connectivity networks• Control of invasive species-Gasteropodos Caracol africana y escargot• Restoration of urban biodiversity

METROPOLITAN GREEN BELT

ECOLOGICAL CONECTIVITY

OUTER BELT

INNER BELT

Metropolitan Regional Natural Park Cerro El Volador (Medellín)Ecological Park Recreation Area Cerro Nutibara (Medellín)

Urban Recreation Area Cerro La Asomadera (Medellín)Recreation Area Piamonte (municipality of Bello)

Declaration of urban Protected Areas – SIMAP implementation

Ecological system structuring of the valley of ABURRÁ BIO 2030 adopted by Metropolitan Agreement No. 013 of 2011

NOMBRE DE LA PRESENTACION

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INVASIVE SPECIES CONTROL

Control Strategies employed

• Routine monitoring of areas identified with the presence

• Permanent communication with the community

• Immediate attention to complaints about the presence of the snail

• Manual Collection

• Awareness and provision of elements to the community for

precaution and control

• Identification

• Destruction (incineration) awareness

Suggested Control Strategies

Establishment of policies at the level of government ormunicipalities to confront the problem by the presence of thesnail, which contemplate:

• Mass Media Awareness

• Training in educational centers on precaution and control

• Monitoring and control Plan for the presence of the snail

• Implementation of control measures: to find a way tobreak the biological cycle of the species and its forms ofpropagation of area censuses with the presence of thesnail

• Manual Collection

• Pruning of areas identified with the presence

• Flamed and applied Malaquisidas in identified areas

• Destruction and incineration of collected material