A natural approach to reforestation: gold mine

spoils, carbon credits and rural development

Luis Gonzalo Moscoso Higuita

Antioquia, Colombia;

~45,000ha degraded

by gold mining

• >120 native tree species

• Jaguars, sloths, primates

• 1,292ha ~ >150,000USD/year

• Average emissions of 90,000

Colombians

12 years ago Today

Thomas (2014). Gold rush: Forest

devastated by mining is reborn. Nature

511:155

Dipterix oleifera

Pauxi pauxi

“No hemos creado ni inventado nada; hemos

observado con mucha atención y encontrado

cosas que siempre han estado y estarán en

la naturaleza, de la que hacen parte muy

importante los nativos o pobladores de la

región”

“We did not create or invent anything new;

only with much attention we have observed

and applied things that have always been

there in nature, of which the natives

populations are an integral part”

M.Sc. LUIS GONZALO MOSCOSO HIGUITA

CRA 38 N° 9 A 27 Office 203, POBLADOMEDELLÍN-COLOMBIA

OFFICE: +(57 4) 312 85 97MOBILE: +(57) 310 5970556

E-MAIL: moscosoluisgonzalo@yahoo.eswww.forestpa.com.co