Is collective titling enough to protect forests? Evidence from Afro-descendant communities in the Colombian Pacific region

2020 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 104837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Alejandra Vélez ◽  
Juan Robalino ◽  
Juan Camilo Cardenas ◽  
Andrea Paz ◽  
Eduardo Pacay
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Region ◽  
Descendant Communities ◽  
Colombian Pacific

Is Collective Titling Enough to Protect Forests? Evidence from Afro-Descendant Communities in the Colombian Pacific Region

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Alejandra Velez ◽  
Juan Robalino ◽  
Juan-Camilo Cárdenas ◽  
Andrea Paz ◽  
Eduardo Pacay
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Region ◽  
Descendant Communities ◽  
Colombian Pacific

scholarly journals Traditional Landscape Appropriation of Afro-Descendants and Collective Titling in the Colombian Pacific Region: Lessons for Transformative Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-193
Author(s):  
Mauricio Quintero-Ángel ◽  
Andrés Quintero-Ángel ◽  
Diana M. Mendoza-Salazar ◽  
Sebastian Orjuela-Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Local Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
San Marcos ◽  
Descendant Communities ◽  
Colombian Pacific

AbstractThe Colombian Pacific region is one of the most biodiverse areas in the world, but several anthropic pressures threaten its ecosystems and the ethnic groups who live there. Since the colonial era, the region has experienced two different key strategies of landscape appropriation: (1) diversification of activities in the landscape; and (2) specialisation focusing on a few landscape products. These two strategies fall at opposite ends of a modified continuum over time, including a range of intermediate situations that combine elements of the diversified and specialised strategies. The first strategy is characteristic of Afro-descendant communities, based on harmony with nature and favoring human well-being, while providing multiple ecosystem services and cultural or spiritual values.In this context, this chapter reviews the relationship of Afro-descendants with their environment in the Colombian Pacific region, taking as an example the San Marcos locality. Through interviews with key informants and participant observation, we investigate the productive and extractive practices in San Marcos. Results show that the appropriation strategy combines different sources of income. This denotes a great local ecological knowledge geared to maintenance of biodiversity. Despite Law 70 (1993) stipulating Afro-descendant communities to have guaranteed autonomy and the right to collectively manage their ancestral lands, this socio-ecological production landscape is endangered due to pressures from the dominant society towards conversion to a specialised strategy. Finally, we also analyse “transformative change” in the context of governance of San Marcos. Such change could guide a profound transformation in conservation strategies based on a fundamental reorientation of human values.

scholarly journals Mercury species in fish from a tropical river highly impacted by gold mining at the Colombian Pacific region

Chemosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 264 ◽  
pp. 128478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Salazar-Camacho ◽  
Manuel Salas-Moreno ◽  
Roberth Paternina-Uribe ◽  
José Marrugo-Negrete ◽  
Sergi Díez
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Mercury Species ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Tropical River ◽  
Colombian Pacific

scholarly journals The weevil Dynamis borassi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae) associated with native palms in forests and disturbed areas in Buenaventura, Colombia

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. e7721
Author(s):  
Maria Alejandra Bautista-Giraldo ◽  
Inge Armbrecht ◽  
Aymer Andrés Vásquez-Ordoñez
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Secondary Forests ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Bactris Gasipaes ◽  
Peach Palm ◽  
Free Sample ◽  
Disturbed Areas ◽  
Palm Species ◽  
Administrative Division ◽  
Colombian Pacific

Deforestation produces homogeneous agricultural environments creating an imbalance between herbivores and their hosts. Since 2010, there has been a phytosanitary crisis in the peach palm (or chontaduro), Bactris gasipaes in the Colombian Pacific Region which can be attributed to two species of palm weevils: Rhynchophorus palmarum and Dynamis borassi. It has been proposed that deforestation of native palms, used by these weevils, induces these to find new resources in the peach palm. This study examined the association of these two weevils with native palms near chontaduro crops and how this occurs in two types of habitats. Six secondary forests and six anthropogenically disturbed areas were visited in third administrative division: “corregimientos” 1 and 2 (Zone A) and 7 and 8 (Zone B) in the municipality of Buenaventura. Three 50 x 100 m plots were designated in each zone, all palms with damage being recorded; the sampling was also complemented with a free sample. Twelve palm species distributed into one subfamily and nine generawere identified. A total of 271 unopened inflorescences were examined in Zone A and 501 in Zone B. Only evidence of damage was found in individuals of the “milpesos” palm (Oenocarpus bataua), an economically exploitable species. The proportion of palms affected in terms of habitat was significantly higher in the disturbed habitat. This is the first record that quantifies a high percentage of association between D. borassi and the “milpesos” palm in the Colombian Pacific Region, a phenomenon that could be explained by agroecological hypotheses.

scholarly journals Morphological and phylogenetic characterization of the diversity of the genus Vanilla in the Colombian Pacific region

Lankesteriana ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Hernando Molineros Hurtado ◽  
R. T. González Mina ◽  
J. T. Otero ◽  
N. S. Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Region ◽  
Phylogenetic Characterization ◽  
Colombian Pacific

scholarly journals New records of the Western Rounded Ear Bat, Lophostoma occidentalis (Davis & Carter, 1978) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), from Colombia

Check List ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1513
Author(s):  
Anatoly Marin-Vasquez ◽  
Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves ◽  
Pilar Rivas-Pava ◽  
Hugo Mantilla-Meluk
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Variation ◽  
New Records ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Valle Del Cauca ◽  
Western Portion ◽  
Colombian Pacific

We report new records of the western rounded ear bat Lophostoma occidentalis for the Colombian territory, represented by ten specimens collected on the western portion of the country, in the departments of Cauca, Chocó, and Valle del Cauca, all in the Colombian Pacific Region. The new records of L. occidentalis represent a substantial geographic and ecological extension in the known distribution of this species and corroborate its occurrence in Colombia. In addition, we discuss on the morphological variation of representatives of large Lophostoma species in Colombia.

Potential distribution of main malaria vector species in the endemic Colombian Pacific region

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 861-873
Author(s):  
Yilmar Espinosa‐Vélez ◽  
Mariano Altamiranda‐Saavedra ◽  
Margarita M. Correa
Keyword(s):  
Malaria Vector ◽  
Potential Distribution ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Vector Species ◽  
Colombian Pacific

Approach to an integral valuation of mangrove’s ecosystem services in a marine protected area. Colombian Pacific region

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Maria Rojas ◽  
César Augusto Ruiz–Agudelo ◽  
María Claudia Diazgranados ◽  
Henry Polanco ◽  
Richard Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Colombian Pacific
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