Forests for Life

Iniciativa que rescata bosques andinos en Chile ha sido reconocida como modelo emblemático por la ONU y premiada por el Príncipe William. Soy Tv, conversó con Juan Ignacio Boudon, Presidente de la Fundación Bosques y Vida, quién profundizó en el rol que están llevando a cabo en nuestro país y su compromiso con el medio ambiente.

For his efforts, Constantino Aucca has been named Champion of the Earth in the Inspiration and Action category, the United Nations' highest environmental award. Constantino Aucca has dedicated the last 30 years to conservation and leads local communities in an effort to protect forests in South America, which are critical to combating climate change and are home to unique species of plants and animals.

The United Nations has recognized Acción Andina as a nature-based solution to climate change. We are dedicated to making the United Nations Decade for Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 all that it can be.

Polylepis forests, growing at altitudes up to 5,000 meters, comprising 28 recognized species of shrubs and trees endemic to the mid-elevation and high-elevation regions of the tropical Andes, are an important source of headwater flow. from the Amazon. Crucial in combating climate change, they absorb haze from clouds, transforming dry, eroded landscapes into wetlands and habitat for threatened species. Due to decades of deforestation for firewood and grazing, only 500,000 hectares remain in the Andes. Now high Andean communities, mainly Quechua-speaking descendants of the Incas, are coming together to bring them back and restore their watersheds.