The project seeks to establish, together with the main local stakeholders, ecological restoration demonstration sites in the buffer zone of the PNCAZ, from which landscape connectivity can be re-established, generating spatially scalable experiences. This connectivity will contribute to the maintenance of natural values and ecological processes within the protected area in the medium and long term, as well as to a better quality of life for the inhabitants. Natural regeneration, exclusion of threats and assisted succession are used to establish these restoration demonstration areas, which will directly benefit some 200 families, all within the framework of the Blue Agreements and as a result of a participatory management strategy of territorial planning through quality of life plans.The aim is to generate a learning community, as well as to strengthen the technical and organizational capacities of the population through field schools, training of trainers, producing tools that will be the basis for adaptive management, appropriation, sustainability and spatial scaling of the model.
- Respect and strengthening of the co-management model in the PNCAZ and the role of the Management Contract Executor (CIMA-Cordillera Azul).
- Local populations are strategic allies and support co-management based on a conservation and development strategy, implemented through sustainable economic activity programs.
- Local populations, based on a conservation and development strategy, perceive the benefits of forest conservation.
- The commitments established between the local populations, CIMA-Cordillera Azul and the PNCAZ through the Blue Agreements are fundamental for the implementation of sustainable activities, among which the restoration project is framed.
- The sustainability of the project is based, among others, on the training of specialized trainers in the design and implementation of restoration strategies and techniques that are organized in educational modules, replicable in new areas. These modules will be adopted in the academic curriculum and/or extension programs of at least one academic institution.
- The strengthening of local populations, as managers of the protected area, is fundamental to guarantee the sustainability of the actions.