Community Participation, carbon offsetting and wetland restoration in the Venezuelan Andean Páramo – A scalable model

With this project, the Fundación Programa Andes Tropicales is developing an efficient model to recover wetlands in the páramo, through reforestation of vegetation cover and corrective management of fragile areas. These actions will be developed in the El Banco páramo and will have a positive impacts on the water potential that nourishes the La Toma sub-basin (Mucuchíes, Mérida State, Venezuela), a significantly populated and agro-productive area.

We rely on community participation, previously sensitized and trained to develop actions identified with carbon offsetting and climate change mitigation. Our project defines a model to be replicated in favor of the Andean páramos: a high mountain biome (2800 – 4800 m), with high biodiversity, rich endemism and the only one of non-volcanic origin in the world.