Restoring Venezuela's unique Macanao Peninsula dry forest, a critical habitat for the threatened Margarita parrot. We're partnering with local communities to reforest abandoned sand mines by planting 1,000 native trees from community-run nurseries.This project will bring back the forest and empower local stewardship, creating a thriving future for the people and wildlife that call this landscape home.
The tropical dry forest of the Macanao Peninsula is home to a rich biodiversity including the endangered Margarita parrot. It is mainly threatened by authorized sand mining activities that remove the vegetation cover and the topsoil and alter the topography of the terrain, making natural regeneration of these ecosystems almost impossible. Reforesting these sites is a challenging effort, given the arid conditions, highly compacted and rocky soil, and competition with invasive plant species.
Provita implements a dry-habitat restoration program by growing and planting native trees with the local communities of the Macanao Peninsula. We have planted 15850 trees, with a 61% survival rate despite the challenges posed by the environment. Essential to this work, is the management of 8 community led nurseries where we propagate 15 species of native trees. This project will add another 1000 trees to recover 6.7 hectares of degraded and abandoned sand mining plots.
There are still over 200 hectares in need of restoration in the region and we aim to plant another 5,400 trees by 2027. We will advance these efforts to bring back the forest home to the island's rich biodiversity and continue exploring ways to scale up our work. This project is an important step forward in our long term strategic plan for the sustainable management of Macanao's dry forest and increase environmental governance of the local communities.
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