In addition to housing many species, Tinigua also serves as a refuge for wildlife from ecosystems surrounding the park. Tinigua is part of La Macarena Special Management Area (also known by its acronym in Spanish, AMEM), a reserve created in 1989 that also includes three other national natural parks: Cordillera de Los Picachos, Sierra de La Macarena and Sumapaz. And he said maybe that is why only now, when the damage seems irreparable, that all eyes are on this territory. This year, Tinigua took center stage when the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (also known by its acronym in Spanish, Ideam) revealed that the park lost more than 5,600 hectares of its tree cover to deforestation activities in the first three months of 2018.Ĭlavijo, who worked in that national park for 10 years, and served as chief for three of them, believes that Tinigua has never been granted the importance it deserves. “Territories are like books: they can be in front of you, but if you do not read them you will never understand them,” said Juan Carlos Clavijo about Tinigua National Natural Park, one of Colombia’s protected areas located between the municipalities of La Uribe and La Macarena in the Meta region. The park serves as a corridor for animals such as jaguars, mountain lions and brown woolly monkeys. Tinigua Park is the only place in Colombia that connects the Orinoquía, the Andes and the Amazon.The Secretary of Environment of the Colombian region of Meta says that the government and other entities are preparing combat deforestation.Officials worry the situation will worsen in the near future.
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