Análisis de la transformación social y ambiental de las zonas de reserva Majuy y Juaica en el contexto de la Ciudad Región

Abstract

The excessive way in which humanity continues to manage non-renewable resources and the lack of scruples of the exploiting companies in compensating the exploitation areas, results in the environmental deterioration of ecosystems that, although they resist reluctantly, the impact exceeds their response capabilities, weakening, unbalancing or destroying these ecosystems.

The late commitment of humanity to the protection of the environment in the last century has evidently resulted in the absurd destruction that industrialization caused and continues to damage the planet. The vision of a healthy planet is ironic, contrasted with the exponential creation of materials based on petroleum derivatives, with incredible functional properties, but with perpetual processing. The daily pollution of bodies of water in large and small cities and the amount of solid waste that is generated as a result of high human consumption is absurd since, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), in the The world generates 2000 million tons of urban solid waste each year, 45% of which is not managed properly, being deposited in landfills or open dumps. (United Nations. UN News, 2023) Humanity, in its desire for modernization and ambition for comfort, relates nature with backwardness, seeing it only as a resource for exploitation (wood, stone aggregates, rubber), undervaluing the benefit that it represents for communities to have healthy ecosystems and forests, water sources. cleanliness, animal protection areas, air quality, among others. Thus, people appropriate protected land, creating settlements in forested areas, which strongly impact the ecosystem environment, generating a chain of changes at a social and environmental level that culminate in the deterioration of the fauna and flora of the sector. The main objective of this document is to study the environmental importance of the Cerro Majuy and Cerro Juaica forest reserves and to analyze, through a multi-temporal analysis, the impacts that the forest reserves have had, due to population growth and the anthropic activities carried out in the municipalities of the Central Sabana, which border the reserves, these being Cota, Chía, Tenjo and Tabio, to finally consider the challenges, advantages and disadvantages of the formation of the Bogotá – Cundinamarca Metropolitan Region with its recent legislative act.