Apoyo para la formulación del Plan de restauración ecológica en la Reserva Natural de la Sociedad Civil "Umbral cultural horizontes"

Abstract

The Eastern Hills are considered the most important ecological and landscape reservoir for the city of Bogotá, considering the wide range of environmental goods and services of regulation, supply, support and of a cultural nature (Diaz et al, 2001). In such a way that lines of action have been defined for the conservation, sustainable use and recovery or restoration of different areas within the forest reserve. Taking into account these approaches, the replacement of exotic plantations has been prioritized, in order to gradually replace the vegetation covers that predominate in the area by patches of native species and representative of Andean ecosystems, reaching a transition of environmental functionalities initially achieved with the establishment from these plantations to hedges that allow diversifying environmental services based on the functional diversity of landscapes typical of native ecosystems. Ecological restoration is one of the multiple strategies defined within forestry, for this reason it seeks to implement techniques that allow the establishment, adaptation and development of plant species in precarious conditions; By means of alternative techniques for the management of soils, water resources and physical threats, the success of the process is achieved in the short, medium and long term. In order to achieve the proposed ecological restoration objectives, we work jointly with the local community to centralize efforts from society, reducing social conflicts based on the construction of a social fabric around the conservation and environmental education of strategic ecosystems for the city ​​of Bogota. This work constitutes technical proposals focused on areas disturbed by different stressors with high regional interest, which allow defining the scope, viability and success of restoration processes with a high scope of replicability in areas with similar conditions, therefore; it is constituted as a pilot for areas of interest of silvicultural management of exotic plantations in the Eastern Hills.