KALIAWIRI REDD+ is a project developed by BIOFIX in partnership with 7 Indigenous Reserves of the Sikuani and Piapoco peoples that seeks to protect 358,000 hectares of forest in a transition zone Orinoco - Amazon, Colombia, which given its physical and climatological conditions make it key for climate regulation, CO2 emissions capture and conservation of biological biodiversity.

Through their territorial autonomy, the Indigenous Reserves: Cali Barranquilla, Concordia, Flores Sombrero, Chocón, Río Siare Barranco Lindo, Saracure Río Cada and Guaco Alto y Bajo, seek to carry out conservation processes framed in sustainability criteria that have to do with the protection of natural forest areas, rescue and protection of their cultural identity and promotion of productive practices that promote the protection of biodiversity and the environmental wealth of their territory.

"This recognition obtained by the KALIAWIRI REDD+ Project, among more than 2,500 applicants, is the result of a joint work with the communities that make it up and is the confirmation of the excellent work in conservation and compensation of CO2 emissions that we are developing in Colombia," says Ana Milena Plata, Manager of BIOFIX.

With an application of more than 2,500 projects in the Americas, KALIAWIRI REDD+ ranked 394th among the top 500 and 23rd in the category of Forests and Flora. This is the third conservation project that ranks among the best in Latin America, under the structuring of BIOFIX, an expert company in the development of nature-based solutions that today leads the structuring of 9 projects in Colombia in partnership with Afro and indigenous communities, and territorial allies.

Among its main characteristics, KALIAWIRI is formulated under the REDD+ methodology, which seeks not only to control and reduce deforestation and forest degradation, but also to promote forest governance, entrepreneurship, gender equality, the rescue of ancestral cultural traditions, and territorial delineation, as well as reforestation and community monitoring; implementation of renewable energies and improvement of communications infrastructure; mobility, health, recreation and technification of the productive processes carried out by the communities for self-sufficiency.

After this recognition granted by Premios Latinoamérica Verde, BIOFIX highlights the work carried out by Flora y Fauna KUMALI'BO, a regional partner that has accompanied the process and has been key in the communication between the communities that make up the project.

All the management developed around this initiative is based on the framework of the voluntary carbon market created in Colombia so that companies subject to carbon tax can apply to the non-taxation of carbon and contribute to the development of the communities that own the largest forested areas in the country, which have the largest forest areas in the country.