A natural approach to reforestation: gold mine
spoils, carbon credits and rural development
Luis Gonzalo Moscoso Higuita
Antioquia, Colombia;
~45,000ha degraded
by gold mining
• >120 native tree species
• Jaguars, sloths, primates
• 1,292ha ~ >150,000USD/year
• Average emissions of 90,000
Colombians
12 years ago Today
Thomas (2014). Gold rush: Forest
devastated by mining is reborn. Nature
511:155
Dipterix oleifera
Pauxi pauxi
“No hemos creado ni inventado nada; hemos
observado con mucha atención y encontrado
cosas que siempre han estado y estarán en
la naturaleza, de la que hacen parte muy
importante los nativos o pobladores de la
región”
“We did not create or invent anything new;
only with much attention we have observed
and applied things that have always been
there in nature, of which the natives
populations are an integral part”
M.Sc. LUIS GONZALO MOSCOSO HIGUITA
CRA 38 N° 9 A 27 Office 203, POBLADOMEDELLÍN-COLOMBIA
OFFICE: +(57 4) 312 85 97MOBILE: +(57) 310 5970556
E-MAIL: [email protected]
