BioResilience – Colombia

In category: Páramo Monquentiva


BioResilience Positive Impact in the Tropical Andean Forests of Colombia

Monica Amador-Jimenez & Naomi Millner  The positive impact of  BioResilience on the forest communities of the High Andes of Colombia  in Monquentiva and in the Tropical Andean Forest in Quinchas between 2019-2022.   IMPACT IN MONQUENTIVA Socialization of results of the  socio-cultural component. July 2021. Picture with the Communal Leaders of the Village of Monquentiva.  […]


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Translating Páramo: Historical and Scientific Practices Making Páramos in the Eastern Andes of Colombia.

Mónica Amador-Jiménez & Daniel Tarazona Páramos are high-altitude ecosystems typical of the Neotropics. In the Andes, they are located above the Andean forest strip (Rangel-Ch, 2000) at altitudes between 3400 m.a.s.l. and up to 5000 m.a.s.l. In the northern part of the Andes, the inferior limits of these ecosystems are considered to be between 2800 […]


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Commoning to face COVID19, the experience of the Monquentiva Páramo Community

Mónica Amador Research Associate, University of Bristol In this blog, we are going to talk about how the inhabitants of the high Andean forests in the eastern mountain range of Colombia have experienced and faced the Covid-19 health crisis. Regarding this experience, we will reflect on the notion of commoning, a discussion that has gained […]


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Covid19 in the Inter-Andean Forests of Colombia

Mónica Amador-Jiménez and Naomi Millner In this blog post, we want to zoom in on the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown restrictions have had on forests and populations at different altitudinal gradients in the eastern Andean forest of Colombia. We will in this text concentrate on two areas along with the central-eastern […]


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Páramo de Monquentiva: Introducing the field sites from the SocioCultural Component

By Monica Amador, with Naomi Millner   Parque Natural Regional Vista Hermosa de Monquentiva Vereda Monquentiva – Guatavita   Type of forest: Paramo and High Andean Mountains Inhabitants: 200 approximately   The Sociocultural Component of the BioResilience project aims to explore and analyze the human practices that have historically participated in the transformation of the […]


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