Tropical dry forest laboratory
Cerrejón and the Humboldt Institute established the first laboratory for investigating this ecosystem in the Colombian Caribbean with a permanent mega-plot for its monitoring. Its objective is to generate information for the management and conservation of the biodiversity of this habitat, one of the most threatened and least studied in Colombia.
This laboratory, which is the only one managed by a private company in Colombia, has an area of 10 hectares where more than 17,000 plants typical of the tropical dry forest were registered. All trees are being marked and duly reported to continue making annual measurements of their growth and productivity.
Cerrejón and the Humboldt Institute established the first laboratory for tropical dry forest research in the Colombian Caribbean.
The laboratory consists of a permanent monitoring mega-plot of 10 hectares.
More than 17,000 typical plants of the Tropical Dry Forest have already been registered and all the trees are marked and duly registered for annual measurements
We now have key information for the management and conservation of the biodiversity of this habitat.
The tropical dry forest is one of the most threatened and least studied in Colombia.
Other projects
Wϋin-Manna Biodiversity Corridor
With the creation of a biodiversity corridor of more than 25,000 hectares protecting the tropical dry forest between the Serranía del Perijá and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, we have preserved a passageway for the transit of endangered species such as the jaguar, which had not been sighted in La Guajira for more than 50 years.
Declaration of Protected Areas
Cerrejón and the Humboldt Institute established the first laboratory for investigating this ecosystem in the Colombian Caribbean with a permanent mega-plot for its monitoring.
