Wϋin-Manna Biodiversity Corridor
We protect the tropical dry forest by creating a biodiversity corridor of more than 25,000 hectares between the Serranía del Perijá and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. We have preserved a passageway to the transit of endangered species such as the jaguar, which had not been seen in La Guajira for more than 50 years.
We have contributed 9% of the Colombian State's goal to restore 260,000 hectares of tropical dry forest over the next ten years with this effort. We have also contributed to the protection of threatened and endangered species such as the verawood, black sapote, perehuetano, monkey pot, raintree, garcero, and wildlife such as the military macaw, the vermilion cardinal, the neotropical otter, and the white-tailed deer.
The strengthening of the corridor in areas internal to and surrounding the mine is carried out together with neighboring communities, which have been trained in creating community nurseries and seedling production and carrying out their production activities sustainably.
The biological corridor is a passageway for the transit of various species.
It allows us to contribute 9% of the goal of the Colombian State to restore 260,000 hectares of Tropical Dry Forest in the next 10 years.
We support the protection of threatened and endangered species.
The strengthening of the corridor in internal areas and surrounding the mine is carried out by the hand of neighboring communities.
Today these communities have the knowledge to carry out their productive activities in a sustainable way.
Other projects
Declaration of Protected Areas
At Cerrejón, we are committed to undertaking our operations in an environmentally friendly way, and we have validated this policy by interacting with different ecosystems responsibly both at the Mine and Puerto Bolívar.
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.
