Over 120 families residing at the Pichanaki district, located in Chanchamayo province (Junín Region) get ready to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Pui Pui protective forest establishment.
This will be commemorated this Saturday, as confirmed by the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (Sernanp).
Sernanp highlighted the efforts undertaken to develop the base line in order to elaborate the livestock diagnose, which will enable to define the number of beneficiaries, which exist inside the protected natural area.
By April 2015, the locals of the Pichanaki district will be favored through the competing government funding invested in tourism and agroforestry projects.
This will be supported by the program “Sustainable Economic Development and Strategic Administration of Natural Resources” conducted by Sernanp.
It is also supported by the Belgian Technical Cooperation and the project known as: “Prodern Fase II.”
Sernanp indicated this inventory will mark the launching of the promotion of activities developed in the forest, such as cattle farming and potato cultivation in the farming communities: Santa Rosa de Todopampa. Those are identified as the direct beneficiaries in this area.
The importance of this natural protected area in the Junin region was remarked by Sernanp because its hydro-ecosystem has enabled to provide water for the population's consumption.
It has also enabled the development of economic activities such as: agriculture and the supply for the principal hydroelectric plants like Curibamba and Chimay.
The total local population —which gathers 979 families from Chanchamayo, Satipo and Concepción in the Pui Pui Protective Forest and its buffer zone— are supplied water from the hydrographic basin composed of Tulumayo, Huatziroki, Pichanaki and Ipoki rivers.
This originates in the mountain range of Pui Pui, which means means puquio (Spring in Spanish).
Over 200,000 people from the area and its surroundings depend on this resource.
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Published: 1/29/2015