{"id":54494,"date":"2025-11-20T17:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envol-vert.org\/?post_type=fil_d_actu&p=54494"},"modified":"2025-12-27T21:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T19:39:25","slug":"one-week-in-the-tropical-dry-forest-with-liorah-envol-vert-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"fil_d_actu","link":"https:\/\/envol-vert.org\/en\/fd\/one-week-in-the-tropical-dry-forest-with-liorah-envol-vert-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"One Week in the Tropical Dry Forest with Liorah, Envol Vert Volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"

After seven months of volunteering in Bogot\u00e1 as the Communications Manager for Envol Vert Colombia, Liorah set out to explore and document the projects in Toluviejo and Ovejas, in the department of Sucre, for ten days. <\/span><\/p>\n

On November 10, Liorah arrived on the Caribbean coast, discovering its climate and the coste\u00f1o accent for the first time. The schedule of the visit was dense in order to make the most of the ten days: plot visits, forest visits, participation in the processing of products from the tropical dry forest, biodiversity monitoring, and interviews. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first stop was the municipio of Toluviejo. On the first day, we woke up early to explore the village (vereda) of La Esperanza, meet the participants, and visit several plots. We began with the plot of Mr. Vidal Antonio M\u00e1rquez Correa, which borders the Varsovia hill and La <\/span><\/p>\n

Esperanza lake. He showed us his ecotourism project, his conservation areas where he plants a wide diversity of native tree species, as well as his agroforestry and silvopastoral plots. He also showed us the \u201cCepillito\u201d, from the genus <\/span>Combretum<\/span><\/i>, whose delicious nectar can be sipped. This visit was followed by the viewing of camera-trap results (we saw a tamandua climbing a tree) and by a visit to the plot of Mr. Carmelo F\u00fanez Novoa. <\/span><\/p>\n

On the second day, we took Liorah to discover the village of Coraza: we walked through the entire vereda, passing by the many natural pools, and visited the plots of Ms. Fermina Mar\u00eda Abad and of Mr. Jos\u00e9 de la Cruz Correa, Mr. Luis Puente Barbosa, Mr. Bladimir Pi\u00f1eres Ramos, and Mr. Jaime Rafaelo Tovar Montes. There, Liorah experienced the great hospitality of these rural communities, who welcomed us with tinto and shared meals and conversations. <\/span><\/p>\n

The third day was dedicated to economic alternatives. The women of the AsoJ\u00f3venes association from the village of La Esperanza processed orejero seeds into orejero chips. <\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday, November 14, the exploration of the project in Ovejas began. Liorah accompanied the village of \u2026 in installing camera traps, in collaboration with the Fundaci\u00f3n Natural Unidos por la Conservaci\u00f3n. She then met Ms. \u2026, a true pillar in the implementation of the project in \u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n

Before she left, we took Liorah to visit the Varsovia hill in the municipio of Toluviejo. Accompanied by Mr. Wilson Clemente de Agust\u00edn, we hiked for a few hours on this emblematic hill, a symbol of the struggle for the conservation of the tropical dry forest: limestone extraction threatens the forest, the biodiversity that inhabits it, and the water resources it provides. <\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to discovering the way people work on the Caribbean coast, Liorah also got to experience the volunteers\u2019 life outside of work in Sucre: going to the beach and eating fried fish with patacones, getting around everywhere by motorbike, and spotting monkeys while we bathed in the river in the heart of the tropical dry forest in Colos\u00f3.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":66499,"template":"","fils_d_actu_categ":[1652,1655],"class_list":["post-54494","fil_d_actu","type-fil_d_actu","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fils_d_actu_categ-dry-forest-conservation-program","fils_d_actu_categ-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envol-vert.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fil_d_actu\/54494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envol-vert.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fil_d_actu"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envol-vert.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fil_d_actu"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envol-vert.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fil_d_actu\/54494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envol-vert.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envol-vert.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fils_d_actu_categ","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envol-vert.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fils_d_actu_categ?post=54494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}