It is responsible for guaranteeing the conservation, preservation and sustainable use of Arví Park within the framework of nature tourism and the Community Rural Tourism strategy led by the Arví Park Corporation, through pedagogical actions such as learning-doing, environmental and cultural awareness, Compliance with current regulations, actions aimed at supporting cleaner production processes for families and productive units living in the territory and support to School Environmental Projects (PRAES). With the above, it is sought that the new generations identify, value and appropriate the wealth of the spaces that make up the Arví Park. This is developed jointly and articulated to the different entities, institutions, groups and actors of the territory that in an integral way allow achieving the sustainability of the Park and its area of influence.
Next, you can knows the projects of Sustainability of the Environmental and Cultural Patrimony:
Control of the loading capacity of Arví Park
The Arví Park Corporation has implemented a load capacity model, with the purpose of measuring the number of people who can enter the different tourist sites that make up the Arví Park, so that they remain in the best conditions while preserving their physical characteristics and environmental issues.
Environmental awareness to visitors, tourists, and community of influence
There are playful experiences of interpretation that will be incorporated into the daily life of children, young people and adults new patterns of behavior that guarantee the permanence of this place and its natural and cultural wealth while motivating people Conserve and care for all the spaces with which they are interrelated daily.
This process allows the development of creativity, innovation, and sustainable development capacities, as well as the abilities and skills of being in order to relate to nature and to the other, based on the pedagogy that connects them with the environment.
“We can only preserve what we love. And we can only love what we know. ” Tobias Lasser
Monitoring of air quality - Monitoring of particulate matter
Air quality monitoring is done annually, measuring the particulate matter (micro and small particles suspended in the air), which allows establishing a comparison between the concentrations found and the permissible limits determined in Resolution 610 of 2010 Ministry Environment, Housing and Territorial Development.
Air Quality Monitoring - Noise Measurement
Every year, air quality monitoring is carried out where the noise level is determined, in order to verify compliance with the permissible limits determined in Resolution 627 of 2006 of the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development.
Forest Compensation Plan
- Enrichment: carried out in an area of 10.13 ha, with native species, where 7,587 individuals were planted. This activity was carried out in the area of El Salado, specifically in the sectors of La Alzate, where 3,100 individuals were planted; La Marucha, with 3,987 individuals planted; and the area of the park of Guarne, that received the sowing of 500 individuals.
- Restoration of hedges: was carried out in an area of 5.1 ha, which was restored with the sowing of 4,413 individuals of native and exotic species.
Spill monitoring
Each year the monitoring of domestic wastewater, derived from the operation of the Park, is carried out, as required by current national legislation; In order to verify the efficiency of removal of the contamination load, in the same way with this monitoring the systems of treatment of these waters are maintained in optimal conditions guaranteeing that the impact on the receiving water source and the soil is minimized.
Carbon Footprint (Arví Footprint) - Depleting substances of the Ozone Layer
Committed to the environmental policies of the National Government, the Corporation implemented a system to measure the carbon footprint of the operation of the Park, based on the results, to develop projects aimed at reducing or offsetting the emissions generated. In addition, there is a management plan, in accordance with current regulations, for the management of emission sources of ozone-depleting substances.
Monitoring of diversity, plant structure, and soil physical properties
Arví Park Corporation carries out monitoring on the tourist trails, which determine if there are changes in the physical properties of the soil and in the diversity and structure of plant species, derived from the influx of visitors; the results of these studies, guide the actions that are undertaken for the conservation of the territory.
Environmental zoning and multiple analysis of the vegetal coverings of the area under administration
The Corporation monitors the change of vegetation cover as an indicator of the quality of the natural ecosystems present, comparing the conditions that occur before and after the operation of the Arví Park.
Landscape conservation (Cultural heritage - scenic beauty)
Conscious of the importance of landscape conservation, contemplated as landscape beauty, different actions are carried out aimed at recognizing and maintaining landscape resources at a cultural level, from the stories that are woven with the people who inhabit it.
Awareness raising and actions that allow the conservation of the water resource
Conservation and preservation of the material heritage of immovable property
In order to publicize the architectural importance, its beginnings and interventions from history, the Arví Park Corporation develops different events, publications, and activities that allow the dissemination of the material heritage of the territory.
Safeguarding intangible heritage
The recovery and documentation of the oral memory from the strategy of Arví ; the development of tourism products such as: heritage trees, which allows account of history and landscape; The promotion of the traditional cuisine of the village, among other actions, safeguard the knowledge and encourage the rescue of traditions through the know-how, achieving from these actions the permanence of the different cultural manifestations of the territory.
Archaeological Management Plan
The development of the Archeology Management Plan that has been developed jointly with public and private institutions with presence in the territory (EPM, Mayor’s Office, University of Antioquia and Corantioquia), will allow, through the formulation of the same, Conservation, protection and sustainable management of the findings reported for this area declared by the Ministry of Culture as a Property of Cultural Interest of the Nation. Likewise, it will be articulated to a tourism proposal from an archaeological circuit, in such a way that from the experience the visitors and inhabitants know the history and archaeological importance present in the Arví territory.
Implementation of good environmental practices in the office
Committed to sustainability, employees of the Corporation develop processes to raise awareness and strengthen environmental culture in their work spaces and in their daily lives.
Support to environmental groups in the territory
Through activities such as workshops, educational outings, social gatherings, environmental conferences, among others, all of them focused on strengthening the environmental component, Parque Arví Corporation carries out the support and support of environmental groups in Arví territory and its area of influence.
Support in the processes of sensitization and implementation of Sustainable Homes
School Educational Processes for the contextualization within which to do in their territory: Support in the implementation of the PRAE
This project aims to promote awareness and strengthening of environmental culture in students, teachers, and managers of educational institutions located within the territory, according to the School Environmental Projects that have implemented.
Sensitization in Good Environmental Practices - Productive Units (NTS 003) and Sensitize and support the farmers of Arví territory in issues of GAP and BPM
The productive units of the territory where the Arví Park is located and the Arví Market organized groups are supported through training and awareness in Good Environmental Practices (GAP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (BPM) that allow the development of environmental management processes, Advance in achieving the sustainability of the territory, while at the same time giving an account of the Community Rural Tourism strategy that leads the Corporation in its area of influence.
Integral management of solid waste
With the permanent purpose of having a cleaner park, the solid waste generated by visitors and part of the inhabitants is collected, transported, separated and commercialized (recyclable material). Likewise, there is a constant maintenance of clean points and intervention of critical points, incorporating a process of environmental awareness to the community of influence, visitors and tourists, favoring pleasant spaces and promoting the sustainability of the territory.
Handling of special and hazardous waste
Ecological restoration
The Arví Park Corporation is committed to the biodiversity of the territory, so it develops projects oriented to the establishment of native species in both public and private properties, the latter with a strong work of environmental awareness for conservation.
Propagation, conservation of native ornamental species
Training and awareness-raising activities reduce the non-timber harvesting activities of visitors, tourists, and the Arví Park community.
Effective wood burning stoves and stoves
Management Comprehensive Forest Plan Piedras Blancas and La Honda Forests (Arví Park and its area of influence)
We support the actions established in the Integral Forest Management Plan of the Piedras Blancas and La Honda basin, led by EPM as the owner of part of the areas where the Parque Arví project is developed. Within these tasks is the whole process of management of weeds, maintenance of green areas, ecological restoration, forest enrichment, and management of invasive species and reintroduction of ornamental species.
