Get to know social and environmental projects in Bogota

Last week we visited some charitable foundations, social and environmental projects in Bogota and surroundings. Our goal is to support some of those projects at long term to get more involved with the local community. The spectrum of the projects we visited ranges from the work with very vulnerable parts of the Colombian society to projects of biodiversity and the protection of wildlife. Furthermore we want to give our clients from all over the world the possibility to visit and experience these charitable foundations. These tours can easily be included or added to a City tour in Bogota and for sure will be very interesting encounters.

In the following newsletter we want to present every project we support. Let´s start with an interesting project about biodiversity:

Colombia is one the countries with the highest biodiversity-rates in the world. The aid project from the German "Zoological Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations" that collaborates with Karin Osbahr from the University of Applied and Environmental Sciences (U.D.C.A.) in Bogota tries to prevent the extinction of the Pacarana animal. It is one of the rarest and least known rodent species of South America. The distribution of this last living survivor of the family Dinomyidae is restricted to the Andean region from Bolivia to Venezuela between 1800 and 3200 m. The species is considered as endangered due to the destruction of tropical cloud forest and highland páramo. Visiting the project we got very great insights about the importance of biodiversity and the protection of species and the wildlife conservation.