Tropical Native Species Reforestation Information Clearinghouse (TRIC)

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Projects

• Awacachi Biological Corridor Reforestation
• Bogota Conservation Corridor
• Clean Development Mechanism - Reforestation projects, San Nicholas and Chinchina, Colombia
• Cloudbridge Reforestation Project
• Corporacion Regional Antioquia - SINA II (Regional Corporation of Antioquia - National Environmental System - Forest restoration projects)
• Cuenca del Río Guacha – Fundacion Natura (Rio Guacha watershed - Fundacion Natura, Colombia)
• Face The Future/ Profafor Reforestation Project
• Facilitation in areas of Gorse invasion, Chisaca, Colombia
• Fondo de Agua de Quito - Quito's Water Fund
• Fundacion Ecohomonde - Forest restoration, Azogues, Ecuador
• Laguna Pedro Palo - Reserva Tenasuca, Colombia
• OI Peldar Mina de arena, Zipaquira, Colombia (OI Peldar Sand Mine, Zipaquira, Colombia)
• Procuenca-FAO Project
• Profafor Reforestation - Nono, Ecuador
• Reforestation Sierra Piura
• Reforestation on Ometepe Island
• Reserva Encenillo, Fundacion Natura, Colombia
• Reserva comunal de los bosques de Polylepis de la Cordillera de Vilcanota (The Vilcanota Projecta)
• Restoration of the Cerros Orientales de Bogota - Jardin Botanico de Bogota
• Rio Bogota - Fundacion al verde vivo
• Estrategias para la restauración ecológica del bosque altoandino. El caso de la reserva municipal de Cogua. (Strategies for the ecological restoration of the high Andean forest - the case of the municipal reserve of Cogua)
• WeForest, Mount Kenya Reforestation

Species

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