Bogotá Conservation Corridor, Colombia

Located outside of Bogotá, Colombia, the Chingaza-Sumapaz-Guerrero-Guacheneque Conservation Corridor covers 606,297 hectares and includes 22 municipalities. The area is made up of urban and industrial areas (6.2%), agricultural areas (45.3%) and natural and semi-natural forests and páramos (48.5%). It includes the national parks of Chingaza and Sumapaz and is considered the largest example of intact wetland in the world. The greatest threats to the landscape and biodiversity include desertification, floods and forest fires, all exacerbated by climate change. Additional threats include illegal mining, livestock grazing, urban growth and monoculture agriculture.