About Us
WHO WE ARE
Florestania is an initiative born from the desire to reconnect people with nature, developing sustainable solutions alongside local communities. Through regenerative agriculture, environmental education, and community work,
We seek to create a positive social and ecological impact.
Address urgent local challenges
Florestanía is strategically located at the intersection of the urban and rural areas of Cobija in the Bolivian Amazon to focus its work on building community capacity and the regenerative and sustainable management of the land in order to to address urgent local social and environmental challenges, particularly food security and climate change.
Exponential population growth
Cobija, capital of the Bolivian department of Pando, is experiencing rapid demographic growth, which has caused significant social inequalities, such as a high poverty rate of 30%, child malnutrition of 21% (which represents a high mortality rate of children under five years old) and a staggering 60% unemployment rate, with most of the work being informal. This has culminated in increasing gender gaps in education, employment and social development.
Pressing environmental challenges
Traditional activities such as rubber extraction and Brazil nut collection in rural and forested areas are being encroached upon by the increase in agriculture and livestock farming, causing soil degradation, lack of ecological corridors for wildlife and deforestation. The growing effects of climate change make Cobija very vulnerable to intense droughts, fires, floods and epidemiological outbreaks.
