A historic agreement for the protection of the Santurbn was achieved in where communities in the municipality, which opposed the delimitation, agreed to begin a mining formalization to protect the ecosystem.
Among the agreed points were determined to strengthen territorial governance, the conservation of moor areas and the management around the water, in search of a great social agreement between government and community.
The formalization of small, clean-producing small family mining will also be initiated in California in order advance the solution of the informal mining problem that affects water quality in the region.
This is a message so that we do not lose sight of that the central axis that we want to be the guide of the next steps, is to order the territory around the water and this is part of the processes of the forest areas and the paramos areas, because precisely the moor collects the transition strip, such as the moor forest and above the area of moor itself, said an official of the Ministry of the Environment.
In the California area, the multinational Minesa has existing mining titles. This must be an issue to be resolved by the national Government at upcoming meetings.
The communities of the municipalities of Vetas, Tona and Surat, in 2023, signed agreements to delimit the Santurbn moor in their territories.