PACIFIC COAST

Territorial defense process against the installation of a port in Tribugá:

SIEMBRA accompanies the Los Riscales Community Council and the GICPA in their defense of ethnic territories, local development bets and the protection of marine-coastal ecosystems, which are threatened by the project to install a mega port in the Tribugá Inlet. Within this process, SIEMBRA is part of the articulation space called “Alianza Nuquí”. This process is located in the municipality of Nuquí in the department of Chocó.

Defense of artisanal fishing on the Pacific Coast:

Accompanies the Federation of Artisanal Fisheries Workers (FEDEPESCA) and the Los Delfines Community Council, as part of the Interinstitutional and Community Group for Artisanal Fisheries (GICPA), in the defense of artisanal fishing as part of the social, cultural and economic structure of the Chocoan Pacific Coast.

In particular, the implementation of the ruling derived from a popular action that ordered a series of measures aimed at the protection and promotion of artisanal fishing, and the mitigation of the serious environmental damage generated by industrial fishing in marine ecosystems is being promoted. This process is located in the municipalities of Juradó, Bahía Solano, Nuquí, Bajo Baudó and Litoral del San Juan in the department of Chocó.