NaturaTech LAC is supporting the activation of the "Community Learning Territory in Nuquí."
This effort is carried out alongside multiple local leaders—including the local community council, scientists, and grassroots community initiatives—featuring the renowned environmental activist Josefina Klinger, founder of the NGO Mano Cambiada.
This initiative adopts an ecosystemic, biocultural, and territorial approach to strengthen biodiversity conservation at the local level. By centering community leadership and participation, the project aims to build a shared vision and implement systemic interventions guided by that vision. These interventions are rooted in the territory and leverage a regenerative justice framework—multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder, multi-scalar, multidimensional, and spanning multiple timeframes.
Nuquí: An Innovative Territorial Development Model
Nuquí, as a Community Learning Territory, is a groundbreaking model for territorial development that integrates technological, biocultural, environmental, economic, political, and cultural dimensions through an ecosystemic and regenerative lens. From a multi-scalar perspective, this project addresses:
Conservation of the whale corridor
Community-driven bio-entrepreneurship
Territorial governance
Policy innovation
Its multidimensional nature brings together nature-based solutions, emerging technologies (such as dMRV for biological monitoring), and hybrid financing models. These solutions focus on key umbrella species, like humpback whales that migrate annually to the Gulf of Tribugá, and strategic ecosystems such as mangroves, to develop new financial mechanisms.
As a multi-stakeholder effort, Nuquí is built with the active participation of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities, scientists, community collectives, policymakers, and the private sector. However, a strong focus is placed on younger generations, creating a living laboratory for learning and territorial transformation.
Aligned with the Theory of Change of Naturatech LAC, this project redefines the relationship between biodiversity, development, and community well-being, establishing a global reference for socio-environmental innovation.
