ArgentinaDrought
Restoration of native highland forests (Polylepis australis) as a strategy for adaptation to drought and protection of hydrological basins in the mountains of Córdoba, Argentina
In the mountains of Córdoba (Argentina), the loss of high-altitude native tabaquillo (Polylepis australis) forests degraded the basins that supply water to 80% of the provincial population. Bosques de Agua, a project led by youth, reforests and restores these forests in the Pampa de Achala Water Reserve to recover soil water regulation in the face of increasingly extreme and frequent droughts. He has already planted 450,000 tabaquillos and incorporated 209 hectares into a nature reserve.
- Measure
- Water
- Territory
- Dry Chaco
- Youth participation
- The initiative was created in 2021 by Juan Manuel Martín (32 years old) and Juan Pablo Moretto (29 years old) and a large part of the more than 700 volunteers who participated in planting and nursery days are young people and students who individually joined the organization's open calls.