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Monitoreo de la reforestación en las quebradas en el Norte de Quito
Authors: Anita Argüello, Daniel Arboleda, Jonathan Menoscal, Dennis Maldonado, Santiago Urresta

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The Metropolitan District of Quito covers 61.563 has., containing many species of flora andfauna. Accelerated urbanization processes have led to illegal housing and human invasions,putting pressure on existing forests, especially on the slopes of Pichincha and the ravines of thenorthern part of the District. The Metropolitan District of Quito, in its Natural Heritage Policy,prioritizes the integration, connectivity, maintenance, recovery and rehabilitation of naturalareas, to support the District environmental security. Focus is put on reducing the anthropiceffects on the affected ecosystems and natural areas. To reinforce this policy, the Municipalitysigned a contract for the reforestation of eleven ravines in La Delicia. The reforestation wasdone from April to June 2012, on a total of 43 has., with the commitment of planting 37.152plants. To track this process the Municipality planned an initial monitoring to determine thestatus of the reforestation and its impact on the selected ravines. Planted and surviving plantswere counted on each of the eleven ravines, and a compliance of only 5.05% of the plannedreforestation was verified.