Diagnóstico ambiental del "Bosque Protector Proyecto Ecológico Chiriboga" hacia la inclusión al Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas del Ecuador (SNAP) y propuesta de estrategias de conservación

Abstract

The Foundation Ecological Project Chiriboga thinks about how to incorporate its property located in the parish of Alluriquín, province of Santo Domingo from the Tsachilas, into the National System of Protected Areas, subsystem Private Protected Areas, by means of the environmental diagnosis of the water resources and edaphic. Preliminary examinations and criteria for the selection of points of sampling, were important for the securing of secondary information, information in-situ, planning of water sampling, which later they were analyzed in laboratory. Obtaining water quality information, as: biochemical oxygen demand, total coliforms, between others; also the sub-samples compilation in the pastures areas, secondary forest and primary forest, they made possible the evaluation of the general conditions inside every area, with its respective comparison with the national regulation, Book VI of the TULSMA, Annex 1 Norms of Environmental Quality and the Annex 2 Norms of Environmental Quality of the Soil Resource. The water resource in general complied with the TULSMA, except the gorge “Puerto Alegre“ that is little contaminated; while the soil resource in the areas of primary and secondary forest, the criteria are acceptable, but the pastures areas present an organic matter contribution for the interaction with the existing cattle.