Lack of awareness and poor way to proceed from the good citizens, has the edge of extinction within a few traces of our remaining wetlands. Doing a bit of history remember that there were 50,000 hectares of Bogotá wetlands and today there are only 800.


Faced with this shocking reality Foundation Friends of the Earth opens a new front in defense of these strategic water systems, which among other things serve as a refuge for many species of birds and reptiles, fish, mammals and crustaceans, and wetlands are not only the home of the human inhabitants of the city of Bogotá, also host to many birds each year who have traveled even more than 7,000 kilometers and are increasingly less space and proper conditions to escape the cold and re-energize.


The Foundation of Friends of the planet is aware of what happens to the wetlands of torque, as the works of northern motorway extension can continue injuring the dying ecosystem, was once a large body of water known as the Swamp of Córdoba, today this impoverished and fragmented wetlands Torca Guaymaral and Cordoba, in recent visit by the Foundation Friends of the Earth in the company of students of biology and bird enthusiasts note that the wetland and the channel is choked with garbage Cedritos begins to scheduled a day of relief in this wetland in the garbage were removed drown it, Get Involved, reports in the Tels 256 65 33 - 310 550 256 65