“We are the sun, with all the different kinds of light” illustrates ordinary Colombian landowners and communities protecting and restoring ecosystems to reduce global warming; due to government inaction they are taking preservation into their own hands and registering their land as a Nature Reserve of the Civil Society.
This first chapter, El Zoque, is a more recent reserve, founded by Mauricio Restrepo in 2017, in the nearby mountains of Bogota. For El Zoque the community is imperative to the success of the project. The reserves hire locals as guides and educate the community on conservation. They also have a nursery of endemic flora for reforestation. This is just one reserve of an estimated 1200 nature reserves across the country. This is the equivalent of over 142,000 ha of land protected by ordinary citizens.