Organización comunitaria para la conservación de la Amazonía

The Environmental Units for Peace and Social Services (UAPSS), a strategy of the Guaviare government supported by WWF Colombia through the 'Protected Areas and Peace' process, was designed to protect areas of high environmental value, such as Chiribiquete National Natural Park, the largest protected area in the country, encompassing primarily the departments of Guaviare and Caquetá in the Colombian Amazon. But the UAPSS are not physical structures protecting the park, not large walls or fences surrounding it; rather, they are peasant communities that decided to unite and organize themselves to live with dignity and in harmony alongside the protected area, preventing the expansion of the agricultural frontier into it.