PIANGÜERAS BUENAVENTURA is part of the Latin American Network created at COP16

The event was held in the Green Zone of the COP16 in the Plaza de San Francisco with the presence of the governors of Valle, Choco, representatives of Unesco, CVC, Codechocó, the Mexican Foundation for the Ocean, International Conservation, the Development Bank for Colombia and the Caribbean – CAF and piano from Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Mexico, Costa Rica and Peru.

B-254 Cali, October 25, 2024

In Valle del Cauca, a delicacy from the Pacific Valley of Cauca is called piangüa, but extracting there and other mollusks is an important part of the life of many women in several countries from Mexico to Peru, therefore, as a way to support them and, in the process, protect the mangrove ecosystem, a network of Latin American piangüeras was created.

The event was held in the Green Zone of the COP16 in the Plaza de San Francisco with the presence of the governors of Valle, Choco, representatives of Unesco, CVC, Codechocó, the Mexican Foundation for the Ocean, International Conservation, the Development Bank for Colombia and the Caribbean – CAF and piano from Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Mexico, Costa Rica and Peru.

“All together to strengthen this network of Latin American piangüeras. How are we going to do it? We are going to do environmental education, management, establishing nature tourism routes and not only to be focusing on that great work of removing the piangüera and protecting our mangroves, but also in helping them, in all the social issues they have Cauca we support 60, distributed in five groups,” explained Marco Antonio Suárez Gutiérrez, general director of the CVC.

“What this project does is to establish an international network of women that we are going to support from the bank together with other NGOs so that they have a sustainable extraction, but, above everything, help us preserve the mangrove and make it grow,” said Sergio.

“Well, the truth is that it’s really cool because this is going to be like making these activities that women do a little bit more viral, because it’s an activity that’s going back several years but which is now, with this change, left. as if we were leaving behind and this whole part also goes hand in hand with the importance of mangrove ecosystems and with this increase in seeing how we can the ecosystems to restore ours,” says Estefanía Gutiérrez Hernández, from Oaxaca, Mexico, where women produce the tihinda, another mollusk smaller than the piangüa.

Better marketing channels, a much fairer price for what they do and taking advantage of them to recover the mangrove are part of the goals.