CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PRACTICES IN HUMID CLIMATES

Abstract

The National Forest Commission (Comisión Nacional Forestal, CONAFOR) in México provides backing for conservation and restoration in forest matters, participating in the formulation of plans and programs, applying the sustainable forest development policy. The conservation and restoration practices of soils are actions that contribute to decreasing their degradation, primarily erosion, and to increasing water capture, and promote, in addition, payment of workdays in the communities where the studies are performed. The mountain mesophyll forest (MMF) is an ecosystem that presents 19.2 % of degradation (with at least some type of degradation). The CONAFOR also supports carrying out practices to
recover the tree cover. Thus, during the period of 2013 to 2015, a total of 417 projects were performed on a surface of 5,746 hectares in México.