Vol. 14 No. 1 (2017): Journal Bioetnia

Our territory, that is, the Chocó Biogeographical region, is understood as a large ecosystem in which physical and biotic elements interact. Water, soil, the species, and communities that comprise it, make up everything we know as natural and social heritage and on which all scientific research efforts are focused, seeking to generate tools that allow knowing its reality, understanding its problems and identify their potential, to plan based on knowledge, a development that fits all this.

This issue of the journal includes various works on the study of these different elements that make up this great ecosystem, without neglecting the approach to the effects of the dynamics of use on their state of conservation.