Last updated: May 2025
To protect the Lomas de Primavera from urban pressure and other threats, the Lomas de Primavera Ecological Association has implemented strategies for its conservation. One of the strategies this organisation has promoted is reforestation activities. Working together with the Municipality of Lima and other interested actors, they have sought to expand Lima's green spaces, improve air quality, enhance flora, and promote tourism, among other benefits (1). Lima's Municipality has supported the project by donating 20,000 trees for reforestation and to prevent land encroachment (1), social organisations and environmental activists have joint efforts to plant more than 250 trees to support the conservation efforts (2, 7). The Lomas de Primavera Ecological Association leads the project, organizing community management efforts to conserve the Lomas de Primavera sector. This association is based in the Agrupación Familiar Primavera Lomas de Carabayllo community (2). The association's conservation activities involve collaboration with various stakeholders at different levels. Locally, it works with community leaders and organizations. At the district level, it coordinates with the Carabayllo municipality and the NGO CIDAP to improve urban conditions. The metropolitan-level collaboration includes the Municipality of Lima and the ACR 'Sistema de Lomas de Lima' for ecosystem protection and valorization. Nationally, it partners with MINAM, SERNANP, MINAGRI, UNDP, UCV, and the Network of Peruvian Lomas to enhance ecosystem services, restore degraded areas, and conduct research on the Lomas (2). The preservation and reforestation of these ecosystems is essential, as they have social, cultural and environmental value, including the following ecosystem services: provision of genetic resources, soil formation, pollination, aesthetic services, ecotourism, food, education, and archaeological and historical services (3)
Group of people planting tara in Lomas Primavera
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Overview
Nature-based solution
- Parks and urban forests
- Large urban parks or forests
Key challenges
- Climate action for adaptation, resilience and mitigation (SDG 13)
- Climate change adaptation
- Environmental quality
- Air quality improvement
- Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
- Green space creation and/or management
- Habitat and biodiversity restoration
- Regeneration, land-use and urban development
- Rewilding
- Economic development and employment (SDG 8)
- Tourism support
Principal problems in Functional Urban Area (FUA)
- Environmental Degradation
- Biodiversity loss
- Deforestation and forest degradation
- Land use and Socio-economic change
- Rapid urbanization
- Resource Scarcity and Competition
- Land rights conflicts
Key priorities
Biodiversity (conservation and/or restoration)
Focus
Maintenance and management of urban nature, Maintenance or upgrade of exisiting green spaces (e.g. parks), Urban reforestation, restoration of street trees, Ecological restoration of ecosystems, Soil remediation and revegetation, Ecological restoration of existing green spaces, Restoration and protection of ecosystems (including water ecosystems), Protection of natural ecosystems, Habitat restoration, Habitat conservation
Project objectives
- To strengthen the Loma's ecosystem, recover green spaces, improve the quality of life of the population and prevent encroachment of untouchable land (1)
- To protect the ecosystem in the area, as it lacks green areas and is one of the places where high temperatures are felt the most (1)
- To expand the green frontier of northern Lima (1)
- To improve air quality, increase green spaces, strengthen the flora and promote tourism in the eight hectares of Lomas de Primavera (1)
- Encouraging the maintenance of the ecosystem through the commitment of neighbours to maintain and water the planted trees (1)
- To restore the natural cover and recover the ecosystem services of the Lomas, allowing communities the possibility of generating economic income opportunities and local well-being through these (3)
- To support the efforts of defenders of Las Lomas and learn about the need for the preservation of green spaces in the city (6)
Implementation activities
The Municipality of Lima donated 20,000 trees that will serve to strengthen the ecosystem of the area. According to them, a variety of trees will be delivered gradually, in coordination with the Municipality of Carabayllo and the Asociación Ecológica Lomas de Primavera (1).
Water tanks, a drip irrigation system, and fog catchers will also be installed to support reforestation efforts (1).
Reforestation activities based on the donation of trees would begin in the days following the donation with the initial planting of 300 trees, including tara, papelillo, molle, guaranguay, among other species with low water consumption (1). A group of stakeholders, led by the Lomas de Primavera Ecological Association, carried out an activity in which 150 trees were planted (2).
These reforestation activities are being coordinated with various stakeholders, including Asociación Lomas de Primavera, Serpar - Lima's Municipality, Carabayllo's Municipality, Grupo Scout Los Olivos 44, Facultad de Ingeniería Ambiental de la Universidad Cesar Vallejo, Comando Ecológico Perú (2) and Citizens' Movement on Climate Change (6).
The board of the Ecological Association aimed to plant them by 2022 to reforest degraded areas, as part of what would become the Lomas Restoration Plan (4).
Climate-focused activities
Climate change adaptation:
- Increase urban vegetation cover to reduce urban heat island effect
Biodiversity conservation or restoration-focused activities
Biodiversity restoration:
- Rehabilitate and restore damaged or destroyed ecosystems
- Restore species (native, endangered, or unspecified)
- Restore native species
- Public engagement
Main beneficiaries
- Citizens or community groups
- Marginalized groups: Socio-economically disadvantaged populations (e.g. low-income households, unemployed), Vulnerable populations in disaster-prone areas
Governance
Management set-up
- Led by non-government actors
Type of initiating organisation
- Social enterprise
Participatory approaches/ community involvement
- Co-planning (e.g. stakeholder workshops, focus groups, participatory mapping)
- Joint implementation (e.g. tree planting)
Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project
Asociación Ecológica Lomas de Primavera: Social enterprise that seeks the conservation of the Lomas of Carabayllo through reforestation, cleaning, tourist guidance and awareness-raising activities in the Primavera sector (3). Initiator and developer of reforestation activities (3).
Lima's Municipality and SERPAR: Supporting actors and organisers of reforestation activities, in support of the Ecological Association Lomas de Primavera (1, 2, 3).
Supporting actors in reforestation activities: Los Olivos 44 Scout Group, Faculty of Environmental Engineering of the Cesar Vallejo University, Comando Ecológico Perú (2), environmental activists of the Citizen's Movement against Climate Change (6)
UNDP: through the EbA Lomas programme, has supported reforestation actions through the implementation of a Tara nursery (3)
Carabayllo community: involvement in reforestation programmes to encourage the care of planted trees (1, 2)
Project implemented in response to ...
... an EU policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a national policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a local policy or strategy?
Unknown
Type of enablers
Change agents (individual with major role influence on launching), Other
Financing
Total cost
Unknown
Source(s) of funding
- Unknown
Type of funding
- Unknown
Non-financial contribution
Type of non-financial contribution
- Provision of goods
- Provision of labour
- Provision of expertise
Who provided the non-financial contribution?
- Public authorities (e.g. land, utility services)
- Citizens (e.g. volunteering)
Impacts and Monitoring
Environmental impacts
- Environmental quality
- Improved air quality
- Expected improved air quality
- Green space and habitat
- Increased green space area
- Expected increased green space area
- Increased conservation or restoration of ecosystems
- Expected increased conservation or restoration of ecosystems
- Increased number of species present
- Expected increased number of species present
Economic impacts
- More sustainable tourism
- Expected more sustainable tourism
- Generation of income from NBS
- Expected generation of income from NBS
Socio-cultural impacts
- Social justice and cohesion
- Increased involvement of locals in the management of green spaces
- Achieved increased involvement of locals in the management of green spaces
- Education
- Increased knowledge of locals about local nature
- Achieved increased knowledge of locals about local nature
Type of reported impacts
Presence of formal monitoring system
Yes
Presence of indicators used in reporting
Yes
Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports
No evidence in public records
Availability of a web-based monitoring tool
No evidence in public records
Potential risks of implementation and trade-offs
Other
References
1.
Peruvian Government (2023). Municipalidad de Lima apoya a Lomas de Carabayllo con 20 mil árboles. Accessed on September 16, 2024, [Source link];
2.
Comando Ecológico Perú (2023). REFORESTACION LOMAS DE PRIMAVERA - CARABAYLLO. Accessed on September 16, 2024, [Source link];
3.
Guarniz Aranda, Y.M. (2022). GESTIÓN COMUNITARIA PARA LA CONSERVACIÓN AMBIENTAL EN LIMA METROPOLITANA: ASOCIACIÓN ECOLÓGICA LOMAS DE PRIMAVERA. Accessed on September 16, 2024, [Source link];
4.
Peruvian Health Ministry (n.d.). Estadística Poblacional . Accessed on September 16, 2024, [Source link];
5.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (2020). Planos Estratificados de Lima Metropolitana a Nivel de Manzanas 2020. Accessed on September 16, 2024, [Source link];
6.
Yaranga, M. (2019). Activistas del MOCICC plantaron 100 árboles de Tara en Lomas de Primavera. Accessed on September 16, 2024, [Source link];
7.
Alonso Quispe, C., Solórzano, R. (2021). PROBLEMÁTICA SOCIOAMBIENTAL DE LAS LOMAS . Accessed on September 16, 2024, [Source link];
Tree planting day in Lomas Primavera
Comando Especial Peru
Information about this nature-based solution was collected as part of the Naturescapes project funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No 101084341.