WCS, in alliance with the Institute of Forest Conservation, Protected Areas and Wildlife (ICF), with the support and supervision of MASTA (Moskitia Asla Takanka - "Unity of La Moskitia"), and at the request of the Indigenous communities, has carried out the process of Prior, Free and Informed Consent, a fundamental step to advance the declaration of Warunta as an Indigenous protected area.
Faced with the serious situation of invasion of their lands and destruction of their forests, the Indigenous peoples in Moskitia and their allies are looking for new mechanisms to conserve their territories that align with their worldview. Warunta, an area that has been proposed for several decades as a potential protected area, can now advance in the process of being declared an Indigenous protected area, thanks to the consent granted by the Miskito people.
This territory, legally titled in the name of the Miskito Indigenous peoples, will have a special protection status in the future, with the support of the Government of Honduras, which recently launched the “Zero Deforestation” campaign to combat the serious situation of open access and ungovernability that has affected the main protected areas of the country, especially in the isolated regions of Moskitia.
