The Yoro Biological Corridor (YBC) is an initiative to link eight Honduran forest parks threatened by conventional coffee production. It’s also the first forest corridor in Honduras to submit for legal protection, which will make it the first officially protected biological corridor in Central America.
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The Yoro Model in support of the Yoro Biological Corridor involves:
Clean, renewable Solar-Dried Coffee Processing linked with Integrated Open Canopy™ agro-forestry; and the creation of a carbon trading program to conserve and restore forest habitat on private lands throughout the corridor.
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Biological Corridor:
A territorial planning unit composed of legally protected natural areas and a connection area between them, which provides a set of environmental goods and services, and provides spaces for social agreement to promote investment in the conservation, management and sustainable use of natural resources and biodiversity, in order to contribute to improving the quality of life of its inhabitants without undermining its natural environment.
Corredor Biológico:
Un unidad de ordenamiento territorial compuesta por áreas naturales legalmente protegidas y un área de conexión entre ellas, que proporciona un conjunto de bienes y servicios ambientales, y brinda espacios de concertación social para promover la inversión en la conservación, manejo y aprovechamiento sustentable de los recursos naturales y la biodiversidad, en con el fin de contribuir a mejorar la calidad de vida de sus habitantes sin menoscabar su entorno natural.