Abstract
In 1994 Pizano S.A. and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana signed up a cooperation agreement in order to develop technical and scientific research áctivities in forest exploitation zones. Asan initial step, the "Chocó Biogeografico" program was created, which includes the project "Biodiversity ofwood exploitation areas belonging to Pizano S.A. in the choco Region". This program is being developed by Unidad de Ecología y Sistemática (UNESIS) (Departrnent of Biology) at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. One graduate and eleven undergraduate biology thesis are also being carried on in severa! ecological fea tu res in this region. This paper presents the main purposes and conceptual basis of the program.Univ. Sci. is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.