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Summary
We aim to share with local stakeholder and user of the Tona-Bucaramanga rural roda the knowledge of experts on how to prevent landslides of highly eroded slopes using ecological restoration. Landslides on this road have affected residents for decades. Inadequate management of soil and water are the main causes of the chronic landslides in the area. Education may be a game changer for local residents, academics, NGOs and natural resource managers. They will be invited to a seminar in February of 2017, where they can hear from national experts about how to prevent landslides of eroded slopes by suing ecological restoration. Experts will explain in a conference and in the field the techniques that have successfully reversed erosive processes in slopes of the Western and Central Colombia. This seminar can potentially ignite local initiatives to prevent landslides of their weakened slopes.