What Bauen Project does

Bauen Project (Fundación Bauen Project) is a Colombian nonprofit foundation founded in 2021 and headquartered in Bogotá, operating nature-based ecological restoration programs across three biomes: Andean páramo (Santurbán, Sumapaz, Las Delicias), Amazon rainforest (Mocagua, Leticia), and Pacific/Caribbean mangrove ecosystems. The foundation combines restoration science (Applied Nucleation, Miyawaki method adapted for high-altitude ecosystems), MAGNA-SIRGAS georeferenced tree tracking uploaded to the Ministry of Environment (MADS) platform, and the Siete Canastos ethnoconservation model integrating traditional knowledge from Ticuna, Cocama, Yagua, Huitoto, and Ocarina indigenous peoples. As of 2025, the foundation has planted 802,147 native trees across 8 allied territories, benefiting 589 families and recycling 38 tonnes of waste through community programs.

The foundation operates three integrated programs: Hábitats Tropicales (nature-based solutions and Law 2173/Resolution 1491 corporate compliance), Expedición Juntanza (regenerative and community-based tourism priced at 1.3M–2.5M COP per person), and Urdimbre Lab (citizen science and knowledge networks). Revenue derives from four streams: corporate reforestation compliance at ~49,290 COP per tree with 200-tree minimum engagements, CO2 compensation through the Bosques Corporativos program (20 organizations enrolled toward a 100-organization goal), donations (e.g., $20,000 USD goal for the Amazonia Adopta program), and regenerative tourism. The customer base spans medium and large Colombian enterprises (Latam Airlines, Bogotá Beer Company, EPM), individual donors and travelers, municipal governments (Alcaldía de Soacha under a convenio de asociación), and environmental authorities (Corpoamazonia).

Bauen Project functions with 9 employees and operates without disclosed external funding or revenue figures. Distribution is exclusively domestic (Colombia) and channeled through direct enterprise field sales for compliance, direct-to-consumer website/WhatsApp for tourism and donations, and formal association agreements with public-sector partners. The foundation's positioning is materially reinforced by Colombia's Law 2173 of 2021 and Resolution 1491 of 2025, which mandate 2 native trees per employee for medium and large enterprises — a regulatory tailwind estimated at 30 million trees mobilized nationally.

Name

Bauen Project

Legal name

Fundación Bauen Project

Website

https://bauenproject.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bauen Project is a Colombian nonprofit foundation that delivers nature-based ecological restoration across Andean páramo, Amazon, and mangrove ecosystems, serving corporate compliance clients under Law 2173, regenerative tourism travelers, indigenous community partners, and municipal governments across Colombia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Ecological Restoration Services

NAICS

Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312), Support Activities for Forestry (1153), Support Activities for Forestry (11531)

SIC

Forestry (800), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Ecosystem Services & Natural Capital Programs (Water, Biodiversity Credits, PES) (IMAMAJAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Program Development & Administration (AFAMAMAF), Avoided Conversion & Ecosystem Protection (REDD+, Blue Carbon Conservation) (EUABABAC), Nature & Biodiversity Reporting (TNFD, natural capital) (EUAHAJAM), Timberland Carbon & Natural Capital Project Development (Offsets/REDD+) (AFAMAKAH), Forestry & Reforestation (BPAGAGAD)

Keywords

• Ecological restoration services
• Corporate environmental compliance
• Regenerative community tourism
• Nature-based solutions
• Biocultural conservation

Headquarters

HQ city

Bogota, DC

HQ country

Colombia

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Corporate Reforestation & Compliance Services: Bauen Project charges Colombian companies for full-service regulatory compliance with Law 2173/Resolution 1491. Services include Area de Vida governance, socio-ecological baseline, planting, 2-year maintenance/monitoring, and the 'Certificado Siembra Vida Empresarial.' Pricing is calculated per employee (2 trees/employee) at ~49,290 COP per tree, with minimum engagement of 200 trees. Additional revenue comes from corporate volunteering days and custom sustainability strategy consulting.
2. Expedicion Juntanza — Regenerative Tourism: Multi-day immersive tourism expeditions in Amazonia, Pacific coast, and Andean paramo regions. Tour packages include scientific research activities, community immersion, and direct ecosystem restoration participation (mangrove planting, tree sowing). Revenue is one-time per trip, with pricing between 1.3M and 2.5M COP per person. Monthly subscribers receive 10% discount.
3. Donations & Crowdfunding: Individual and corporate donations fund specific restoration projects including the Amazonia 'Adopta' campaign (20,000 USD goal for the Community Science School), Sumapaz paramo campaign (9,000 trees), and general reforestation. Donors receive a personalized diploma, DIAN tax certificate, and project update reports.
4. Carbon Offset & Corporate Forest Services: CO2 compensation through reforestation for companies seeking to offset operational emissions. Includes 3-year maintenance, georeferencing reports, periodic updates, and biodiversity monitoring. Clients receive a branded plaque identifying their company on the forest site.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Bauen Project is a Colombian nonprofit foundation that delivers ecological restoration, biodiversity conservation, and nature-based solutions across Colombia's Andean paramo, Amazon rainforest, and coastal-marine ecosystems. It sells corporate compliance services under Law 2173/Resolution 1491 of 2025, regenerative community-based tourism expeditions (Expedición Juntanza), corporate carbon offset forests (Bosques Corporativos), and accepts tax-deductible donations for restoration programs in alliance with indigenous and local communities.

Product overview

Bauen Project is a Colombian conservation foundation operating three integrated programs: (1) Hábitats Tropicales — a nature-based solutions platform offering ecological restoration, carbon offset services, and corporate sustainability compliance under Colombian Law 2173; (2) Expedición Juntanza — a regenerative and community-based tourism program with expeditions across the Amazon, Pacific, and high-mountain regions; and (3) Urdimbre Lab — a social appropriation of knowledge initiative with citizen science, learning networks, and specialized consulting. Supporting these are multiple project portfolios including Bosques Corporativos (corporate forests), specific restoration sites (Siete Canastos in the Amazon, Nuquí Verde on the Pacific coast, Fiivo Iyachi in Leticia), and thematic modules for páramo (Alta Montaña) and coastal-marine ecosystems (Marino Costero). The Adopta Amazonía program enables individual donations toward Amazonian restoration with indigenous community partnerships.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Hábitats Tropicales: Nature-based solutions program for conservation and ecosystem restoration including reforestation, carbon footprint compensation, and corporate sustainability services
• Expedición Juntanza
• Urdimbre Lab

Products and services

• Hábitats Tropicales Nature-based solutions (SbN) program providing ecological restoration, conservation, biodiversity management, carbon footprint measurement, environmental compensation, Payments for Environmental Services (PES), and corporate volunteering across Andean paramo, tropical rainforest, and coastal-marine ecosystems in Colombia.
• Expedición Juntanza Regenerative and community-based tourism experiences offering multi-day scientific and community expeditions across the Colombian Amazon, Pacific Coast, and high-mountain regions. Participants engage in reforestation, mangrove restoration, biodiversity monitoring, and cultural immersion while staying in ecological lodges.
• Ley 2173 / Resolución 1491 Compliance Service End-to-end regulatory compliance service for medium and large Colombian enterprises obligated to plant two native trees per employee annually under Law 2173 of 2021 and Resolution 1491 of 2025. Includes Área de Vida identification, socio-ecological baseline, planting plan, two-year maintenance/monitoring, georeferencing, and issuance of the Certificado Siembra Vida Empresarial.
• Bosques Corporativos Corporate forest and CO2 capture service enabling organizations to design and implement climate mitigation, compensation, and restoration measures. Includes ICA-certified native species planting, three-year maintenance, georeferenced monitoring reports, periodic updates, biodiversity monitoring, and a branded plaque at the forest site.
• Adopta Amazonía Tree adoption and donation program for Amazon rainforest restoration, in partnership with Ticuna, Cocama, Yagua, Huitoto, and Ocarina indigenous communities in Mocagua, Amazonas. Includes a community science school, botanical repository, and native species nursery development funded by a USD 20,000 campaign goal.
• Alta Montaña (Páramos) High-altitude páramo ecosystem restoration service across three Colombian páramos (Santurbán, Sumapaz, Las Delicias), planting native species including Aliso, Laurel de páramo, Mortiño, and Espeletias with indigenous and peasant communities.
• Marino Costero (Manglares) Coastal mangrove restoration service across the Pacific, Urabá, and Caribbean regions of Colombia using four mangrove species, managed through Afro-descendant and indigenous community nurseries.

Quantifiable outcome

• 802,147 trees planted and counting toward 1 million tree goal
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Alcaldia de SoachacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFormal association agreement (convenio de asociacion) between the Soacha Mayor's Office and Bauen Project to plant and maintain 9,000 native trees in Alto del Cabra vereda over three years, in fulfillment of Order 4.24 of Sentencia 479 del Rio Bogota. The municipality assumes monitoring and verification responsibilities.
• CorpoamazoniacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the Siete Canastos restoration program in the indigenous reserve of Mocagua, Amazonas. Corpoamazonia provides institutional backing and alignment with regional conservation strategy, while Bauen Project brings technical execution and community integration. 200 hectares under joint management.
• Semillero de Investigacion SIBUC - Universidad CentralcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partnership with the SIBUC seedbed at Universidad Central to enrich knowledge and methodologies in the Sumapaz paramo restoration project. Joint work includes flora cataloging, botanical identification, and academic integration of community science.
• Gran Fondo de Ciclismo BogotaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSustainability partnership with the Gran Fondo de Bogota 2024 cycling event. Bauen Project served as environmental sustainability ally, with cycling participants able to contribute to reforestation as part of their race participation.
• Latam AirlinesminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate donor and partner for environmental footprint compensation through participatory reforestation in the Choco region. Latam Airlines used Bauen Project's services to offset carbon emissions via a community-based reforestation model.
• Bogota Beer CompanyminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate donor and partner for Paramo de Sumapaz restoration. Bogota Beer Company collaborated with Bauen Project as a showcase sustainability initiative, citing the Sumapaz restoration as their best environmental credentials.
• EPM (Empresas Publicas de Medellin)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerEPM purchased two Expedicion Juntanza packages (Pacifico and Amazonas) for their sustainability team, describing it as a value-aligned corporate investment that strengthened community ties.
• Universidad del Caribe (Unicaribe)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic alliance with Universidad del Caribe focused on biodiversity conservation. Blog post 'Alianza Estrategica entre Bauen Project y la Universidad del Caribe' describes joint work in biodiversity loss mitigation and climate action.
• Levi'sminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate partner shown in alliance section of website. Nature and extent of collaboration unspecified in available source data.
• Indeleble SocialminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate partner shown in alliance section of website. Nature and extent of collaboration unspecified in available source data.
• ConcentrixminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate partner shown in alliance section of website. Nature and extent of collaboration unspecified in available source data.
• Cine ColombiaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate partner shown in alliance section of website. Nature and extent of collaboration unspecified in available source data.
• Devocion CoffeeminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate partner shown in alliance section of website. Nature and extent of collaboration unspecified in available source data.
• WebhelpminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate partner shown in alliance section of website. Nature and extent of collaboration unspecified in available source data.
• NequiminorGTM or Marketing PartnerDigital payments partner shown in alliance section. Nature and extent of collaboration (possibly for donation processing) unspecified in available source data.
• Compensar (Gestion Social Empresarial)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership with Compensar's Corporate Social Management to deliver virtual conference on Law 2173 transformation to affiliated companies. Includes webinar series on enterprise forest strategy.
• ICA (Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario)coreTechnology or IntegrationRegulatory partner providing certification that planting material comes from ICA-registered nurseries (Resolution 316 of 2018). ICA certification is a mandatory requirement under Article 17 of Resolution 1491 for companies to obtain the Certificado Siembra Vida Empresarial.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• South Pole Group: Large global carbon project developer and climate solutions provider with extensive forestry and nature-based project portfolios in Latin America. Comparable to Bauen as a competing developer of forest-based carbon and corporate sustainability services, but at vastly greater scale and geographic breadth.
• Fondo Acción: Colombian environmental fund and project implementer managing biodiversity, climate, and water programs with corporate and multilateral funding. Comparable as a domestic nonprofit executing large-scale conservation and restoration projects in Colombia, including páramo and forest ecosystems.
• Fundación Natura: Long-standing Colombian environmental nonprofit working on biodiversity conservation, sustainable production, and climate action across multiple ecosystems. Comparable as a domestic nonprofit peer with similar biomes (Andes, Amazon) and corporate partnership models.

Regional players

• Carboneers: Latin American (Mexico-anchored) nature-based solutions and reforestation project developer offering corporate CO2 compensation and ecosystem restoration packages. Comparable to Bauen in business model (corporate carbon offset + reforestation) and in serving Spanish-speaking corporate clients.
• Compensar: Colombian family compensation fund and social services operator with a sustainability arm that delivers Law 2173 educational programming to affiliated corporates. Comparable as a Colombian partner/distribution channel for ESG training and corporate compliance education that overlaps with Bauen's enterprise webinars.

Emerging players

• Restor: Open-data platform mapping and monitoring global restoration projects and connecting funders with on-the-ground initiatives. Comparable as a tech/data layer for ecological restoration that overlaps with Bauen's Urdimbre Lab citizen-science and georeferenced tracking model.
• Pachama: Tech-enabled carbon marketplace connecting corporate buyers with nature-based and tech-based carbon projects in Latin America. Comparable as a competing channel for nature-based carbon and reforestation credits in Colombia and the wider region, though Pachama is a marketplace rather than a project operator.
• Ecosystem Restoration Camps: Global nonprofit network organizing volunteer-driven ecological restoration camps and citizen-science restoration projects. Comparable in methodology (nature-based solutions, volunteer mobilization, citizen science) and in offering structured corporate/individual restoration participation experiences.

Direct peers

• Reserva: The Forest Landscape Restoration Project: Colombian social enterprise offering corporate reforestation packages and ecosystem restoration services in the Andes. Directly comparable as a Colombian competitor for Law 2173 / corporate tree-planting compliance services and ESG-driven reforestation contracts.
• Banco de Bosques: Iberian and Latin American reforestation platform offering individuals and companies symbolic tree adoption and verified planting in protected forests. Comparable as a direct-to-consumer donation + corporate reforestation model, though operating mainly in Spain/LATAM.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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