Ciencia Ciudadana como Estrategia Pedagógica para Fortalecer la Preservación de Bosques y Prevención de Incendios Forestales en el Municipio de Unguia Chocó

This article is the result of research conducted on Community Environmental Education developing a learning process based on citizen science, for the preservation of forests in the Municipality of Unguia -Chocó, which analyzes the use of science applied to citizenship as an educational innovation strategy at the community environmental level for the subsistence of the forests of the region with the Guardians of the Ciénaga, seeking to promote the cooperation of the inhabitants of the municipality located in the biogeographic Chocó through community group training actions, which claim the care of ecosystems, the Execution of a network for monitoring the preservation of wetlands and fires, through the use of low-cost mobile applications and the development of community actions based on the analysis of data collected through the monitoring network, which allow the governance of the territory by its inhabitants. This paper presents the importance of applied citizen science in forest preservation and fire prevention based on a systematic and thorough literature review conducted using the PRISMA protocol. Based on the research analyzed, this study concludes that citizen science can be used through multiple mechanisms or applicability approaches, such as the use of technological tools, the provision of local information, training for residents, the use of specialized platforms or networks, as well as the analysis of databases and geographic information systems. However, the validation or standardization of information generated through citizen science remains a research gap.