They have increased pressures on protected areas (PA), putting biodiversity conservation and the provision of ecosystem services at risk. In the planning of land use and development models promoted by municipalities, departments, the nation and productive sectors, PAs are absent or are perceived as limiting factors for progress. It is essential and unpostponable that PAs be integrated into land use plans. Our process has combined political, technical and operational actions. Today, National Parks is part of the Special Inter-Institutional Committee of the Colombian Land Use Planning Commission, has achieved the inclusion of PAs in municipal, departmental and national land use planning instruments, develops pilot cases in different parts of the country and trains different stakeholders.