In the protected areas of the volcanoes: Santa María, Cerro Quemado and Siete Orejas, located in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, the territorial area of the municipal garbage dump, the landslides due to lack of forests and the advance of cultivation have increased, which generated the solution of creating a community nursery, in which trees and native medicinal plants are germinated and collected to reforest these areas. The innovation is to have a community nursery producing natural resources for reforestation, avoiding to manage them with private or governmental organizations that represent a cost in money and time. It is an unlimited resource of trees and medicinal plants to be transplanted in protected areas that have been deforested, burned or lost forest.

Seeds of plants that are natural to their biodiversity are extracted from the protected areas, germinated in the nursery and then transplanted in those areas. Through this nursery, 14 hectares of protected areas have been reforested.