Tropical dry forests (TDF) are one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, especially in Colombia. One way to promote TDF conservation is by upholding the valuation of the ecosystem services they provide. Therefore, in order to deepen the understanding regarding the conservation of TDF from the perspective of local communities, we sampled two populations for our analysis: the first one consisted of people living inside a TDF protected area, while the second one was made up of urban inhabitants living near the TDF. Through a contingent valuation study, we found that 71% of urban inhabitants were willing to pay 12,119 USD/year to the protected area's inhabitants to implement conservation strategies and also that 100% of the protected area's dwellers were willing to participate of the strategy. Hence, we proposed a payment for ecosystem services scheme. Lastly, we observed that inhabitants’ high participation rates for the proposed strategy related to the high importance given to TDF-provided ecosystem services.

热带干旱森林（TDF）是世界上最濒危的生态系统之一，尤其是在哥伦比亚。促进TDF保护的一种方法是维持其提供的生态系统服务的价值。因此，为了从当地社区的角度加深对TDF保护的理解，我们抽取了两个人口进行分析：第一个是居住在TDF保护区内的人，第二个是城市居民。住在TDF附近的居民。通过一项或有评估研究，我们发现71％的城市居民愿意每年向保护区居民支付12,119美元以实施保护策略，并且100％的保护区居民都愿意参与该策略。因此，我们提出了生态系统服务付费方案。最后，我们观察到居民对拟议策略的高参与率与对TDF提供的生态系统服务的高度重视有关。