Minam and the Pucllana Site Museum promote the conservation of native cotton **Note:** The original text is already in English, so the translation remains the same.

The Ministry of the Environment (Minam), in alliance with the Pucllana Site Museum of Lima, is developing joint actions to promote the conservation, valuation, and knowledge of the native colored cotton (Gossypium barbadense), an emblematic genetic resource of our biodiversity. In this regard, the General Directorate of Biological Diversity of this sector reported that this native plant species is a biological and cultural heritage, especially due to its variety of natural colors and its close link with traditional ancestral agricultural and textile practices. In recent years, Minam has reinforced the strategies for the recovery and study of native cotton. In this line, specialized studies were developed between 2012 and 2019, whose results were published in the Baseline of Peruvian Cotton Diversity for Biosecurity Purposes (2020). Technical support is also provided for research on the inheritance of natural colors of cotton by the National Agrarian University La Molina (UNALM), a ...