The preservation and conservation of the natural resources, originates from the issue of the National Natural Resources code from 1974 and since this decree it’s assigned to the autonomous regional corporations and state entities with functions in the environmental administration, different responsibilities in terms of preservation and conservation, based on this, it was made an investigation oriented to evaluate the environmental legislation, the actions made for each of the identified entities, in the protection and conservation of a strategic ecosystem in the city of Villavicencio, the wetland Kirpas Pinilla la Cuerera, emphasizing in the functions of the Corporation for the Sustainable Development from the Special Management Area of the Macarena Cormacarena, taking into account the functions adopted once Colombia entered to be part of the Ramsar Convention agreements in 1997, to identifie and delimit strategic areas of environmental importance. Additional to the public gestion, it was analyzed the actions made by other interest groups such as academic institutions and communities from the area of influence, to determine the articulation of the academy in the investigative field with the social component, evidencing little to none efforts in the characterization and protection of this important ecosystem.