[2] At the time of his death he was working on a book about Colombia's endangered bird species entitled Aves Colombianas Amenazadas de Extinción (Engl.
[1] The HERB Project (Hydrology Ecology and Regional Biodiversity) in Colombia, described as "a collaborative programme between the Department of Geography, King's College London, UK, the Universidad del Cauca, the Instituto de Investigacion de Recursos Biologicos, Alexander Von Humboldt of the Colombian Ministry of Environment, CIAT and a number of other research groups in Colombia," is dedicated to the memory of Álvaro José Negret and continues his work on conservation.
[4] The Munchique wood wren (henicorhina negreti) is named in Álvaro José Negret's honor.
[5] Negret is also honored in the 2011 book, Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management, for allowing research at Tambito.
[7] His son Pablo Jose Negret, has followed his footsteps doing research in ecology and conservation of tropical forest.