With the support of Fondation Segré, we will work together with the local government of Palanda (GAD) to strengthen effective regional protection of the recently declared 70,000 ha of the Municipal Area for Conservation & Sustainable Use (ACMUS), which includes our flagship Tapichalaca reserve.
During the Global Big Day, we registered a total of 394 bird species at 12 of our Jocotoco reserves. This is more than one-third of all the species that were reported that day in Ecuador, proudly putting us at the first place of top contributors in the country!
We carried out the annual census of the endemic Pale-headed Brushfinch, in our Yunguilla reserve. The recent records indicate that the population numbers of this species are consistent and stable in comparison to censuses from previous years.
Six thousand Polylepis trees were planted by our field team led by our reserve manager Michelle Hidrobo.
The population of Mountain Tapir recovers as we protect the cloud forests and highlands of our Tapichalaca reserve.
Jocotoco Galapagos reserve is a strategic site that protects the key breeding area of the petrels and also conserves an important freshwater sources in San Cristóbal Island.
For the next 4 years, a group of scientists, of 14 universities, will investigate the regenerative capacity of pastures and cocoa plantations in the Chocó rainforest.
For the first time, the nesting of a Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) was recorded on the beach of the Ancestral Commune of Las Tunas, Manabí, Ecuador.
Thanks to the camera traps project, led by the Laboratorio de Ecología y Conservación de Carnívoros of USFQ, together with Fundación Jocotoco and other organizations, the presence of at least 20 different bears was recorded in the Metropolitan District of Quito.
