For Giving Tuesday, we are making available a printing version of the coloring book "Pericles and his friends". Print this book for your children and teach them about different species of parakeets and the importance of biodiversity conservation.
Incredible news! The Orcés Blue Whiptail (Holcosus orcesi) is not extinct! Listed by the IUCN as critically endangered or possibly extinct, and not seen since its discovery in the 1960s, the species was found in the Yunguilla Valley by our colleagues of Tropical Herping.
Pumas had been hunted out of the paramo by the time that we established our Chakana Reserve in 2011. Now, our park rangers spotted one for the first time during their regular patrolling at the upper part of our reserve.
Byron Delgado and René Zambrano, our park rangers in Ayampe Reserve discovered an Esmeraldas Woodstar nest at the beginning of the year. This is great news because we have not spotted nests of this species at our reserve for more than five years!
We have two important updates regarding our Buenaventura Reserve. First, the Red-masked Parakeets released last December were spotted at our reserve. Second, we reached a new reforestation milestone.
Western Ecuador is one of the worst-hit place in Latin America. Many communities surrounding our reserves are at very high risk. Families lost their income and cannot access food or medical supplies. We recently started our campaign Help our neighbors to buy and deliver these products.
