During July and August, in the Magdalena Alto community, located in the area surrounded the Los Cedros Protected Forest, a workshop series was developed to advance Human Rights and Rights of Nature. The course saw significant participation from the community’s youth, adults, and elderly alike.

Earlier this month in August, we had an important and fun visit by a class from the Isla Santa Isabel Educational Unit from the local community of San Miguel de Chontal, who planned an excursion to the Los Cedros Protected Forest.

From June 10 to 14, students from Pachamama School (Quito) spent the week pursuing educational projects at the Los Cedros Scientific Station. Applying this effective educational strategy with experimental and observation methods inside the forest, they built on the knowledge previously acquired in the classrooms.

On International Children’s Day, the Scientific Station visited some single-teacher schools in the Los Manduriacos Valley to deliver teaching materials, as an educational contribution to the area. We shared a lovely day with the children, their teachers and their mothers and fathers, accompanied by a puppet show by the Performing Arts Company “El Revuelque Títeres”.

The passing of the ones we love hurts. And it especially hurts when those beings dedicated their lives to making this world more beautiful.

An international alliance made up of lawyers, scientists, artists and public figures from different parts of the world, within the framework of the More than Human Rights” Rights” – MOTH, an initiative of the Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Program at the New York University School of Law will establish an international interdisciplinary oversight

In March we had an important visit to the Los Cedros Scientific Station, from members of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), who wanted to see first-hand the emblematic place where, for the first time in history, the Rights of Nature were legally applied to protect one of the most threatened critical

Within the framework of the forest ranger training course organized by the Los Cedros Scientific Station, aimed at community members of the Los Manduriacos Valley. A certified wild rescue and first aid workshop was held by the Provincial Board of the Imbabura Red Cross, from February 22 to 25.

During the months of September and January 2024, a group of around 15 community members from the Los Manduriacos Valley were trained in the evaluation of the ecological quality of rivers, as part of the topics addressed in the ranger training course.

In the period between August and November 2023, a team of researchers from the University of Missouri-St. Louis (Ajith Ashokan, Raj Prasai, Lindsey Dennison and Sebastian Forward), headed by Nathan Muchhala, and in collaboration with local students from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (Andrea Caicedo L.), a study was