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Environmental Education to Care for and Learn from the Marvelous Los Cedros Protected Forest
Since the first months of 2024, CIPBAT—the Los Cedros Scientific Station team—has carried out a dream of our founder Josef DeCoux: make an alliance with the Manduriacos Valley school systems to benefit the children and
A Field Trip to the Santa Lucía Ecological Reserve
In December 2024, we made a visit to the Santa Lucía Ecological Reserve in Pichincha’s northwestern parish of Nanegal. Including Los Cedros Scientific Station (LCSS) staff and key players from the Manduriacos Valley, we went
Lauraceae Research by the Kew Gardens in the Chocó forests of the Ecuadorian Andes
English botanist Tom Wells—a researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew Gardens)—went into the Los Cedros Protected Forest for a few weeks in November to research the Lauraceae family, whose members include plants such
Moving the Class to the Cloud Forest! Students from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador visited the Los Cedros Protected Forest
In November, we had a wonderful visit with students from the Biological Sciences program out of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador as part of a field trip by the Natural Resources Management chair, led
ACUSMIT developed a training course for “Honorific Inspectors” at the Los Cedros Scientific Station
In September, the Los Cedros Scientific Station was the epicenter of a training course for “Honorific Inspectors,” run by the Ministry of the Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition (MAATE, initials in Spanish) and promoted by