Within the framework of the Project “Preparing Civil Society for the Co-Management and conservation of the Los Cedros Protected Forest – KBA ECU 14” financed by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), we held the introductory workshop on the Birds of the BPLC (KBA ECU14) and of Ecuador in March as part of the forest
Twenty community members from the Valle de Los Manduriacos, who are training to be forest rangers, participated in the territory and participatory mapping workshop held in March. The workshop consisted of two phases: the first focused on political mapping, led by José Cueva, a member of the CIPBAT team, and the second on social mapping
Representantes de las comunidades del Bosque Los Cedros visitaron Yunguilla para aprender sobre desarrollo sostenible, organización y esperanza colectiva.
In February, the second phase of the Community Forest Ranger Training Program began, with 10 young adults from last year’s program joined by 10 new young adults from the communities surrounding the Los Cedros Protected Forest, including Brillasol, Magdalena Alto, Chontal, Magdalena Bajo, Pueblo Unido, Paraíso, Río Verde, Villaflora, and Cielo Verde. Each council received
In this post, we’d like to share with you a preview of the work we’ve been doing throughout this year to promote conservation and love for the Los Cedros Protected Forest (LCPF), together with the communities of the Manduriacos Valley. Our organization, the Corporation for the Investigation and Protection of the Tropical Andes’ Forests (CIPBAT
In this post, you’ll find a brief overview of the educational approach that we’ve conceived of, dreamed up, and continue to build on as part of the Environmental Education program carried out in collaboration with schools and educational districts in the Intag area of the Los Manduriacos Valley. A project of the Los Cedros Scientific
On moths and attraction…
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 adolescents of the communities surrounding the Los Cedros Protected Forest (LCPF) with environmental education. Los Cedros’s incredible ecosystem would provide
En el mes de diciembre del 2024 organizamos una visita hacia la Reserva Ecológica Santa Lucía ubicada en la parroquia Nanegal, al noroccidente de Pichincha. De esta experiencia participamos el equipo operativo de la Estación Científica Los Cedros (ECLC) y varios actores clave del Valle de Los Manduriacos con el objetivo de conocer otras proyectos de conservación en el noroccidente del Ecuador.
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 as the aguacatillo and cinnamon tree. Lauraceae is of great interest, in part, because this family is widespread throughout Chocó
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