Jocotoco - Jocotoco

Jocotoco is bending the curve: New Nature Study Confirms Jocotoco’s Conservation is Helping Restore Biodiversity in Ecuador’s Chocó Within One Human Generation. Learn more here

OUR IMPACT

Every year we discover new species, we rediscover species thought to have already been lost to extinction, and we bring species back from the brink. We protect and restore wildlife habitat from Amazon rainforests to high Andean paramos, into the wet Chocó and the dry Tumbes, and across the ocean to the Galápagos.

Our Canandé Reserve in the Chocó supports the only healthy population of Jaguars in western Ecuador.

Our Chakana Reserve supports 30% of all the Andean Condors found in Ecuador.

Galápagos

In the sea, we helped establish and create a management plan for a massive marine reserve connecting the Galápagos with Cocos Island in Costa Rica.

In only 25 years, the length of one human generation, natural regrowth in Canandé Reserve has resulted in wildlife returning to once-desolated places in a diversity that matches that seen in old-growth rainforests.

In the Ayampe Reserve at the Pacific coast, we increased the number of sea turtle nests at least twelve-fold in 10 years, and the number of young turtles reaching the ocean every year has increased 100-fold.