Events

Image showing a group of researchers surveying a swamp

AUG 1
Ecuador Snake Census II
Central coast

Image showing the team members of the 2nd BioBlitz

AUG 22
BioBlitz, chapter IV
Arlequín and Pitalala reserves

Image showing the cloud forest at Llanganates National Park

OCT 11
Ecuador Snake Census III
Llanganates National Park

APR. 12
BioBlitz, chapter III
Arlequín and Pitalala reserves

Urgent projects

Image showing an open-pit gold mine close to the Pitalala Reserve

Saving the Amazon from mining: Urgent expansion of the Pitalala Reserve

Help our foundation stop an open-pit gold mining operation by creating a 208-hectare rainforest reserve in the “biodiversity vertex,” the most biodiverse area in the world.

$408,301 raised of $966,562 goal.

42%

101 backers. 22 days to go.

Rapid-response project to save the Mindo Toad: The creation of Arlequín Reserve

The goal of this project is to protect the habitat of the only known relict population of Atelopus mindoensis, a species that was thought to be extinct for more than 30 years.

$129,121 raised of $296,000 goal.

44%

57 backers. 32 days to go.