The Jocotoco Conservation Foundation (Jocotoco US) protects our planet's most endangered ecosystems and wildlife throughout Ecuador and beyond. To do this, we work closely with partners, including Fundación Jocotoco, a conservation foundation in Ecuador created in 1998.
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 páramos, into the wet Chocó and the dry Tumbes, and across the ocean to the Galápagos.
We now protect and manage a network of reserves covering more than 100,000 acres (42,000 ha), and cooperatively manage an additional 188,000 acres (76,000 ha) of private and communal reserves, totaling an area larger than New York City.
In the Pacific Ocean, we helped establish and create a management plan for the massive La Hermandad marine reserve, connecting the Galápagos with Cocos Island in Costa Rica.
We've planted over 1.7 million trees using 140 native species, restoring tropical forests.
In just 25 years, parts of our Canandé Reserve in the Chocó have transformed from barren pastures to lush forests.
