Forest – Triple Salto

Jocotoco

The Jocotoco Foundation is an Ecuadorian non-government organization established in 1998 to protect land of critical importance to the conservation of Ecuador’s endangered birds and associated biodiversity. The Foundation primarily achieves this by purchasing lands and managing them as ecological reserves. To date, the Jocotoco Foundation has established ten reserves protecting about 15,000 ha (approx 37,000 acres). While the reserves have primarily been established to protect habitat for endangered birds, their habitats and many associated plants and animals are protected as well. The Foundation’s reserves are known to support populations of over 800 species of birds, of which over 50 are globally threatened or near-threatened and more than 100 are restricted-range or endemic species…

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Trees for seeds

Since 2002, Quito started a participatory organic urban agriculture program (AGRUPAR) as a city policy. AGRUPAR in Spanish means to get together. This food security program has grown to 2,500 orchards and involves approximately 16,000 citizens living in the city´s periphery. AGRUPAR involves women and men of all ages and races, addicts that are trying to recuperate their lives, and anyone interested in learning in growing their food and feeding their dreams. Urban agriculture translates into an additional monthly income of USD 151 for each participant (Ecuador´s monthly minimum wage is USD 354), however, what people value the most is its positive impact to their family´s health.

Due to the eruption of the volcano Cotopaxi since August 2015, located 2 hours away from the city, Quito has experienced ash fall. Together with forest fires, various orchards have been damaged or lost. In the past five years, over 10,000 hectares of forests have been burnt. Restoration requires nearly 10 million dollars.

“Trees for Seeds” is a campaign to support the Municipality´s reforestation program launched in November 2015. For every tree planted, we intend to raise USD 1 dollar. 2,300 hectares are included in this plan and an average of 100,000 trees is the annual goal. The donations will serve to buy seeds for the damaged orchards as well as trees for the reforestation program.

Seeds will become orchards and entrepreneurs. Trees will become forests that will help Quito adapt to climate change.

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Hiking for Change

Forests are one of the cheapest ways to combat climate change solutions. Only by knowing forests it feels the connection for conservation. We want to educate people about our natural wealth while we promote sports and health and make each person contributes to our programs and projects.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Our fundraising expeditions are a way to link the individual interest with a unique experience that impacts the community and the planet. For St. Augustine “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”. We want to open the book with you to create a network of explorers that share experiences in amazing locations while they support “triple jump” initiatives. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” (Henry Miller) This is an invitation to read a new book in the middle of an extraordinary ecosystem to boost change.

Inti Raymi Fundraising for water projects in rural communities in the Otavalo area.

Welcome to Ecuador

Galapagos : Learn about this human heritage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zQv68ocgnQ
Rainforest : Ecuador is one of the countries that shares the Amazon basin, the largest planet’s lung. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zQv68ocgnQ

“… Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants, the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage, but above all the general luxuriance of the vegetation filled me with admiration. A most paradoxical mixture of sound and silence pervades the shady parts of the wood. The noise from the insects is so loud, that it may be heard even in a vesssel anchored several hundred yards from the shore; yet within the recesses of the forest a universal silence appears to reign. To a person fond of nautral history, such a day as this brings with it a deeper pleasure than he can ever hope to experience again.”
The voyage of the Beagle / Charles Darwin 1845

Avenue of the Volcanoes:
325 km valley in the middle of Cordillera ranges. The name Avenue of Volcanoes was coined by Alexander Van Humbolt in 1802.

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