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| My-Quito.com : eco
tourism in Ecuador |
- Eco Tourism and Volunteer Work
- In many ways Ecuador is the
ideal place to work in nature conservation, combining huge bio-diversity
with indigenous communities. Choose your project according to
your interests and do take up references first. A few of the
opportunities are free, many not. Volunteering is likely to be
more expensive on the Galapagos, and you will have to add the
cost of getting there and Island Tax.
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- For readers accounts on volunteering,
it is worth looking through the trip reports at South American Explorers.
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- James worked with Jatun
Sacha on restoring shrimp farms at Bunche near Muisne during
in his gap year -read more on his blog.
As you can see, it was a tough time!
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- Asociación
Ecuatoriana de Ecoturismo
-ASEC fue fundada en 1991, por un grupo de empresarios, conservacionistas
y catedráticos con una clara visión del desarrollo
de la actividad en Ecuador y en el mundo. La misión de
ASEC es: Promover la Armonía entre el Turismo, la conservación
y la sociedad.
- Ceiba -Foundation for Tropical Conservation
-run the El Pahuma Orchid Reserve and the Lalo loor Dry Forest
Reserve.
- Cofán
Survival Fund (CSF) -a
non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of the Cofan
indigenous culture and its rainforest environment.
- Codeso
-Corporation for Sustainable Development.
- CRACYP -Rural Reforestation and Progress Network
Corporation -a not for profit organisation that facilitates reforestation
and sustainable rural development in communities in the foothills
of the Western Andes in Ecuador. On their companion site, www.farmstaysecuador.org,
they offer homestays with local families.
- Ecuador Volunteer.com -Tandachina, is a non-profit organization that
offers volunteer work opportunities abroad in social, environment,
educational and community areas around Ecuador.
- Foundation
for Integrated Education and Development (FUNEDESIN) -are dedicated to finding sustainable
solutions in the struggle between the ideals of rain forest preservation
and the realities of life in the Ecuadorian Amazon. They work
with local communities to develop community-based medical care
and ecotourism programs, establish sustainable agricultural practices,
improve education, provide environmentally sustainable economic
alternatives, and conserve the rain forest.
- Fundacion
Natura -La Fundación
Ecuatoriana para la Protección y Conservación de
la Naturaleza, NATURA, es una organización no gubernamental,
sin fines de lucro y de asociación voluntaria, creada
el 25 de julio de 1978 para la conservación del ambiente.
This is the most significant Ecuadorian organization working
in this field.
- Global Vision -volunteer for expeditions, conservation projects
and TEFL with this UK/USA charitable trust.
- Jatun
Sacha -a nonprofit private
Ecuadorian nongovernmental organization dedicated to the conservation,
investigation, management of ecologically important habitats,
and environmental education and community development. Volunteer
to work on biodiversity conservation at one of a number of biological
stations in Ecuador.
- New Era Galapagos
-volunteer with projects on the Galapagos Islands -NEGF is based
in San Cristobal and was started in 1996 by a partnership of
resident conservationists and volunteer American English teachers.
- Piedra
Blanca Ecotourism Project
-community-run ecotourism -nature-based, minimal impact, educational
eco-tours provided by local people near San Luis de Pombil.
- Ricance
-nine Quichua-Communities in the Sumaco Biosphere Reserve on
the Upper Río Napo offering an eco-tourism program and
possibilities for cultural exchange.
- Rio
Muchacho -Guacamayo Bahía
tours is a tour agency in Bahía de Caráquez which
is dedicated to Responsible tourism, and environmental work.
- Runa
Tupari - Unión
de Organizaciones Campesinas de Cotacachi (UNORCAC) is an organization
representing the rural and indigenous people in the canton of
Cotacachi. They offer tours and trekking, staying in native lodges
in Imbabura Province.
- Santa Martha Animal Rescue -animal conservation near Baños supported
by volunteers who assist in caring for the animals which include
monkeys, jaguars, pumas, lions, ocelots, parrots, macaws, and
a variety of other South American species.
- Santa
Lucia -Santa Lucía
is a community-based conservation organization located in the
cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador. Dedicated to the principles
of ecological sustainability and community development, the members
of Santa Lucía welcome visitors to their lands as part
of a developing ecotourism enterprise.
- Sinchi
Sacha Foundation - Sinchi
Sacha means "Powerful Jungle" in the native quichua
language. Sinchi Sacha Foundation is a non-profit NGO interested
in the sustainable development of society through the promotion
of handicraft production, eco-tourism projects with a communal
component, environmental education and the empowerment of the
community.
- Volunteer Abroad -volunteer programme offers the opportunity to
teach and nurture children in Quito.
- Volunteer Ecuador
-new horizons volunteer program -in operation since 1997, they
help integrate local Ecuadorian help organizations with volunteers
world-wide.
- Yachana -Marc is a Professor of History, Division
of Social Science at Truman State University and has written
widely on the social history of Ecuador -extensive information
on native peoples of Ecuador.
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