Our Impact

OUR IMPACT

OUR IMPACT

Our goal does not end at the boundaries of the reserve: we aspire to inspire a new model of conservation in this precious corner of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Every action in Selva Eterna represents a true commitment to life. Our work not only protects a territory, it transforms realities, generates knowledge, and strengthens the connection between nature and community. These are some of our achievements:

Our Impact
Our Impact
Selva Eterna SELVA ETERNA NATURAL RESERVE

Our Impact

We protect and manage a 152-hectare private nature reserve. By acquiring additional land and forging agreements with our neighbors, we will directly protect 2,000 surrounding hectares in the medium term. We are promoting the establishment of a Binational Biological Connectivity Biocorridor of more than 120,000 hectares, including communal, public, and private lands. This represents an area equal to the entire Los Angeles district.

Selva Eterna SELVA ETERNA NATURAL RESERVE

Our Reach

We seek to ensure the protection of the largest possible number of forest areas connected to the properties acquired through the Selva Eterna initiative, "named to promote a binational area that fosters eternal harmony." This conservation area is dedicated to study and protection through the establishment of a scientific station and ancestral knowledge center in the heart of one of the world's most biodiverse regions, located in territories poorly studied by science, forgotten, remote, and on historical war frontiers.

Our Reach
Our Impact
Selva Eterna SELVA ETERNA NATURAL RESERVE

Our Impact

The creation of the Eternal Rainforest Reserve will not only help mitigate climate change, but it will also help halt biodiversity loss. For example, protecting one hectare of Amazon rainforest in this region bordering Ecuador and Peru actually helps save this incredible number of animal and plant species:

Amphibians
+140
Amphibians
Birds
416
Birds
Reptiles
120
Reptiles
Fish
+500
Fish
Mammals
204
Mammals
Arthropods
+100,000
Arthropods
Trees
+2,500
Trees
Our Impact
Our Impact

Figure 1: This map shows that there are more species of terrestrial vertebrates in the upper Amazon of Ecuador and the Marañón area of northen Peru than anywhere else on the planet. Map from Mannion et al. 2014.