Project

Wildlife Conservation Society
Ecuador

In Ecuador, WCS participates in landscape-scale conservation at the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve. At Yasuni, we conduct wildlife research and partner with local NGOs, universities, grassroots organizations, government institutions, and oil companies to promote conservation. WCS also helps train members of the Kichwa and Waorani indigenous groups in conservation science and works to conserve wildlife through community-based management plans. WCS research efforts focus on the black caiman, giant river otter, jaguar, white-lipped peccary, and lowland tapir.

WCS’s Amazon-Andes Conservation program works to protect seven massive Amazonian landscapes in five countries: one in Ecuador, two each in Bolivia and Brazil, and one each in Peru and Venezuela. Together, these landscapes comprise almost 86,000 square miles, or 3 percent of the Amazon Basin.