Project
Cofan Survival Fund
Supporting the Ecuadorian Amazon
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We are committed to biodiversity conservation and research, protecting our ancestral territory and its natural resources, developing environmentally sound income alternatives, and educating our youngest generation.
The Cofán are among the oldest surviving indigenous cultures in the Ecuadorian Amazon. We have lived for centuries in the forests where the Amazon Basin stretches toward the sky on the slopes of the Andes and its volcanoes. Cofán lands are home to primary forest, wild and pristine rivers, forbidding swamplands, and several thousand species of plants and animals, some found only here.
Over 1 million acres (about the size of the U.S. State of Delaware) of Cofán territory directly provide environmental, social and economic services for the Cofán, and also directly provide environmental services to everyone on the planet!