Andes-Choco Forest

Farmers converting to conservation

Farmers converting to conservation

This mountain, with working community farms at its base, comprises much of the Otonga Cloud Forest Reserve. With private funding, the reserve has grown to 1,500 hectares (about 3,400 acres) and protects a great diversity of wildlife from parrots to pumas. In fact, one local farmer has become the caretaker for the reserve.

Rainforest treefrog guarding eggs
View from below
Cloud Forest stream
Andean Cock-of-the-Rock
Otonga Cloud Forest Reserve
Farmers converting to conservation
Toucan of the Andes
Toucan Barbet, Otonga Cloud Forest Reserve
The White-whiskered puffbird
Ancient ceramic art depicting wildlife
Global loss of amphibians
The Imbabura tree frog
Tricolor poison dart frog photo-illustration
Cloud Forest lizard
Juvenile green iguanas
One man's riches
Coastal Ecuadorian forest loss
Lowland Paca
Andean Fox
For Sale: Endangered Species
Mountain lion with cub
Passionflower butterfly 
Ecotourism near Mindo, Ecuador
Tropical butterfly and moth pupa
Farmer converted to conservation
Legless Amphibian of the Cloud Forest
Cloud forest geometry
Cloud Forest flora
Cloud Forest Orchid
Paramo botany
Andean Paramo landscape
Breakfast in the Cloud Forest
Andean condor art