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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 Coastal Ecuadorian forest loss One man's riches Exporting rainforest destruction Lowland Paca For Sale: Endangered Species Andean Fox Mountain lion with cub Passionflower butterfly Ecotourism near Mindo, Ecuador Tropical butterfly and moth pupa 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 Farmer converted to conservation Andean condor art