Saving Ecuador’s Los Cedros, Again and Again and Again

“It is now, in the words of Bitty Roy, Professor of Ecology from the University of Oregon, the best forested watershed in western Ecuador.”

The Rainforest Information Centre and I personally have been involved in the defence of Los Cedros for many years. This cloud forest reserve is home to spectacled bears, brown-headed spider monkeys and countless plant species found nowhere else.

Saving a forest is rarely a single victory. It is a long campaign of legal challenges, community organising and stubborn hope. Los Cedros has been saved again and again — and our work continues.