• Help formalize protection of the Bosques y Cascadas Las Rocas, a spectacular privately owned forest fragment and ecotourism operation that has been seeking formal conservation status for years. A title dispute needs resolution.

• Learn more about the large remaining forest fragments in the Centinela region and, in collaboration with local residents, identify realistic pathways for preserving them. Work with our partner organization, Fundación Jocotoco to jumpstart initiatives.

• Strengthen protection of the Cascadas de Cristal, a privately owned forest fragment and ecotourism operation.

• Advance the ex situ conservation of the locally endemic plants, such as Gasteranthus extinctus, in accredited botanical gardens. Work with our partner organization, Jardín Botanico Padre Julio Marrero to jumpstart initiatives.

• Update the map of primary forest fragments throughout the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, and identify the highest priorities for conservation.

• Help formalize protection of the Bosques y Cascadas Las Rocas, a spectacular privately owned forest fragment and ecotourism operation that has been seeking formal conservation status for years. A title dispute needs resolution.

• Use iNaturalist to share natural history observations from the Centinela region. For a collection of plants recorded there to date, see the Flora of Centinela project.

• Promote ecotourism in Santo Domingo and visit the spectacular waterfalls at Bosque y Cascadas Los Rocas and the Cascadas de Cristal preserve above the town of El Refugio.

• Help us carry out biological inventories of surviving fragments in the Centinela region (see maps in the Resources page); contact us!

• Work with the Tsáchila community and local residents to understand their history, land use, social organization, existing conservation practices, and knowledge of the landscape.

• Use new technologies to assess the extinction risk of threatened and endemic species in western Ecuador (e.g., population genomics, metabolomics, drone and satellite imagery).

• Quantify the population size and geographic distribution of Gasteranthus extinctus.

• Map primary forest fragments throughout the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas.

• Help identify plants recorded in the Centinela region in the iNaturalist Flora of Centinela project.

Please consider a donation to our partners at Fundación Jocotoco for their world-class preservation and conservation actions at Centinela and beyond.

In addition, these Ecuadorean conservation organizations working to conserve representative areas of coastal Ecuadorian forest:

• Fundación JaPu

• Fundación Great Leaf

• Fundación Ecominga

• Fundación Jatun Sacha