Gallery
Interior of a remnant patch of original cloud forest at Centinela, November 2021. Photo by Thomas L. P. Couvreur.
The long-lost forest herb Gasteranthus extinctus, rediscovered in 2021 in the Centinela region. Photo by Nigel Pitman.
Centinela's remnant forests hold a healthy population of the Critically Endangered understory palm, Geonoma tenuissima. Photo by Thomas L. P. Couvreur.
This exceptionally large fragment of mature, healthy forest is home to a group of Ecuadorian mantled howler monkeys. This forest is a primary target for conservation, and is identified as Fragment1 in the maps. Photo by Dawson White.
Juan Guevara of the Universidad de Las Americas collecting a specimen of the critically endangered endemic tree Browneopsis macrofoliolata. Photo by Riley Fortier.
Nico Zapata of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador with a fern specimen. Photo by Thomas L. P. Couvreur.
One of eight waterfalls at the spectacular privately owned forest fragment Bosques y Cascadas Las Rocas. Photo by Nigel Pitman.
The critically endangered, black-leaved, Gasteranthus atratus. Photo by Thomas L.P. Couvreur.
Fruits of a new species of Sciodaphyllum from the Centinela region. Photo by Thomas L. P. Couvreur.
A typical landscape view in the Centinela region: a mix of banana, cacao, and balsa plantations, cattle pasture, and remnant patches of the original cloud forest. Photo by Nicolás Zapata.
Melina plantation; a most typical view in the Centinela region. Photo by Nigel Pitman.
Evidence of active deforestation, this property was felled in 2020. Photo by Dawson White.
Remnants of the Centinela forest flora persisting in a cattle pasture. Photo by Nigel Pitman.
Xavier Cornejo (left) and Riley Fortier (right) photographing, recording data, and pressing their collections before taking them to the herbaria at the University of Guayaquil (GUAY) and the National Herbarium (QCNE). Photo by Dawson White.
Professors Xavier Cornejo (GUAY) and Gonzalo Rivas (QUSF) examine a specimen of Meliosma gracilis, a western-Ecuador endemic described by Cornejo himself! Photo by Dawson White.
For more photographs of the Centinela flora, visit our iNaturalist page.