The Nature Conservancy in Ecuador

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TNC Ecuador has managed to propose solutions to different kinds of problems and then turn these into replicable processes.

First Water Fund created 2 million hectares of forests and wetlands protected 15 years protecting Galápagos Islands

The megadiversity related to its size makes Ecuador the ideal place to propose different models to implement in other geographies at scale.

Due to specific institutional conditions, TNC Ecuador has been able to replicate processes than then have been scaled in other geographies. Such is the case of Water funds, which were first created in Quito, a high-Andean landscape, and then exported globally.

As part of this success, in Ecuador we work on the “Voice, Choice, and Action Framework”—or VCA framework, a science-based community-driven approach to partnering with Indigenous peoples and local communities around shared conservation and sustainable development goals.

The Ecuador team has also worked on the development of conservation incentive models with native communities that depend on the Pacific mangrove ecosystems, strengthening these communities' ecosystem services management through sustainable crab and conch fishing.

Ecuador's threats

Deforestation in the Amazon is one of the most urgent problems. This is mostly and specifically caused by traditional unsustainable agricultural practices and urban development. River fragmentation: hydropower projects threaten one of the most important resources in Ecuador and the world. Freshwater: deforestation is a big threat, but water pollution linked to pesticides and other substances represents an increasing risk to nature. Oceans: unsustainable fisheries. Illegal international fishing, and either lack of appropiate management or overexploitation of small fisheries.

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