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Ecosystem Services
A focus on Environmental Services (ES) can provide both short-term gain—clean water, for example—and long-term gain, the preservation of the watershed that provides the water.
Livelihoods
EcoLogic’s approach was grounded in the understanding that conservation and livelihoods are deeply interconnected. We partnered to support income-generating activities while strengthening local capacity to oversee and sustain conservation efforts.
Photo Credit: Warren Darrell
Culture and Traditional Knowledge
The knowledge possessed by rural and indigenous communities directly contributes to the protection and restoration of the remarkable biodiversity of tropical ecosystems in Central America and Mexico.
Photo Credit: Isabel Carrio
Our Impact
For more than three decades, EcoLogic worked alongside rural and Indigenous partners to support locally led conservation and restoration. While EcoLogic has now closed its operations, this work continues through the strength, leadership, and commitment of these partners and the people and places they represent.
Reports
Deforestation
Globally, deforestation and forest degradation continue to take place at alarming rates. Between 2001-2010, Latin America and the Caribbean region had an estimated net loss of 179,404 km2 of woody vegetation, caused by 541,835 km2 of deforestation.
Slash and Burn Agriculture
Today, with more people than ever trying to survive in the midst of dwindling natural resources, the impact of slash-and-burn is particularly destructive and unsustainable. It exacerbates destructive impacts on already-fragile ecosystems and contributes to climate change.
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Photo Credit: Todd Shapera Photography
Climate Change
Approximately 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions result from agriculture, forestry, and other land-use change. Nature-based solutions to climate change can provide up to 37% of the emission reductions needed by 2030 to keep global temperature increases under 2℃--30% more than previously estimated.
Biodiversity Loss
Central America and southern Mexico, are a global “hotspot” for biodiversity. Central America alone makes up barely 0.1% of the world’s landmass, but is home to 7% of the world’s biological diversity. Yet this region is losing its remaining habitat, including forest, grasslands, mangroves, and freshwater bodies at one of the highest rates worldwide.
Photo Credit: Daniel Elías Batz
Our Progress
Why It Matters
