Results

Since 1993, EcoLogic has helped over 700 communities in Latin America to improve their well-being and become stewards of their land. Collaborating with local partners, EcoLogic has established sustainable livelihoods and strengthened community participation in natural resource management, creating more than 5,000 jobs and providing support for the conservation of over 6 million acres of critical habitat and the protection of over 1,200 water sources.

The results described below were made possible by the support EcoLogic provides in partnership.

Country Specific

Belize

  • 42,018 acres of coastal wetlands and mangrove forests protected
  • Landmark legal victory achieved for indigenous lands rights for communities buffering the park
  • Five village resource centers built that offer eco-friendly tourism activities coordinated by locals
  • Two river campsites built to further river-based ecotourism development
  • 5 communities engaged in formulating strategies for community leadership in natural resource management
  • Community-led mapping of 34 corn fields that posed an agricultural expansion threat to the national park and identification of suitable alternative areas to cultivate
  • Major illegal mahogany logging operation within the park identified and halted
  • Permitting system established for legal extraction of select species from the national park that will be managed by local authorities in conjunction with park rangers

Guatemala

  • 355,780 acres of forest conserved
  • 90,000 trees planted using a new, more efficient reforestation technology
  • 182 clean burning stoves built
  • 75 voluntary community forest guards trained
  • 737 people trained in sustainable resource management
  • 1,200 water springs protected and maintained

Honduras

  • 444,790 acres of coastal wilderness under sustainable management or protection
  • 5,000 trees planted in community managed lands
  • 570 clean burning stoves built
  • 62 communities now involved in microwatershed protection work, covering 16 microwatersheds
  • 134 latrines, 77 enclosed compost digesters, and 64 drain systems built in design to improve water filtration and groundwater storage

Mexico

  • 617,763 of forest under community management or protection
  • 500 community members trained in watershed protection
  • Communities organized to support fire prevention activities

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