Results

Regional

EcoLogic has a track record of leveraging resources to achieve the greatest impact in the environmentally sensitive rural areas where we work. Since opening its doors in 1993, EcoLogic has worked with tens of thousands of rural people in more than 5,000 Latin American communities. We have provided essential support for the protection of 6.5 million acres of unique and threatened wildlife habitat while protecting more than 2,000 vital sources of fresh water. We have also helped create over 5,000 new jobs for local villagers.

We have developed a replicable and scalable model for organizations in the Global North to act as grassroots support organizations working in partnership with nonprofit groups and local communities in the Global South. We have introduced people-centered environmentalism to hundreds of thousands of people in the nonprofit, government, corporate, and educational realms, where our approach to grassroots environmental stewardship continues to be replicated without our direct involvement.

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
  • Advisory committee established to determine local priorities for upcoming bi-national natural resource management negotiations
  • 18 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
  • 118,000 community members benefiting from safe drinking water
  • 1,200 water springs protected and maintained
  • Award-winning program implemented in Payment for Ecosystem Services
  • Areas demarcated to petition for protected area status in Sierra Cuchumatanes
  • Alliance created with FUNDAECO to design a regional system of protected areas north of Huehuetenango
  • 10 community parcels planted with agroforestry products now ready to scale up to commercialization levels


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
  • 370,000 people in 90 communities benefiting
  • 60 community capacity-building workshops taught
  • 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
  • 140,000 trees made up of 14 different species planted by Pico Bonito Forests
  • 185 local people employed in reforestation activities by Pico Bonito Forests

Mexico

  • 617,763 of forest under community management or protection
  • 130 people participating in sustainable livelihoods programs
  • 500 community members trained in watershed protection
  • Water analyses of Papagayo River tributaries completed
  • Network of 26 community-managed protected areas established with tree nurseries to provide seedlings for restoration and reforestation; communities involved span over 600,000 acres of important upland habitat which now form a coordinated biological corridor
  • Communities organized to support fire prevention activities
  • Boundaries demarcated and species surveys conducted with local forestry experts in upland protected zones
  • Design of technical management plan initiated for the network of the protected areas
  • Partnership negotiated with COMEX, a large Mexican paint company, to create a project that will produce paint thinner from sustainably harvested pine resin; this project will impact 10,000 rural inhabitants and create 1,500 new jobs

 

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