Our Tropical Dry Forest and Marine-Coastal areas are important sites for native and migratory wildlife, but they are being faced with habitat loss, desertification and contamination. By working together with the local community to develop ecotourism sites and implement wastewater bio-treatment and regenerative agriculture, the project is creating sustainable revenue streams and raising environmental awareness for local authorities to support the conservation and restoration of this ecosystem.
The Tropical Dry Forest is under severe threat. Its conservation is crucial because it hosts an abundance of native, endemic, and migratory birds species and acts as a barrier against flooding. However, only 10% of the original Dry Forest remains because its surrounding communities resort to logging, and it faces wastewater effluent pollution, overgrazing, and ongoing desertification as well. We are working in 5 such communities to tackle these issues that affect nearly 15,000 people everyday.
Working closely with the marginalized communities of the Dry Forest (Parinas watershed), we have developed community ecotourism ventures that offer sustainable economic alternatives to logging. Additionally, our bio-treatment pilot project aims to enhance the quality of wastewater effluents through innovative, nature-based solutions. We are also training community members in hydrogeophysics for groundwater monitoring so that they can use it for regenerative grazing and restoration agriculture.
Implementing community ecotourism and addressing wastewater effluent contamination while educating local people on conservation, groundwater monitoring, and regenerative agriculture will have a tremendous impact. To ensure the longevity of this impact, we are training more than 200 people in these 5 communities along with their local governments to stabilize sources of income, promote sustainable land-use practices, and restore soil health and biodiversity to their surrounding ecosystem.
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