Sustainable tourism
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What we strive for is that visitors will, through the unique experience of seeing the rainforest through the eyes of the people who live here, gain insights that will make you new allies in our common struggle to defend the rainforest.
Ecuador has the distinction of having the highest deforestation rate and worst environmental record in South America. Oil exploration, logging, and road building have had a disastrous impact on Ecuador's primary rainforests, which now cover less than 15% of the country's land mass. In total, between 1990 and 2005, Ecuador lost about 21.5% of its forest cover. The deforestation rate has increased by 17% since the close of the 1990s.
Just by being here, you help community-based ecotourism maintain a way of life for the Huaorani independent of gifts and handouts from oil companies. This venture links the Huaorani to tourism as an alternative means of income in their irreversibly-changed world, enabling them to preserve their culture, heritage, and traditions and at the same time conserve the land.
If you wish to contribute money to the Conservation in Action Foundation, please speak to the Lodge Administrator.
