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Touch The Jungle
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Here at Riverwalk Bengals, we support "Touch the Jungle", an Ecuador rainforest
conservation and social justice project run by a volunteer group
sponsored by Earthways Foundation. The Ecuadorian rainforest
village of Playa de Oro have recently created the world's first
margay sanctuary: the Playa de Oro Reserva de Tigrillos.
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Please browse through their
Touch The Jungle
website to learn how they are preserving this important and
increasingly rare rainforest habitat and the neotropical felines
that live there. You are invited to visit and assist this important
project through our available Group Tours or Independent Travel.
The
project's goals are:
- Help local residents protect their ancestral lands from
encroaching lumber companies, and provide them with a sustainable
income earned by protecting rather than destroying their forest.
Protect the six species of neo-tropical felids native to this
area, with a particular focus on the smaller species such as
margays, ocelots, oncilas, and jaguarundis, which have received
little attention from conservationists and remain largely unknown to
the public.
Operate a lodge in the heart of the rainforest where students,
researchers, and ecologically-minded visitors can live in rustic
comfort while collecting data on these little-studied species and
other rainforest fauna and flora.
A safe place for the release of endangered cats back into the
wild; especially small cats such as margays and oncillas confiscated
from (illegal) exotic animal traffickers.
For more information, contact
project founder
Rosa
Jordan
via email.
 
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