Santa Lucia Cloud Forest

Santa Lucia Cloud Forest

Infobox_protected_area | name = Santa Lucia Cloud Forest
iucn_category = II


location = El Bosque Nublado Lodge, Santa Lucia
nearest_city = Quito
country = Ecuador

Bosque Nublado Santa Lucia, translated as Santa Lucia Cloud Forest, is a cloud forest reserve, located about 80 km northwest of Quito, in the province of Pichincha, in Ecuador. This is at the far south of the southern phase of the Choco-Andean Rainforest Corridor. Rainforest Concern works with the Santa Lucia co-operative, a community-based conservation organisation dedicated to conservation and to sustainable development so that they can make a modest living whilst conserving their remaining cloud forest.

The community owns 7.3 km² (over convert|1300|acre|km2|0) of montane cloud forest, of which about 80% is still in its prime, virgin state and the area has now been declared part of a Bosque Protector (Protected Forest). The community-based organisation formed by local campesino families manage their own resources and they have three basic aims:

* to conserve and protect the cloud forest belonging to member families.
* to develop sustainable sources of income for the members of Santa Lucía.
* to benefit directly or indirectly the residents in neighboring areas.

External links

* [http://www.santaluciaecuador.com El Bosque Nublado Santa Lucia] Conservation & Ecotourism Santa Lucia
* [http://www.hillick.net/gallery/santa-lucia Santa Lucia Pics] Volunteering in Santa Lucia
* [http://www.rainforestconcern.org/projects/ecuador/ Ecuador Ecotourism] Rainforest Concern in Ecuador


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