Combining negotiation, legal backing and orchids to create ecotourism reserve

Mongabay
Oct 22, 2019, 6:06 pm171 pts
On the 650-hectare (1,600-acre) El Pahuma Orchid Reserve in Andean cloud forest, you can find over 300 species of orchids, and even a handful of endangered spectacled bears. If you had visited the area, in the northwestern corner of Pichincha, Ecuador, 20 years ago, you might not have imagined that this…

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