Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco (Jocotoco Conservation Foundation) is an Ecuadorian non-governmental environmental organization. It was established to purchase and protect land important to the conservation of endangered birds in Ecuador.[1]

Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco established its first reserve, the Tapichalaca Biological Reserve, in 1998 to protect the type locality and main range of the newly discovered Jocotoco antpitta (Grallaria ridgelyi).[2] The reserve now protects more than 2870 hectares of forest and an associated 380+ species of birds and numerous range-restricted plants, amphibians, mammals, and invertebrates.[3][4][5]

Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco has established eleven reserves protecting 16,000 hectares (40,000 acres):

Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco supports an active research program at the reserves. Projects include:

  • Documenting reproductive biology and identifying critical breeding habitat of Esmeraldas woodstar in coastal Ecuador[9]

References

  1. "Fundación Jocotoco Ecuador". Fundación Jocotoco - Jocotours.
  2. Krabbe, N. Agro, D.J., Rice, N.H., Jacome, M., Navarrete, L. & Sornoza M., F. 1999. A new species of antpitta (Formicariidae: Grallaria) from the southern Ecuadorian Andes. Auk 116: 882-890.
  3. Harris, J. B. C., D. Tirira, P. Álvarez, and V. Mendoza. 2008. Altitudinal range extension for Cebus albifrons (Primates: Cebidae) in southern Ecuador. Neotropical Primates 15:22-24 pdf full text
  4. Harris, J. B. C., R. L. Carpio A., M. K. Chambers, and H. F. Greeney. 2008. Altitudinal and geographical range extension for Bicoloured Antvireo Dysithamnus occidentalis punctitectus in south-east Ecuador, with notes on its nesting ecology. Cotinga 30: 63-65.
  5. Breure, A. S. H.; Borrero, F. J. (2008). "An annotated checklist of the land snail family Orthalicidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea) in Ecuador, with notes on the distribution of the mainland species". Zootaxa. 1768 (1): 1–40. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1768.1.1.
  6. "Pechiche: el árbol que puede salvar al segundo colibrí más pequeño del mundo en Ecuador". Noticias ambientales (in Spanish). 2020-06-16. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  7. "New project to protect El Oro Parakeet". BirdGuides. 2019-08-05. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  8. "What this alien-looking creature is -- and why you shouldn't be afraid of it". ZME Science. 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  9. Harris, J. Berton C.; Ágreda, Ana E.; Juiña, Mery E.; Freymann, Bernd P. (2009). "Distribution, plumage, and conservation status of the endemic (Chaetocercus berlepschi) of western Ecuador". The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 121 (2): 227–239. doi:10.1676/08-079.1.
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