HEADWATERS TO THE AMAZON
Finding Species contributes to the conservation of the Amazon and the Eastern Andes to strengthen environmental policies, programs and projects through local governments. Finding Species aims to document the use of water by human populations and how the habitat is changing and its threats. The study of the hydrological cycle in the Oriental Andes and the Amazon determines its effect on human life.
Finding Species seeks to accomplish this by documenting the origins of the Amazon River from its source in the Ecuadorian Andes to Alto Napo in the territory of Ecuador by means of pictures and videos. Thus, highlight in the importance of interconnection between ecosystems spanning the tributaries of the Ecuadorian Amazon and their connection to human activities and their environmental impact.
By encouraging local government decision makers to consider reducing the environmental impacts between the Andes and the Amazon in their policies and programs, Finding Species hopes to minimize impacts on the environment and protect these vital waterways. A key issue is to promote attitudinal changes among the inhabitants of the cities settled on the banks of the rivers of the eastern slope and to manage natural resources in an appropriate manner by means of awareness. Ecuador is already working with National Coordinators of the Initiative for Regional Infrastructure Integration, IIRSA, since they have started commercial travel along the Napo, and IIRSA could pose a serious threat to the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Eight photographic expeditions have transpired since 2011. These expeditions include; rising of the Aguarico River - San Miguel River and Putumayo River, Cayambe, lagoon of San Marcos (rising Rio Quijos), Oyacachi river(rising Rio Quijos), Rio Quijos and Papallacta springs (paramo of the Virgin), Antisana (rising Rio Quijos), Rio Mulatos and Pisayambo Lakes, Banos and Puyo (Pastaza River Springs), and Sangay National Park(Palora River rising)
In November 2011 Finding Species signed an agreement with CONGOPE (Consortium of provincial of the Ecuador autonomous governments) that allows us to convene andconsult decision-makers and technicians of the provincial governments about the needs and expectations of water resources in tributaries of the Amazon basin. A strategic partner of the project is the OECO Association, producing a documentary video of the tributaries to the Amazon called Headwaters to the Amazon. The documentary is now available courtesy of OECO
Finding Species seeks to accomplish this by documenting the origins of the Amazon River from its source in the Ecuadorian Andes to Alto Napo in the territory of Ecuador by means of pictures and videos. Thus, highlight in the importance of interconnection between ecosystems spanning the tributaries of the Ecuadorian Amazon and their connection to human activities and their environmental impact.
By encouraging local government decision makers to consider reducing the environmental impacts between the Andes and the Amazon in their policies and programs, Finding Species hopes to minimize impacts on the environment and protect these vital waterways. A key issue is to promote attitudinal changes among the inhabitants of the cities settled on the banks of the rivers of the eastern slope and to manage natural resources in an appropriate manner by means of awareness. Ecuador is already working with National Coordinators of the Initiative for Regional Infrastructure Integration, IIRSA, since they have started commercial travel along the Napo, and IIRSA could pose a serious threat to the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Eight photographic expeditions have transpired since 2011. These expeditions include; rising of the Aguarico River - San Miguel River and Putumayo River, Cayambe, lagoon of San Marcos (rising Rio Quijos), Oyacachi river(rising Rio Quijos), Rio Quijos and Papallacta springs (paramo of the Virgin), Antisana (rising Rio Quijos), Rio Mulatos and Pisayambo Lakes, Banos and Puyo (Pastaza River Springs), and Sangay National Park(Palora River rising)
In November 2011 Finding Species signed an agreement with CONGOPE (Consortium of provincial of the Ecuador autonomous governments) that allows us to convene andconsult decision-makers and technicians of the provincial governments about the needs and expectations of water resources in tributaries of the Amazon basin. A strategic partner of the project is the OECO Association, producing a documentary video of the tributaries to the Amazon called Headwaters to the Amazon. The documentary is now available courtesy of OECO
