The aim of Ecotrackers Foundation is to preserve the cultural and biological diversity of Ecuador. Working with indigenous communities, in the rainforest, the sierra, and at the coast. We cooperate to develop sustainable livelihoods through community based ecotourism and related projects. Ecotrackers works to develop a form of tourism that is both intelligent and sensitive to its impact on local populations. Such tourism offers people from different worlds the opportunity to learn from each other while experiencing another culture and different relationships with the natural world
COMMUNITY BASED ECOTOURISM
Community based ecotourism is a sustainable form of tourism, designed in a culturally appropriate manner. It encourages communities to protect their resources while generating profits for local reinvestment.
Community based ecotourism provides an alternative to communities struggling to survive in our globalizing world, offering a sustainable, long term source of income and more secure future for the community.
STUDENT AND SPANISHI SCHOOL
STUDENT AND INTERNSHIPS
Ecotrackers offers students and interns the opportunity to cary out research an internships related to the organization's goals. Students may work from our Quito offices or individual communities. Projects can related to tourism, anthropology, medicine, theatre, music, dance, history, geography
environment, international development, and other fields.
SPANISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL
Ecotrackers operate a Spanish school, providing instruction for international visitors, in Spanish and other native languages. Educational material serve to orient students to the history culture, politics and daily life of Ecuador as preparation for the further studies or travels in Ecuador and Latin America.
ECOTRACKERS PHILOSOPHY
Indigenous communities are inevitably being draw into a globalizing world. Often lacking experience, education, knowledge and financial resources, they typically find themselves, disadvantages and impoverished, watching their environment being destroyed by outsiders o being drawn into aiding its destruction.
Ecotrackers empowers local indigenous communities to run their own ecotourism projects. These projects benefit the community by promoting development of infrastructure and improvements in health, education, enabling them to lead dignified and sustainable lives as part of a globalized world.
Ecotrackers believes that there are increasing number or intelligent tourist, sensitive to these issues, who will support such local initiatives. We can offer them the unique opportunity to share in the lives of others, learning from people of different cultures, in manner that is equitable and sustainable
CONTACT
Av. Amazonas N21 217 y Roca Quito Ecuador
Tels 593 2 2567957/ 2555609/ Whast Ap 0986001749
E mail domi@ecotrackersnetwork, org
E mail and video ecotrackers@gmial.com
WWW. ecotackersnetwork.org
