At 19,347 feet, Cotopaxi is currently the world's highest active volcano.

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The Conservancy works to conserve critical biodiversity found on indigenous lands.
Find out what we do in the Ecuadorian Amazon
This area has one of the largest concentrations of bird species in Ecuador, with more than 500 registered species.
Find out what we are doing in Podocarpus National Park
This reserve protects a wider array of marine species than the Galápagos, the country’s only other marine protected area.
Find out what we are doing in the Galera-San Francisco Marine Reserve
This forests are located in two distinct areas: on the central Pacific coastline in the Cordillera de la Costa Mountains and on the southern coast near the Peruvian border in Tumbes-Piura area.
Find out what we are doing in the dry forests
This is perhaps the most ambitious single conservation project in Ecuador. The region is is a 5.4 million-acre mosaic of public protected areas, farms, ranches, and indigenous territories.
Find out what we are doing in the Condor Bioreserve
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