Jama Coaque Reserve Impressions
Jama Coaque Reserve Impressions

Rainforest Reforestation & Climate Change Mitigation in Western Ecuador

Third Millennium Alliance (3MAlliance) is a nonprofit Ecosystem Services organization. Our focus is the restoration of critically-endangered ecosystems of exceptionally high ecological and biological value. The basis of our work is a dual approach that integrates conservation of intact forest with reforestation of previously-degraded land, particularly through agroforestry. The Choco-Manabi Corridor in western Ecuador - one of the most ecologically-diverse and endangered ecosystems on the planet - is our area of operations. 3MAlliance's Jama-Coaque Reserve protects one of the last remnants of rainforest in this global biodiversity hotspot. Our most urgent priority is to expand the Jama-Coaque Reserve throughout 618 acres of surrounding rainforest, which is currently unprotected and diminishing by the day.


Choco-Manabi Corridor
The Choco-Manabi Corridor along the Pacific coast of South America

News

November 12, 2009: Thanks to the financial support of our contributors, Third Millennium Alliance has just expanded the Jama-Coaque Ecological Reserve by acquiring another 91 acres of rainforest. This new addition includes the entirety of the Strangler Fig Creek and all land that drains into it. The creek is born in the cloud forest along the upper reaches of the coastal mountain range and descends 1,500 feet to the Rio Camarones. The Jama-Coaque Reserve now occupies 501 acres of forest, which means that we have (almost exactly)  reached the midpoint of the goal we set ourselves two years ago - to bring the entire 1,000-acre upper river valley under protection.

October 11, 2009: The first-ever (short) documentary film on the Jama-Coaque Reserve is now available. It is a 5-minute preview of a feature-length documentary to be completed in 2010. View the Preview now in our Gallery Section!

August 21, 2009: 3MAlliance, together with 11 other institutions across the globe, is now launching the Rainforest Carbon Partnership (RCP). RCP is a coalition of businesses, non-profit organizations, governmental institutions, and communities working in unison to reduce atmospheric carbon by means of rainforest conservation and restoration. Starting with the rainforest and cloud forest surrounding the Jama-Coaque Reserve, and then expanding outward throughout a 40,000-acre bioregion, RCP has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by over 5 million tons.