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EcoMinga
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EcoMinga Foundation:
benefitting the
environment through the Arts
Please visit our Virtual
Art Show
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An as-yet-unnamed Teagueia orchid,
one of many discovered in the Upper Pastaza
Watershed by the botanists who are board members of EcoMinga. |
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Photo: Christoph Hirtz
- Poster design: Max Benavides |
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Ecuador
is home to more than
4000 unique plant species found nowhere else in the world; many of
these are threatened by the rapid deforestation taking place here. In
July 2005 a group of concerned Ecuadorian and international scientists
and conservationists started a foundation to do something to save these
plants and the other threatened organisms of Ecuador's forests.
We are: Lou
Jost, biodiversity specialist, resident in Ecuador, Calaway Dodson,
curator emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden and
renowned expert on Ecuadorian orchids, recently decorated by the
President of Ecuador for his half-century of investigation here; Nigel
Simpson, a founder of the Jocotoco Foundation and
enthusiastic
conservationist, decorated this year by the Queen of England for his
conservation work; Juan
Manuel Carrion, well-known Ecuadorian
ornithologist, conservationist; Simon
Espinosa Cordero, universally respected member of the Comisión
Anti-corrupción del Municipio de Quito;
Homero
Vargas,
former director
of the National Herbarium of Ecuador; Lori and
Juan Miguel Espinoza,
educators of international students in Ecuador; Johanna
Twelvetrees,
cofounder
of a successful conservation foundation in NW Ecuador; Mike McColm,
cofounder of the Jatun Sacha Foundation; Ray Swanson,
graphics artist
and environmentalist; Francesca
Rota,
well-known Ecuadorian artist; Ron
Kaufmann,
biologist and orchid conservationist; Howard Teich, New
Yorker active in progressive causes; Ximena de
Salvador,
biology
educator in Ecuador. The botanists on this board have
personally discovered or scientifically described many of Ecuador's
endemic plants, and all members of the board have an emotional tie to
the beautiful forests we have studied or visited here. We intend to
work hard to save them while we still can.
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