Impact Booster
It all begins with an idea.
Biomas Adventures wants to become a positive impact booster. Biomas Adventures wants to ensure responsible ecotourism and truthful programs that reconcile our idea of travelling to leave the place we adventure in better than how we found it before.
Biomas Adventures is an impact booster that collaborates with local organizations and initiatives, promoting systematic changes fundamentally based on the theory of change.
Cameras for Conservation - Cameras for Education Program
It all begins with an idea.
Cameras for Conservation - Cameras for Education (CCCE) is a program that contributes to the development of scientific research, education, communications, and tourism in Ecuador Tropical Dry Forest (TDFs) landscape. TDF are part of one of the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot regions in South America, the Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Biodiversity Hotspot.
Therefore, actions related to wildlife monitoring for conservation allow the recognition and value of TDFs, boosting changes in social perceptions, local educational enhancement, and justification of sustainable use and management of the TDFs goods and services in Ecuador.
In 2018, this program was started and led by Wild GYE Initiative, an initiative promoting biodiversity conservation in one of the 33 th most biodiverse emergent city on the planet, Guayaquil (GYE) - Ecuador. CCCE run the camera trapping research project that was implemented in Cerro Blanco Protected Forest, a 6000 ha forest that is located in the outskirts of the city and within the Cordillera Chongon Colonche Coastal Mountain Ridge. Tropical Forest ecosystem type holds over 300 resident/migratory bird species (30% endemic), 55 mammal species (10% endemic), over 40 species of reptiles and amphibians (10% endemic).
Some incredible outcomes were achieved:
1st fully conducted camera trapping research project, obtaining outstanding wildlife photo/video records
Awarded by the Municipality of Guayaquil as best sustainable initiative 2017/2018
Participated at the Communication, Education and Public Awareness Fair at the COP14 - Convention of Biological Diversity in Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt.
Outreach and edu-communication reaching of over 16 thousand people.
Publication of 2 Books: Mammals and Birds Edition of the Tropical Dry Forests of Cerro Blanco. Over 2000 prints sold/donated to Ecuadorians (Ecuador is not a reading book-prone country). This is a complete success
Featured at Forbes - Global South section and other local newspapers/TV channels and events.
Granted by Cayuga Bird Club - New York to successfully deliver an outreach campaign for 200 kids of local and marginalized communities living along the Cordillera Chongon Colonche Coastal Mountain Ridge.
Partner with NGOs to work on the Return of The King Program, a conservation program developed after identifying the importance of Cordillera Chongon Colonche Coastal Mountain Ridge as a great landscape to protect last population of King Vultures (Sarcoramphus papa) in coastal Ecuador.