EcoLogic's mission

                               Our Mission

EcoLogic's mission is to empower rural people to restore and protect tropical ecosystems.

We believe that the preservation of biological diversity, ecosystems, and natural places is critically important to the survival of us all – people, plants, and animals alike. In addition to the intrinsic value of nature and wildlife, biological diversity and healthy ecosystems provide humankind with many of the things that sustain our lives, including clean air and water, fertile soil, a stabile climate, food, medicines, materials and technologies, and a diversity of genes and species – not to mention recreational opportunities and natural beauty.

EcoLogic collaborates with the rural poor in Central America and Mexico and helps local communities identify, evaluate, and prioritize their conservation and natural resource needs. We then work with them to obtain what they need – skills, financing, materials, access to decision makers and experts, hands-on experience, and other forms of support – to restore and conserve the tropical ecosystems where they live and on which they rely for basic necessities and well-being.
One of our fundamental beliefs is that the people who live near or in a threatened ecosystem are those who are best positioned to repair and protect that system for the long term. Or, put another way, we believe that when people understand that their quality of life is reliant upon the health of their natural environment and that they have a direct hand in identifying and creating ways to protect and sustainably use their natural resources, both nature and people are served.

In all of our work, EcoLogic acts strategically, community by community, building on common interests and goals, to create alliances that will lead to cumulative, positive impacts – impacts that are not just local, but on a regional scale and beyond.  It is through collaboration that we believe humankind will achieve positive, sustainable change. And though the threats are imminent and the challenges real, we are confident that through mutual cooperation and respect we still have time to conserve and protect our one shared planet, Earth.  


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