ABC Partner: ECOAN

The Asociación de Ecosistemas Andinos (ECOAN, the Andean Ecosystem Association) works to conserve birds and other wildlife and their ecosystems in the Andes of Peru. ECOAN works with communities to protect dwindling high-altitude forests. The Association has projects in environmental education, ecotourism, as well as conservation biological research.

Partnership Activities:
Among the projects on which American Bird Conservancy has worked with partner ECOAN are restoration of Polylepis woodlands, a unique high-altitude forest important for mountain birds; protection of lands for endangered species such as the Marvelous Spatuletail (a hummingbird), Junín Grebe, and Royal Cinclodes; conservation of Abra Patricia Reserve, a site for the Long-whiskered Owlet and many other rare and endangered Andean birds; and protecting Neotropical migrants in the Andes by building a strategic protected area network.