Mamoní Valley Preserve, Panama

ecoReserve’s first reserve project is located on 5,000 acres of semi-degraded rainforest in Panama’s Mamoní Valley. This land is at the narrowest part of the Meso-American Biological Corridor through which thousands of species migrate each year. It has been partially deforested by logging and cattle-ranching. Our local NGO partner is Earth Train, a U.S. nonprofit founded by Nathan Gray (Oxfam America co-founder) that has been in the area for eight years. Earth Train and its conservation staff will work with scientists from the California Academy of Sciences and local community members to map, reforest, manage and monitor the land. Earth Train is also partnering with the indigenous Kuna people who live near the reserve.