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Earthwatch International , 3 Clock Tower Place, Suite 100, Box
75, Maynard, MA 01754, 800-776-0188/978-461-0081, fax 978-461-

2332, organizes conservation expeditions, including coastal cloud for-
est projects.

212-279-7813, is a non-
profit organization dedicated to promotion of community-based tropi-
cal forest preservation. They worked with Earthwatch on a coastal
cloud forest project.

People Allied for Nature , in New York,

The Nature Conservancy , 4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100,
Arlington, VA 22203-1606,

800-628-6860/703-841-5300, www.na-
ture.org, [e-mail], is a major international organization
dedicated to preserving intact areas of natural land.

Rainforest Action Network , 221 Pine St., Suite 500, San Fran-
cisco, CA 94104,

415-398-4404, fax [phone], www.ran.org,
[e-mail], “has been working to protect tropical rainforests
and the human rights of those living in and around those forests”
since 1985. They have actively supported indigenous rights and con-
servation in the upper Ecuadorian Amazon.

Rainforest InformationCentre (RIC), POBox 368, Lismore, NSW
2480, Australia,

61-2-66-213294, www.rainforestinfo.org.au,
[e-mail], is an Australian NGO (Non-
Governmental Organization) founded in 1981 to protect the rain-
forests of the world and has also played an integral role in supporting
Ecuadorian Amazon conservation efforts.

Ecuadorian Organizations
This is not a complete list. Other organizations are highlighted in the
relevant chapters.

Acción Ecologia , Alejandro de Valdez 24-33 and La Gasca, Casilla
17-15-246C, Quito,

/fax [phone], [e-mail], is an activist
environmental watchdog group.

Andrate Ecological Foundation , García Moreno 804 and 9 de
Octubre, Edificio Inca, Casilla 5800, Guayaquil,

4-2292-860, fax 4-
290-740. Tropical dry forest reserve within the Churute Mangrove
Ecological Reserve.

Center of Ecological and Cultural Study and Education
(CIDECO), Los Corazónes 113, Otavalo,

2-2921-163. Focuses on
environmental issues around Otavalo and the Imbabura Province.