Through the Bosque Medicinal – Healing Forest project, you can join the mission to protect the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and help preserve this unique ecosystem. Your support is already yielding tangible results – and our work is far from over!

We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to your support and the incredible dedication of our volunteers, we have reached a historic milestone. After a year of tireless effort, we raised 1 million CZK, moving our neighbor so deeply that they agreed to sell us 50 hectares of rainforest, where deforestation will cease immediately. Additionally, they have halted logging on another 35 hectares with sacred waterfalls, granting us until the end of 2025 to secure the funds needed to purchase it.

Our representatives have already traveled to Ecuador to finalize the details of this groundbreaking agreement. We feel immense gratitude and humility for the journey we've shared – thanks to all of you who contributed financially, supported us, or lent a helping hand. Your hearts beat for the rainforest, and we cannot thank you enough.

 

The land we are working to save is extraordinary in its location and biodiversity. It includes unique cascading waterfalls and untouched rainforest. Without intervention, deforestation would leave it degraded, transformed into clay swamps and overrun by invasive grass species.

By acquiring this land, we will create a protective buffer zone for neighboring reserves like El Paraiso, restore habitats for endangered species, and combat illegal logging and poaching.

 

Subsequently, due to the changes in the small water cycle, accelerated erosion, and impacts of El Niño, the original forest will irreversibly become a landscape devoid of green vegetation and original life. The photos are not illustrative but are taken by our volunteers.

 

At the moment, the land is still largely wooded and it also includes a smaller watercourse with two unique cascading waterfalls. Moreover, it is located next to the existing El Paraiso reserve and also next to our almost one hundred-hectare territory, which we have already managed to save from liquidation in recent years. Thus it meets the criteria of a protective buffer zone (barrier) and thanks to its location in close proximity to our station, it is available to us for physical monitoring, as a basis for protection against poachers and illegal miners.
 

Is the rainforest calling you?
In addition to the financial donation, thanks to which we will save another piece of the forest in the region of "Morona Santiago" - the protected area of "Runahurco" (near the city of Gualaquiza), you can also join us and participate in any volunteer stay in "El Refugio", in the virgin nature of Ecuadorian rainforest: https://forestink.net/volunteer/

This milestone is just the beginning. To protect more areas and ensure the sustainability of our efforts, regular support is key. Monthly contributions allow us to plan ahead, protect larger areas of the rainforest, and respond to challenges more effectively.

Become a regular donor and help us write the next chapters of this hopeful story. Small, consistent steps lead to big miracles.

How Can You Help?

You can support us in several ways:

Gifts are shipped via Zásilkovna (please indicate your nearest branch) or can be picked up at Světlo Vesmíru, Prague 5 – Smíchov.

 

Forest.Ink z.s. is a Czech nonprofit organization focused on nature conservation, particularly the Amazon rainforest. Our mission is to foster sustainable development and restore humanity’s connection with nature. Collaborating with universities in the Czech Republic and Ecuador, our projects document the return of endangered species and the positive impact on biodiversity.

Your support changes the world. Give the rainforest life – whether with a one-time or regular donation – and it will repay us all.
Thank you for helping us protect our planet!

 

The goal of the Bosque Medicinal project is to maintain the rare biodiversity of the rainforest and support the sustainable development of the Ecuadorian Amazon region through land acquisition, volunteer stays, research, education, and the development of ecotourism. We carry out monitoring both personally and with the help of a network of camera traps on the purchased plots of land. In this way, we manage to record the return of protected species and reduce poaching and illegal mining in the area. The project is managed by the organization Forest.Ink z.s. and the Bosque Medicinal Fundacion.

 
https://www.bosquemedicinal.com/

 

Bosque Medicinal Fundacion - sister non-profit organization, registered in Ecuador. It is dedicated to the protection of rainforests in the Ecuadorian Amazon,  deals with Ecuadorian institutions, and is the owner of purchased land. 

 

The foundation president Roman Kollár about the project: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXOfdLXGwIE

The main partners of the project in the academic field are the Mendel University in Brno (the guarantor is Mr. Ing. Jiří Schneider, Ph.D., the dean of the Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies) and the Universidad del Azuay in Cuenca, Ecuador, which, with its  activities and student stays at our station, help to fulfill the goals of the project and develop it in other areas as well. In addition to local students, we have also been visited by students from the Czech University of Life Sciences who during their stay,  collected materials for the elaboration of their bachelor's and master's theses, which have practical benefits for our project as well. We also cooperate with other Czech universities.

 

You can watch the  short video about our project here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1FZWMTLiaU