We defined La Ceiba Conservation and Development Area as a geographic space constituted by a nucleus area of NCI property (La Ceiba Natural Reserve), which integrates and respects the consuetudinary rights, of the neighbouring communities of Ecuador and Peru, on the forest. The CDA articulates the needs of development to which the population aspires, by the principles of sustainable development and territorial organization that the institutional mission demands, in order to guarantee human well-being and the conservation of biodiversity, entirely by means of unified management of the premises.
Located south west of the province of Loja, canton Zapotillo, La Ceiba CDA, includes 25,000 acres of Tumbesian Dry Forest, with 17 populations, 370 families and 1,660 people approximately, whose main activities are the raising of goat and bovine cattle, and growing seasonal corn. It hosts an interesting biodiversity, including 31 species of endemic birds (11 threatened by extinction), 20 species of amphibians and reptiles; and 56 species of trees, some for the construction-use like guayacán and hualtaco.
The organization of the exploitation of the natural resources, the improvement of the local productive systems and the construction of sustainable alternatives of development, are the main lines of action in the process undertaken in the area. The final mission is to obtain the sufficient social organization to consolidate a management-sharing structure, which allows the local communities to assume the rights and responsibilities, individual and collective, to make the sustainability of the CDA viable.
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