Land protection
World Land Trust's support focuses on purchasing 485 hectares and legally securing further connected land.
Protecting a sanctuary in Ecuador
World Land Trust
Extreme Psychiatry's largest charity allocation is supporting World Land Trust's Buy an Acre work with Fundación EcoMinga.
Why we're supporting them
The supported project lies in the Llanganates-Sangay corridor in eastern Ecuador. It is designed to connect small but important reserves with Sangay National Park, creating a larger and more resilient conservation area.
Rare wildlife
The landscape supports spectacled bears, mountain tapirs, Andean condors and highly threatened amphibians.
Local partnership
Fundación EcoMinga protects Andean forests and grasslands with local rangers and communities.
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The supported project
Sanctuary of Waterfalls and Wildlife
Fundación EcoMinga's work connects reserves across montane forest, páramo grassland and waterfalls in the Tropical Andes.
Why this corridor matters
The project aims to create direct connections between existing reserves and Sangay National Park. Better-connected habitat gives threatened wildlife more room and makes the wider conservation area more resilient.
The project brief identifies deforestation, agricultural expansion, forest-fire risk and illegal hunting as the main threats.
Meet the wildlife
Wildlife of the Llanganates and Sangay corridor
Each card opens World Land Trust's fuller species or project information.
Vulnerable
Spectacled bear
Tremarctos ornatus
South America's only bear. Its pale facial markings are unique to each animal, and it depends on connected Andean habitat.
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Endangered
Mountain tapir
Tapirus pinchaque
The smallest tapir species, yet the largest mammal in the tropical Andes. It spreads seeds as it moves through forest and páramo.
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Vulnerable
Andean condor
Vultur gryphus
A vast mountain scavenger with a wingspan of up to 3.15 metres. It is also Ecuador's national bird.
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Endangered
Black-and-chestnut eagle
Spizaetus isidori
One of the Andes' largest eagles. It needs dense, undisturbed montane forest and has fewer than 1,000 mature birds.
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Critically Endangered + Endangered
Rare rainfrogs
Pristimantis punzan + Pristimantis tungurahua
The endemic Punzan rainfrog was only identified by EcoMinga in 2014. It shares this landscape with the endemic Tungurahua rainfrog pictured here.
Explore the official projectConservation status and species information: World Land Trust and its Ecuador project brief. Project images are used to promote this fundraising campaign with the credits shown above.
Monthly progress
Watch the acre map grow
This is a campaign progress visual. It will be updated from World Land Trust's monthly confirmation of funds received and the equivalent acres protected.
Location shown for orientation, not as a project-boundary map.
Current campaign equivalent1 acre
Tracker scale1 square = 1 acre
The first square records the campaign team's reported fundraising equivalent. WLT will provide monthly receipts and acreage updates; those confirmations will replace this provisional starting point.
- 1 acre fundraising equivalent reported by the campaign team; WLT receipt confirmation pending.
From the partner
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This page starts with information published by the organisation itself. As the charity shares specific news about how Extreme Psychiatry's fundraising is helping, we can add it here without sending supporters away from the campaign story.
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