Two months with Ecotrackers on the river Morona

My project:
My project was to help a guy called Orlando Montufar with vitalising the zone surrounding the peruvian-ecuadorian border on the river Morona.







This river is Ecuador´s most direct way to the big rivers of Peru, the Amazon and Brazil.





My work consisted of a lot of different things – all in all I was helping Orlando in whatever he was doing in order to develop the zone in a sustainable way, so people can have alternatives to cutting down trees, fishing, hunting and cattle (which all damage the rainforest). I helped prepare the Ecotrackers house in the village San José de Morona for further volunteers, later on coordinated four volunteers and helped them teach in the village, built a shelter in the middle of the rainforest, and later on I helped prepare a six-day journey to San Lorenzo(the first Peruvian city downriver) in which I also went. My work was very varied and I had a lot of responsibility.