You'll definitely need boots. He isn't talking about leather hiking boots, but about high-riding rubber boots, which he says are one of three essential items for a journey into the Ecuadorian rainforest. High-octane mosquito repellant and long pants are the other two. Created in 1979, Ecuador's Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve is located between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Work that seeks to protect precious, but now-threatened natural resources and promote improvements in the lives of families now living among or around these resources.
Tropical forests are great storehouses of natural life.
They are home to more than half the world's species and they can provide sustainable supplies of water, food, timber and numerous other resources if both managed and protected properly. But the over-exploitation of forests has wiped out more than half of the world's original tropical forest cover. Communities living in and around the reserve depend on the use of surrounding resources to survive. In Ecuador, the legacy of logging has been equally damaging and continues to pose a threat to the future of the country's natural resources. To combat this, the Ecuadorian government has created a number of conservation areas.