Healthy forests mean safe water for communities in North-Western Ecuador

For the past 27 months, DECOIN (Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica de Intag), a local grass-roots environmental organisation aided by Rainforest Concern, has been helping communities in Intag buy and protect the micro watersheds, their only supply of drinking water, whilst also preserving the area's extraordinary biological diversity. The importance of safeguarding this region becomes even clearer when one realises that there are only 25 such biologically diverse areas left on the entire planet. Once such areas are lost there is no way of getting them back.