Our Philosophy

We are a handful of people from Sweden and the United States with long-term presence and experience throughout South America, although our total commitment is now in Ecuador's Eastern Foothills. Our backgrounds and training differ, but among our various talents we are all dedicated conservationists and birders, and one of us has been involved professionally in birding for many years.

Quite simply, we believe that as a private company with no big-government or corporate ties to ensnare us or to divert funds from our conservation goals with high overhead costs, we can successfully take on the challenge of doing something by ourselves that will make a difference in this very special part of Ecuador.

Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary S.A. is a small independent company, privately financed and operated, and we will remain that way. We established and work closely with the non-profit Rio Pucuno Foundation, enabling us to accept donations separate from our company, to buy and protect additional rainforest for conservation in perpetuity, and to help facilitate some of our scientific, educational and community-based goals. Our key to successful land stewardship is our direct, hands-on management of our company, our lodge and our forest.

This is a deeply personal effort for all of us. We're putting our talents and our resources into what we're doing in Sumaco; our driving force is conservation, not profit. We shall maintain our commitments to forest conservation and to running a fine lodge for birders, returning profits to the land, and find the responsibility to be an exciting challenge.

We are proud of what we have already achieved in Sumaco, and eagerly anticipate our future here on the eastern slope of Ecuador's Andes.