A wildlife corridor, habitat corridor, or green corridor is an area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities or structures (such as roads, development, or logging). This allows an exchange of individuals between populations, which may help prevent the negative effects of inbreeding and reduced genetic diversity (via genetic drift) that often occur within isolated populations. Corridors may also help facilitate the re-establishment of populations that have been reduced or eliminated due to random events (such as fires or disease).

The Tropical Andes is the most biologically diverse of all the hotspots.The Neblina Reserve consists of over 2,200 hectares of threatened high altitude cloud forest in north-west Ecuador. Neblina Reserve is located in the Tropical Andes global biodiversity hotspot. This bioregion is about four times more diverse than Ecuador's lowland Amazon forests, and far more threatened.


Rainforest Concern is committed to continuing to extend the Neblina Reserve to expand the overall biological corridor. This project consisted on mapping and surveying the pieces of land bought by Rainforest Concern for creating a continuous protected forest from the Cotacachi Cayapas Reserve in the north through to the Taminaga Grande community forest in the south.

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