Amazon Community Reserve, Tsuraku, is a 4,500 hectare site communally owned by the local native Shuar group in the Pastaza Province in Amazonian Ecuador. The Reserve’s objectives are to provide development initiatives to the communities of the reserve, and help them conserve their environment. The reserve is focused on promoting sustainable environmental practices, especially among the Shuar people. One important focus of the reserve is Mahogany, a hardwood species that grows in abundance at this site and is commercially extinct and becoming scarce throughout its biological range in Ecuador.

Projects and Activities: Infrastructure enhancement inside the Reserve.
• EcoMadera project has the aim of improve technology for sustainable timber extraction
  and create possibilities for fair trade.
• Biodiversity studies (transects establishment)
• Mapping of endangered plant species, such as mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla).
• Farm and forest cover mapping for Ahuano (Swietenia macrophylla) studies.
• Taylor guitars (Techniques enhancement for timber extraction and commercialization).
• Environmental Education in Tsantsa High School.
• Reforestation in one communitarian hectare.
• Ecological trail at Tsantsa High School.
• Medicinal and native plants garden development
• English teaching at the neighboring schools (Uwijint).
• Waste managing.
• Fish farming with native species.



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