Project Background
Fundación Cordillera Tropical (FCT) is an Ecuadorian conservation Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that focuses its efforts in the Nudo del Azuay, the mountainous region in the southern sector of Ecuador’s Parque Nacional Sangay. The organization bases its environmental development and management work in civil society, particularly with rural inhabitants, and sees them as forming a powerful tool in the protection and recuperation of natural ecosystems.
Focus Area
The Nudo del Azuay (NDA), or “Azuay’s Knot” in English, is situated inside the 245,800 hectares that make up the southern sector of Ecuador’s Parque Nacional Sangay. The NDA contains 96,367 total hectares, of which 82,408 fall inside PN Sangay and 14,250 in the park’s buffer zone (Figure 1).