Mission:  "Promote the conservation of natural resources and improve the population´s quality of life."

Vision:  "Generate spaces of leadership where skill-building, awareness-raising and youth organisation is promoted with the aim of motivating them to get involved in their community´s problems and actively participate by implementing planned activities."

Ecoclub objectives:

• Contribute to taking care of and conserving the Environment and Natural Resources through youth leadership.

• Encourage a culture that respects and looks after the environment and natural resources among youths organised in Ecoclubs.

• Strengthen the Network of Ecoclubs in the Reserve and its areas of influence by promoting the incorporation and training of new members and groups.

• Solicit the necessary resources to carry out activities.

Ecoclub achievements :

• Active community participation in separating recyclables.

• Community participation in reforestation campaigns that are carried out every year: delivering trees, supervising that they are planted and cared for. More that 20,000 trees have been delivered to communities.

• Campaigns to clean up rivers, lakes, water pools, springs etc.

• As part of our awareness-raising, we have traced and painted more than 200 posters with environmental messages, wich we then strategically hang in environmentally problematic areas.

• We have painted 3 wall murals about the need to recycle waste, 5 on looking after water, 5 murals and 5 awnings on preventing forest fires, which are then hung in strategic locations.

• We have managed to position our youths´ work on national and international levels by participating in woking meetings, forums, workshop, courses etc.

• To celebrate World Environment Day, every year the Ecoclub youths call local people (especially young children) to participate in the Plastic Bottle Marathon. Over the last few years, they have collected around 250,000 plastic bottles through this activity alone.

• We have handed out more than 11,000 informative leaflets and hung up 11,000 posters about recycling in communities where Ecoclubs are working.

• In the recyclabes collection campaigns, we have collected 12, 000 sacks of plastic bottles, glass, tins, etc.

• The Ecoclub youths won the State Youth Prize in the area of the environment.

Essence… The ecoclubs form part of a network of children and youth volunteers within the Sierra Gorda Ecological Group and the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve. They are organised groups that carry out activities in the community in order to improve the population´s quality of life.

What are they searching for? Solutions to environmental problems in different places. The Ecoclub movement promotes the training of community leaders who help develop their local communities. In addition, it encourages participative and sustainable strategies which are constantly measured.

WORK.- To raise public awareness about the need to participate in finding solutions to problems that affect our environment.

TRAIN.- Leaders that are sensitive and responsible, through skill-building.

PARTICIPATE.- With other institutions by elaborating, organising and applying programs that contribute to the population´s and natural resources´ wellbeing.

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LANDA DE MATAMOROS

•SANTA INÉS
•RÍO VERDITO
•EL PEMOCHE
•LANDA CABECERA
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•TRES LAGUNAS

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•PARQUE NACIONAL “EL CHICO”