:: About us ::

Santa Lucía is a community-based organisation formed by local campesino families who manage their own resources. We have three basic aims:

• to conserve and protect the cloud forest belonging to member families.
• to develop sustainable sources of income for the members of Santa Lucía.
• to benefit directly or indirectly the residents in neighboring areas.

 

We see conserving our forest and providing sustainable income for local people as inextricably linked.

We are achieving our aims through Ecotourism, Reforestation, Conservation Monitoring, Community Projects and Volunteering.

We believe that Santa Lucia offers a model of what a community owned and community run organization can achieve in terms of responsible ecotourism, conservation and development. Please see our Responsible Ecotourism Policy. For more information about Santa Lucia's visit Santa Lucia Past and Present.

Santa Lucia would like to thank the very many individuals and organisations who have supported and continue to support us in such a variety of ways.

In particular we would like to thank Rainforest Concern UK and Quest Overseas.

We would also like to thank Martha Henson for the creation of this website. See Website Credits.