A'i Cofán Indigenous Community Engagement when Implementing Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring as a Bioindicator Tool of Water Quality in the Ecuadorian Amazonia

Federico Sinche, Manuel Cabrera, Carlos Huatatoca, Mario Cusme, Edison Segura, Roly Ramirez, Jessica Cayambe, Jennifer Alvarez, Augusto Vargas

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7-10
Number of pages4
JournalLimnology and Oceanography Bulletin
Volume32
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2023
Externally publishedYes

Funding

We give sincere thanks to the ASLO community and the Global Outreach Initiative (GOI) (2021–2022) for funding support to develop and implement our outreach project in the Ecuadorian Amazonia. We also thank the leaders and all members of the A'i Cofán community for their collaboration and openness to participate in our 2021–2022 GOI project, and the Ministry of the Environment of Ecuador “Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica de la República del Ecuador (MAATE)” and its committed forest rangers for the logistical planning, transportation, and assistance during the establishment of the monitoring stations.

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Ministerio del Ambiente
Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica

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