Jatun Sacha is best known as the name of a biological station established in the Ecuadorian Amazon in 1985, the Jatun Sacha Biologial Station. The management of this station and its associated nature reserve is undertaken by Ecuador's Jatun Sacha Foundation

Jatun Sacha Foundation

The Jatun Sacha Foundation is a private Ecuadorian Non profit NGO founded in 1985.The purpose of this organisation is outlined on its website as:...

, which since its birth in the 1980s has grown to be Ecuador's largest national level conservation organization with projects distributed throughout mainland Ecuador

Ecuador

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 as well as on the Galápagos Islands

Galápagos Islands

The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part.The Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a...

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In the 21st century the name Jatun Sacha was also adopted by the Bolivian government for their Proyecto Jatun S'acha , a forest conservation initiative in collaboration with FAO

Fão

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, USAID, and the United Nations

United Nations

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In 2007, a U.S. affiliate of Ecuador's Jatun Sacha Foundation

Jatun Sacha Foundation

The Jatun Sacha Foundation is a private Ecuadorian Non profit NGO founded in 1985.The purpose of this organisation is outlined on its website as:...

legally titled 'Jatun Sacha USA' adopted the English translation "Great Wilderness" http://www.greatwilderness.org as their public name in the United States.

External links

• Jatun Sacha Foundation, Ecuador, Official website for Ecuador's Jatun Sacha Foundation (in English and Spanish)
• Proyecto Jatun S'acha, Official website for Proyecto Jatun S'acha, a forest conservation initiative of the Bolivian government (in Spanish)
• Great Wilderness, Official website for Great Wilderness, a California-based international non-profit acting as Jatun Sacha Ecuador's US affiliate