Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco (Jocotoco Conservation Foundation) is an Ecuadorian non-governmental environmental organization.
It was established to purchase and protect land important to the conservation of endangered birds in Ecuador.
[1] Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco established its first reserve, the Tapichalaca Biological Reserve, in 1998 to protect the type locality and main range of the newly discovered Jocotoco antpitta (Grallaria ridgelyi).
[2] The reserve now protects more than 2870 hectares of forest and an associated 380+ species of birds and numerous range-restricted plants, amphibians, mammals, and invertebrates.
[3][4][5] Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco has established eleven reserves protecting 16,000 hectares (40,000 acres): Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco supports an active research program at the reserves.