Grupo Ecológico has also helped put in place a variety of innovative funding mechanisms empowering a network of highly resourceful, impoverished small farmers and ranchers to assume the roles of preservationists and regenerators of their own land in one of the most biodiverse regions of the world. Pati tells their story here:

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