Global Compass Conservation protects ecosystems and cultural knowledge as one living inheritance — from soil, water, and species to the communities who carry memory, practice, and care.
They are the same inheritance, seen from two angles. Choose the door that calls you — both lead to the same work.
Watersheds, soil, habitat, species, agroecology, and ecological restoration — the biophysical scaffolding that holds the corridor together.
Enter Nature →Ancestral knowledge, model farmers, food systems, women, youth, rituals, and cultural continuity — the human practices that know how to care.
Enter Culture →At the meeting point of Pacific coastline, tropical dry forest, seasonal water systems, and community land practices, GCCG is building a living model for regeneration from soil to sea.
Toggle the lens above to see the same work from the other side.
Headwaters, tributaries, riparian zones, hydrological cycles.
Living soil, root networks, carbon, erosion control, microbial life.
Dry forest cover, coastal margins, restoration corridors.
Birds, pollinators, reptiles, plants — indicator and keystone.
Polyculture, native crops, regenerative production, food forests.
Pyrocephalus rubinus
Insectivore · indicator of restored riparian cover
Returning pairs signal that riparian insect populations have recovered enough to support active hunting territories.
Known locally as the 'fire bird' for its color; its return is celebrated by community planting crews.
Sula nebouxii
Apex marine forager — indicator of pelagic fish stock health
Active feeding within 100m of shore indicates the local pelagic fishery is still productive.
Iconic on this coast — fishermen use booby diving behavior as a real-time school-of-fish signal.
Amazilia amazilia
Primary pollinator of tubular dry-forest flowers
Visit frequency tracks flowering density — a proxy for restoration vigor on a given plot.
Hummingbirds are spirit messengers in many local cosmologies — their return is read as a good sign.
Forpus coelestis
Seed disperser
Flock size tracks fruiting-tree availability across the season.
Documentation in progress.
From the bluff above the bay, the inshore artisanal fleet is fully deployed by 07:30 — a working seascape, not a postcard. The same waters host blue-footed booby foraging dives and seasonal humpback transit.
Adult booby visible on the upper roofline; a juvenile (this year's cohort, by plumage) is hung in a fragment of monofilament gillnet draped across the pier framework. Bird is alive, alert, but immobilized.
Adult whiptail (Ameiva sp.) recorded foraging on the leaf-litter floor of a year-2 restoration parcel. Coloration consistent with breeding-condition males: turquoise flank spotting, slate-blue throat, olive dorsum.
A rare frontline zone where the Humboldt current, Pacific tropical dry forest, and human settlement converge.
Restoring a dry forest that the rest of the coast forgot.
Working with the families who already live this coast.
Cloud forest headwaters across the border in Ecuador — the upstream half of the Peru–Ecuador corridor.
Protecting the source where the corridor's water begins.
Land-tenure dialogue with the upstream communities.
Polyculture and milpa systems led by women across the dry forest corridor.
Soil, polyculture, and 31 native crop varieties under stewardship.
Forty-eight women holding the practical knowledge of this coast.
Field-based training for the next generation of dry forest stewards.
Nine youth-led restoration plots under measurable stewardship.
Mentorship from elders and resident scientists, side by side.
Every donation pathway maps to a tracked outcome — a tributary, a habitat, a farmer, a youth cohort. Choose what you want to grow.
The base hosts a small number of collaborators each season. Tell us how you want to participate — we'll meet you at the door that fits.