Donor Testimonial

"It is with great pleasure that my wife and I have chosen to support the Campaign for 5000.  A few years ago, a stay at the Cofan community of Zabalo convinced us that contributing financially to the Cofan Survival Fund would one of the most worthwhile ways of targeting our charitable donations.  My academic training was in the fields of zoology and ecology.  My wife has always worked in fields devoted to improving the well-being of others.  For both of us, support of the Fundación Sobrevivencia Cofán programs has been enormously satisfying.  In them, we have found a great match between their goals and our backgrounds and interests.  The Campaign for 5000 provides needed resources for work that is vitally important not only to the Cofáns, but also to Ecuador, and the global community.  We encourage the support of this program."

-Ted & Brigitte Pidduck, Richmond, VA

About the Campaign for 5000

The Cofan Survival Fund employs a highly-trained, uniformed, and very effective team of 60+ Cofan Rangers who patrol more than 1 million acres of extremely biodiverse mountains and rain forests of the Cofan Ancestral Territories in Northern Ecuador.

Cofan Rangers have successfully protected rain forest plants and animals against deforestation, poaching, illegal mining and other activities that threaten the ecological integrity of these vital ecosystems.

The Cofan Survival Fund developed this unique conservation program over the past 20 years through generous scientific and financial support from international conservation organizations, philanthropic foundations and individual donors including The Nature Conservancy, The Wildlife Conservation Society, The Blue Moon Foundation, and USAID to name a few.  To learn more about our past and present working partners, please click here.

Now that the Cofan Ranger Program is firmly established and producing on-the-ground results to successfully protect their ancestral territories, our main focus is to create an ongoing funding source that will sustain the valuable work that we have begun.  That is why we've initiated the "Campaign for 5000."

"The goal of the Campaign for 5000 is to bring together 5,000 people to fund the Cofan Ranger Program and protect some of the most biodiverse rain forests in the world."

Your $10/month will make a real difference in the survival of a culture, the protection of rare and yet undiscovered species, and the preservation of some of the highest biodiversity forests in the world.

By  preventing unchecked deforestation and forest degradation, each $10/month donation will also ensure that 12 metric tons of CO2 per year that would otherwise be released to the atmosphere and contribute to global warming will stay in the forests, that the trees will continue to protect the watersheds and provide habitat for the millions of species of plants and animals that call the Cofan Territory their home.  For more information on Cofan voluntary carbon credits, visit on our Carbon in the Cofan Territories page.

The average US citizen generates 20 metric tons of CO2 per year. Your individual contribution of $10/month will offset more than half of your annual carbon emissions generated your electricity use, your transportation, and the energy used in producing your food and manufacturing your possessions.

Offset your carbon emissions, help a culture survive and thrive, save megadiverse tropical rainforests and feel good every time you see your tax deductible $10 donation on your bank statement.

Take a moment right now to Become One of the 5000 that will preserve, conserve, and protect the Cofan Territories of Northern Ecuador.

We each count. It's up to us to make a difference.

The Cofan Survival Fund is a U.S. 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, non-profit organization -- Your charitable donations are tax deductible.