GIEU 2014 - Ecuador: 2013

Tiputini BioDiversity Station

Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, located in the Amazon basin of eastern Ecuador, protects some of the most undisturbed rainforest habitats in the world, but faces significant challenges to sustaining the protected status of these regions. Our group will spend 21 days working at Tiputini Biodiversity Station, in the heart of the Amazon jungle. In order to cultivate a holistic, non-judgemental, and objective perspective of this complicated situation, a substantial part of this experience will involve mindfulness meditation training to shape students’ inquiry, insight, and self-awareness.