Comments on: Ecotourism and Sustainability http://bigtravelweb.com/travel/2007/11/21/ecotourism-and-sustainability/ Ultimate South America travel tips on hotels, flights, destinations, holiday types, beaches and more. Sat, 25 May 2013 18:33:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Giulia Rolandi Rodriguez http://bigtravelweb.com/travel/2007/11/21/ecotourism-and-sustainability/#comment-1107 Giulia Rolandi Rodriguez Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:47:06 +0000 http://bigtravelweb.com/travel/2007/11/21/ecotourism-and-sustainability/#comment-1107 My name is Giulia Rolandi, born in Buenos Aires Argentina, age 23, my husband is a Chilean man born in Valparaiso, name Manuel Rodriguez, age 33. After travelling through south and central America, he for a more than a decade, and since I turned 18 together with me, who joined into the journey. Many webs were thread during the course of these adventures we lived and everywhere we found a place to stay and rest in between roads and buses was a place of 100% beutifull nature, culture, traditions etc that could be maximized by sharing the in these way of ecotourism holistic centers and this is what we have been doing in every place that our tent was set. Me through my translations skills contacting international tourists in the city nearby and inviting them to share a few days in nature with us, and my husband by having ready the activities with regards to permaculture, horsebackriding, lombriculture, holistic medicinal practices, etcetceetc. After living in this way as a nomadic experience we decided to come back to Chile, his home land and build a definite place with some "funding" that I recieved in that moment. Now it has been 1 year and 7 moons that we are settled in one place of GREAT ecoturistic attraction, at the feet of a mountain called Alto Cantillana, which has recently been declared by the WWF and the UN one of the 9 hot spots in regards in biodiversity in the world. The chilean governement will be receiving funding from these two big international orgs. during the course of the next 4 years. Recently the municipal gov. near us came to invite us to a meeting together with all the eco-turistic related proyects around this high peak called Alto Cantillana, in order to inform us about this funding reality. The truth is that we have not paid much attention to the matter, since much as you also express in your blog on travel trips, we do not believe that funding or money is in any way the most important part of an ecoturistic proyect, although it would do us no harm to receive some money especially now that we are go through the most difficult moment of this initial part of building something so holistic and ecopowerfull as we are doing. The reason that I am writing to you is because I would like to share this proyect that we have been working on for more than a year now. It is TREMENDOUS to realize how much has been done in the place itself where we live, with regards to food at this moment we are 99% self sustainable. And this is all thanks to the hard working spirit that my husband has and the LOVE for nature that we all share. But with regards to Public Relationships, Diplomacy (fundings, paper work) international contact with other organisations or groups of people interested in visiting ecoturism in chile and the web page and all these" modern " aspects are my responsability. And as a young woman I must be honest to say that I have been doing as much as my young heart can do, but there are many aspects of those topics I mentioned above that I am just starting to deal with. This email for example is one of the 10 first steps that I gave this weekend. I joined 5 ecoturism groups in yahoo, 3 in english and 2 in spanish, I have finished writting the text and I am now selecting the best pictures for our web page, I am contacting many graphic designers to know how much a web page with good attractive interactive graphic design can cost, I am translating the web page into english soon, I am writing this letter to you, etc. etc. so in reality what I see is that this is the moment in which all the work that we have done building, planting, cleaning, giving love to this place called "Los Lagartos" Eco LIFE this is the moment in which I must take hold of the ship and take it out into the sea of this world wide web. The reason I did not start any sooner is because this nature sanctuary that we found in the middle of chile at the feet of the Alto Cantillana does not have good phone signal and internet is almost obsolete. We are now two steps away from buying a solar eolic system in order to have energy in our house and this will obviously help us advance considerably with all these web buildings. But in the mean time one of my first good steps is to start writting emails to people like yourself and many other NATURE LOVING BROTHERS AND SISTERS AROUND THE WORLD and letting you all know that you have a home in CHILE you have a place where you can come and make love with nature breathing sun bathing river bathing eating organic powerfull foods etcetceetc and that as soon as loslagartos.org becomes a living reality and begins to surf the web I will also let you know so you can share some beautifull pictures with your loved ones too. If you are interested chris in participating in this adventure with us, by sharing more advice and ideas, by visiting or in any other way it would be a great joy for us. In this moment the only pictures that I have uploaded to the web are a few in my facebook so that I could share with friends and family world wide so I also invite you to see them, it is just a climps of what we are doing since I am reserving the FULL POWER pics for the web page. but my facebook info is Giulia Rolandi-Rodriguez email giulialala@hotmail.com Once again I give thank your advice and attention hoping that we can continue to build stronger webs since there are MANY MANY brothers and sisters in southamerica scattered everywhere dreaming together that this will be our future, ONE AIM ONE GOAL ONE DESTINY GIVE THANKS BLESSINGS to you and your loved ones Giulia and Kalule in LOS LAGARTOS IN ECOTOURISM. ORG THESE ARE THE ONLY THREE IMPORTANT ASOCIATIONS that figure for SOUTH AMERICA South America ONE IN ARGENTINA Asociación Argentina de Ecoturismo y Aventura (AAETAV) El desafío de crear una Asociación representativa que valorice y defienda los intereses del sector, iniciado por un grupo de operadores de diferentes regiones del país, se vió realizado a fines de 2006, luego de casi dos años de arduo trabajo. ONE UN ECUADOR Asociacion Ecuatoriana de Ecoturismo (ASEC) ASEC fue fundada en 1991, por un grupo de empresarios, conservacionistas y catedráticos con una clara visión del desarrollo de la actividad en Ecuador y en el mundo. La misión de ASEC es: Promover la Armonía entre el Turismo, la conservación y la sociedad. Uno de los principales objetivos de ASEC es generar herramientas útiles que apoyen al desarrollo de sus miembros, y al mismo tiempo al desarrollo del turismo sostenible en el Ecuador. AND ONE In BRASIL EcoBrasil EcoBrasil, a Brazilian Ecotourism Association is a not-for-profit non-governmental organisation founded in 1993 by ecotourism professionals. EcoBrasil was the first national NGO to focus on ecotourism. Our vision is to forward ecotourism and sustainable tourism through building knowledge networks and participate in and/or develop projects that helped advance the knowledge about good ecotourism practices and planning in Brazil. So in chile there is no important organization helping us to link into the BIGGER WEB of ORGANIZATIONS WORLD WIDE. Also every page that I have visited in the last couple of hours about ecotourism like planeta.com greenstop.net and many many more I have looked in english to see how much people know about what works are being done here in chile THERE IS ZERO LIKS NONE AT ALL So I wonder why we havent been able to create something that breaks walls and distances and unites us all? Since I know that we are not alone projects are arising and being born all the time continously and we must we need unite and let everyone know about these giants pilars of nature protecting entities in order that the project may trully become sustainable and thus permanent in time LIVE ON CONTINUE TO EXIST because alone we are nothing. We, Los Lagartos, need to let the world know that we exist because it is something really beautyfull really worth CONSERVING TAKING CARE OF, IT IS 500 has. hectares of PURE AUTOCTONOS FLORA AND FAUNA. We need to know where and how join and unite with international organizations, groups nets people individuals families companies related to these subjects ECO TOURISM ECOLOGY ECOVILLAGES ECOWEBS My name is Giulia Rolandi, born in Buenos Aires Argentina, age 23, my husband is a Chilean man born in Valparaiso, name Manuel Rodriguez, age 33. After travelling through south and central America, he for a more than a decade, and since I turned 18 together with me, who joined into the journey. Many webs were thread during the course of these adventures we lived and everywhere we found a place to stay and rest in between roads and buses was a place of 100% beutifull nature, culture, traditions etc that could be maximized by sharing the in these way of ecotourism holistic centers and this is what we have been doing in every place that our tent was set. Me through my translations skills contacting international tourists in the city nearby and inviting them to share a few days in nature with us, and my husband by having ready the activities with regards to permaculture, horsebackriding, lombriculture, holistic medicinal practices, etcetceetc. After living in this way as a nomadic experience we decided to come back to Chile, his home land and build a definite place with some “funding” that I recieved in that moment. Now it has been 1 year and 7 moons that we are settled in one place of GREAT ecoturistic attraction, at the feet of a mountain called Alto Cantillana, which has recently been declared by the WWF and the UN one of the 9 hot spots in regards in biodiversity in the world. The chilean governement will be receiving funding from these two big international orgs. during the course of the next 4 years. Recently the municipal gov. near us came to invite us to a meeting together with all the eco-turistic related proyects around this high peak called Alto Cantillana, in order to inform us about this funding reality.
The truth is that we have not paid much attention to the matter, since much as you also express in your blog on travel trips, we do not believe that funding or money is in any way the most important part of an ecoturistic proyect, although it would do us no harm to receive some money especially now that we are go through the most difficult moment of this initial part of building something so holistic and ecopowerfull as we are doing. The reason that I am writing to you is because I would like to share this proyect that we have been working on for more than a year now. It is TREMENDOUS to realize how much has been done in the place itself where we live, with regards to food at this moment we are 99% self sustainable. And this is all thanks to the hard working spirit that my husband has and the LOVE for nature that we all share. But with regards to Public Relationships, Diplomacy (fundings, paper work) international contact with other organisations or groups of people interested in visiting ecoturism in chile and the web page and all these” modern ” aspects are my responsability. And as a young woman I must be honest to say that I have been doing as much as my young heart can do, but there are many aspects of those topics I mentioned above that I am just starting to deal with. This email for example is one of the 10 first steps that I gave this weekend. I joined 5 ecoturism groups in yahoo, 3 in english and 2 in spanish, I have finished writting the text and I am now selecting the best pictures for our web page, I am contacting many graphic designers to know how much a web page with good attractive interactive graphic design can cost, I am translating the web page into english soon, I am writing this letter to you, etc. etc.
so in reality what I see is that this is the moment in which all the work that we have done building, planting, cleaning, giving love to this place called “Los Lagartos” Eco LIFE this is the moment in which I must take hold of the ship and take it out into the sea of this world wide web. The reason I did not start any sooner is because this nature sanctuary that we found in the middle of chile at the feet of the Alto Cantillana does not have good phone signal and internet is almost obsolete. We are now two steps away from buying a solar eolic system in order to have energy in our house and this will obviously help us advance considerably with all these web buildings. But in the mean time one of my first good steps is to start writting emails to people like yourself and many other NATURE LOVING BROTHERS AND SISTERS AROUND THE WORLD and letting you all know that you have a home in CHILE you have a place where you can come and make love with nature breathing sun bathing river bathing eating organic powerfull foods etcetceetc
and that as soon as loslagartos.org becomes a living reality and begins to surf the web I will also let you know so you can share some beautifull pictures with your loved ones too.
If you are interested chris in participating in this adventure with us, by sharing more advice and ideas, by visiting or in any other way it would be a great joy for us. In this moment the only pictures that I have uploaded to the web are a few in my facebook so that I could share with friends and family world wide so I also invite you to see them, it is just a climps of what we are doing since I am reserving the FULL POWER pics for the web page. but my facebook info is Giulia Rolandi-Rodriguez email giulialala@hotmail.com
Once again I give thank your advice and attention
hoping that we can continue to build stronger webs since there are MANY MANY brothers and sisters in southamerica scattered everywhere dreaming together that this will be our future, ONE AIM ONE GOAL ONE DESTINY
GIVE THANKS
BLESSINGS to you and your loved ones
Giulia and Kalule in LOS LAGARTOS

IN ECOTOURISM. ORG THESE ARE THE ONLY THREE IMPORTANT ASOCIATIONS that figure for SOUTH AMERICA

South America

ONE IN ARGENTINA

Asociación Argentina de Ecoturismo y Aventura (AAETAV)
El desafío de crear una Asociación representativa que valorice y defienda los intereses del sector, iniciado por un grupo de operadores de diferentes regiones del país, se vió realizado a fines de 2006, luego de casi dos años de arduo trabajo.

ONE UN ECUADOR

Asociacion Ecuatoriana de Ecoturismo (ASEC)
ASEC fue fundada en 1991, por un grupo de empresarios, conservacionistas y catedráticos con una clara visión del desarrollo de la actividad en Ecuador y en el mundo. La misión de ASEC es: Promover la Armonía entre el Turismo, la conservación y la sociedad. Uno de los principales objetivos de ASEC es generar herramientas útiles que apoyen al desarrollo de sus miembros, y al mismo tiempo al desarrollo del turismo sostenible en el Ecuador.

AND ONE In BRASIL

EcoBrasil
EcoBrasil, a Brazilian Ecotourism Association is a not-for-profit non-governmental organisation founded in 1993 by ecotourism professionals. EcoBrasil was the first national NGO to focus on ecotourism. Our vision is to forward ecotourism and sustainable tourism through building knowledge networks and participate in and/or develop projects that helped advance the knowledge about good ecotourism practices and planning in Brazil.

So in chile there is no important organization helping us to link into the BIGGER WEB of ORGANIZATIONS WORLD WIDE. Also every page that I have visited in the last couple of hours about ecotourism like planeta.com greenstop.net and many many more I have looked in english to see how much people know about what works are being done here in chile THERE IS ZERO LIKS NONE AT ALL So I wonder why we havent been able to create something that breaks walls and distances and unites us all? Since I know that we are not alone projects are arising and being born all the time continously and we must we need unite and let everyone know about these giants pilars of nature protecting entities in order that the project may trully become sustainable and thus permanent in time LIVE ON CONTINUE TO EXIST because alone we are nothing. We, Los Lagartos, need to let the world know that we exist because it is something really beautyfull really worth CONSERVING TAKING CARE OF, IT IS 500 has. hectares of PURE AUTOCTONOS FLORA AND FAUNA.

We need to know where and how join and unite with international organizations, groups nets people individuals families companies related to these subjects ECO TOURISM ECOLOGY ECOVILLAGES ECOWEBS

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