| This is a mining project with one of the largest population rates in the areas of direct influence of the project. The
site is within a hydric network that is part of the most floodable region of the country, and is in a province with the highest percentage of the indigent population of the
Ecuadorian highlands. |
| We needed to build a field environmental team made up of local technicians and achieve a plan to communicate and
disseminate monitoring programs in order to reach cooperation agreements for the construction of instrumental networks. |
| We trained local youth in hydrologic monitoring techniques and how to communicate with the community. This became a team
of monitors who had access to the sites planned for monitoring stations through agreements with landlords and communes.
This team spread the results of controlling and monitoring environmental activities within their families and
communities, thus expanding the number of inhabitants in favor of the mining project. |
| Currently, 80% of the network has been built and periodic hydrologic and biotic monitoring in the area of the project
and zones of direct influence have been launched. |