✽ We Work in the Following Areas
What Do We Do?
Education
We offer a space for relearning where ancient wisdom and crafts recover their significance. At the Nature Reserve Quebrada del Palmar, school members and adults are welcomed to remember what a healthy relationship with nature means; we share the roots of a possible future in harmony with the Earth. .
Conservation
We actively protect +840,000 acres of native forest in the central mountain ranges of the province of San Luis. As guardians of this Andean Condor Sanctuary, we’ve started to work along with Patagonia in the construction of a Biological Station to conduct censuses, to monitor, and to take care of this Andes’ emblematic species. We take care of a high conservation value Chaco Serrano ecosystem.
Community
We understand that mountain valley regeneration and social regeneration are inseparable from each other. We are a mutual support network that brings back encounter culture and human values against the system's haste. Recovering trades, crafts, and shared rhythms, we transform individual wellbeing into a collective force capable of taking care of life and honouring our shared history.
✽ Our Impact
Results in the Area
Our impact extends to every family that participates in our educational experiences, creating a web of life that honours our roots and secures our future.
+840,000
acres of protected native forest
68km
of a protected drainage basin
+5000
visitors enjoyed the Sanctuary
7
active alliances to accomplish our mission
+ 450
girls and boys attended our environmental talk
+36
birds recovered from illegal trafficking were released in the Reserve
✽ Our Goal
The School of Ancient Roots of the Earth
de la Tierra
To expand our educational work, we need to build ecological classrooms specialised in crafts and environmental care to serve as a structure to create a permanent learning centre in the mountains.
Our Current Classroom: the native mountain valley. Our Goal: a knowledge refuge.
Our current classroom: the native forest. Our goal: a refuge for knowledge.
✽ Keep your Finger on the Pulse
Welcome to Our Newsletter.
Receive our chronicles from the Sanctuary and news from the School. Our newsletter is an invitation to inhabit the cycles of the forest, without haste but with the essentials.
About us
We are a civil association committed to carrying out practices that promote a sense of awareness and integration with nature and biodiversity conservation of the native mountain valley of the central mountain ranges of the province of San Luis, Argentina.
raices@arboldelsur.org
+54 266 505 6584 | +54 266 506 0944
San Luis, Argentina