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Mashpi hosts visits from local schools – most of its guides come from these communities – and many of those locals are going even further by getting directly involved in ecotourism themselves and creating alternative lodges that are more affordable. Gabriel says he and his father plan to build their own lodge one day, on land that his father owns.
Roque Sevilla welcomes the competition. “That would be my dream,” he says. “We built Mashpi Lodge to protect the forest and to inspire…
