The Parana wetlands represent the area’s local natural, historical and cultural heritage. It is part of the most significant wetland system in Argentina, the Paraná Delta River (which includes three Argentine provinces, Entre Rios, Buenos Aires and Santa Fe). It is home to the biogeographical ecoregions of the “Espinal” (endangered at the national level) and the Paranaense Rainforest.

Fundación CAUCE: Cultura Ambiental, Causa Ecologista (hereafter Fundación CAUCE) works on the restoration, water management and community-based ecotourism of the wetlands. It was was founded in 2018 with the main objective of moving towards sustainable societies where one can exercise, with full conscience, an ethic of care that considers human rights and the rights of nature. It also works with a gender perspective in arts, culture and education. Fundación CAUCE  works on restoring the wetlands, water management, and community-based ecotourism. 

For this project, Fundacion Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN) provides technical expertise and guidance, attends field visits/meetings, collaborates with communications, and attends to financial tasks. In coordination with FARN, Fundación CAUCE works with a group of women from the organization “Cuidadores de la Casa Común Entre Ríos.”

Cuidadores de la Casa Común Entre Rios is part of a national movement of social and community organisations from different parts of the country responding to Pope Francis’s Encyclical Letter “Laudato Si”: Caring for the Common Home. It consists of more than 30 young and adult people from vulnerable neighbourhoods in the west of Paraná City. Their purpose is to work in that territory, focusing on environmental protection.