The Yoro Biological Corridor and website is managed by the engineers, conservation scientists, and coffee growers active in developing The Yoro Model; And was created to inform those interested, collect support, and urge people in power to take the necessary actions to help get these programs off-the-ground and addressing climate change.

Core Partners

Mesoamerican Development Institute
Merchants of Green Coffee
Birding Coffee
COMISUYL
Independent Farmers
National Institute for Forest Conservation and Development, Protected Areas and Wildlife (ICF)
Each Municipal Government within the Corridor

Research

Mesoamerican Development Institute
University of Massachusetts Amherst
US Forest Service
National Science Foundation
Honduras Autonomous University

The Yoro Model is a model of producing coffee designed to restore and conserve forest on private lands (coffee farms) that is currently being demonstrated and refined in Yoro, Honduras.

The Yoro Model

The first forest corridor in to reach the official submission process for legal protection status, making use of a unique forest protection law.

The Forest Corridor

Plants, animals and people are all intrinsic to biodiversity protection in the Corridor, which provides critical habitat for forest-dwelling species.

The Biodiversity

The Yoro Biological Corridor (YBC) enables local communities work together and improve living conditions via stable green employment; With a special emphasis on women, youth training & forest conservation.

The Community

The Yoro Biological Corridor and website is managed by the engineers, conservation scientists, and coffee growers active in developing The Yoro Model.

The Team

Videos are supplied by various stakeholders and illustrate the model and its on-the-ground activities..

Videos

Key scientific studies and presentations pertaining to the Yoro Biological Corridor and associated Yoro Model activities.