Pacha bay biography channel

I was born deep in the Andean mountains of Ecuador, South America in a small town called Cotacachi where my Mum started an ecology centre in cooperation with the Indigenous Mayor, Auki Tituana.

My name was inspired by 'Pacha Mama'  (Mother Earth) in the traditional Quechua language.  My parents were both involved in environmental activism, social justice and wildlife conservation - meeting during World Mangrove Day, reforesting mangroves in my father's home town of Bahia De Caraquez.

 

My mother was drawn to the Cloud Forest of Intag, a biodiversity hotspot and one of the most threatened areas due to one of the world's biggest copper deposits.

She built a round mud house with a sugar cane thatch roof on a small cloud forest reserve to work with local communities to protect the region from industrial mining, choosing to live simply and lightly on the Earth, with my little brother and I.

No electricity, compost toilet, water from th