Brothers Andrei and Pablo Gordienko, unnerved by the above devastation, purchased 1000 acres of denuded rainforest in 1990.  Their goals included re-establishing the flightways of the Scarlet Macaw by restoring  a year round food source.

Thirty years later,  hundreds of thousands of mature trees and shrubs are thriving in a multilayered, biodiverse environment.  This is what we now know as Santuario Macao;  home to more than 350 species of birds, 25 species of mammals and countless other organisms.

Under the  canopy of this  regenerated forest amongst the wildlife, grows 25 acres of cacao in a successful Agroforestry system.  The  cacao becomes Macaw Kakau chocolate and is an endowment to CBR. 

Pumas (apex predators)  have begun to revisit this land and re-establish their territory.  Macaws have returned to feed.  This is biodiversity restoration.

Presently, the sanctuary is made up of a private reserve, an ecolodge, a center for eco-tourism, agroforestry production, a chocolate factory, and is home for The Center for Biological Diversity Restoration.