WLT-US Conservation News: November 2012 |
WLT-US is proud to have received a wonderful endorsement from the distinguished biologist and conservationist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard University Professor Emeritus, Edward O. Wilson: "World Land Trust-US has my highest respect and in my opinion deserves support for its reserve-creating projects.... The program is a model of what international conservation efforts should be." Click here to read the full endorsement from Prof. E.O. Wilson |
Success for New Protection in San Rafael, Paraguay!
Thank you! In August, we alerted you to an urgent land purchase needed to expand protection of San Rafael Reserve. Your quick response secured the final funding required to quickly purchase and save 677 acres of rainforest. Since 2002, WLT-US has helped protect over 16,000 acres here - the ancestral territory of the Mbyá People and one of the last great stands of Atlantic Rainforest in Paraguay.
Read more about this milestone in the reserve's history |
Expansion for the Narupa Reserve in Ecuador
With your help, we supported our Ecuadorian partner - Fundación Jocotoco - to purchase and save 387 acres of Andean cloud forest on October 9th to expand Narupa Nature Reserve. Established in 2006 to protect a large block of eastern Andean foothill forest from rapidly advancing deforestation for cattle ranching, this reserve is important for many rare species including the endangered Orange-breasted Falcon.
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