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World Land Trust Press ReleasesPress releases from the World Land Trust, an international conservation organisation working to preserve the world's most biologically important and threatened lands. Read the most current WLT press releases here Puma Killed in Patagonia URGENT ACTION NEEDEDPress Release dated: Friday, October 13, 2000The World Land Trust is urgently raising funds to create a 20,000 acre reserve in the coastal steppe of Patagonia. The reserve is being established to protect a wide range of the region's threatened wildlife. Many of the species present, although legally protected, are still hunted illegally. The land being purchased is home to over 300 guanaco and also two pumas. Because the area is predominately owned by sheep ranchers, the pumas are heavily persecuted, and the WLT has just heard that a puma was shot on, or close to, the reserve area. And guanaco are regularly hunted simply to provide meat to feed sheepdogs. We need to act NOW. We must raise the funds to buy the ranch, and put the urgently needed protection in place. We need to provide a safe haven for the pumas. Share this press release with your friends: 0 Comments:Response PolicyThe WLT reserves the right to delete any comments that are inaccurate, seriously illiterate, libellous, malicious, obscene or likely to cause offence on the grounds of decency. However, we will not normally delete responses that are simply critical or expressing and alternative opinion. Links to this press release: |
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