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Thursday, 13 November 2008:

World's first protected area for the Blue-throated Macaw (Bolivia) 

Support through World Land Trust-US (WLT-US) continues to strengthen the protection of critically threatened habitats:

In Bolivia, Conservation organization Asociación Armonía, with the support of American Bird Conservancy and WLT-US, has created the world's first protected area for the Blue-throated Macaw, a critically endangered species with a population estimated at just 300 birds. An 8,785 acre ranch in the grasslands of eastern Bolivia has been purchased to create the Barba Azul Nature Reserve, a breeding site for the Blue-throated Macaws. The reserve, with its grassland habitat, will also protect several species endemic to this area of Bolivia.

In Colombia WLT-US is helping Fundación ProAves to expand two protected areas in the Chocó and Eastern Andes regions as well as a new reserve protecting an important watershed on the eastern foothills of the Andes.

To learn more about these projects and how to support them, visit the WLT-US website:

• Saving the Blue-throated Macaw, Bolivia
• Magdalena rainforest, Colombia

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1 Comments:

This is a truly wonderful, soul-stirring development; and it's just what we need in these gloom-recession-fixated days to boost our flagging spirits.
That SOMEONE is out there restoring and preserving such splendid creatures as these macaws and their attendant habitat, is just, and I mean - just - what I want WLT to be doing and talking about to this mad world.
Well Done to everyone involved and keep doing it!

By  Anonymous, at 8 December 2008 15:50  

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