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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. You are viewing the archived pages, return to the current press releases here. To see archives from other time periods, use the press release archive in the navigation bar on this page. Press releases on this page:Puma Killed in Patagonia URGENT ACTION NEEDEDPuma 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. |
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