Conservation projects news from the World Land Trust, an international wildlife conservation charity working to protect threatened wildlife habitats worldwide.
A recent application to grant-giving body, IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands (IUCN NL), has been successful, providing a much needed boost to the World Land Trust's fundraising efforts to protect the rapidly disappearing habitat of the Bornean Orang-utan.
The IUCN NL's 'Small Grants for the Purchase of Nature Programme', funded by the Dutch Postcode Lottery, has been running for many years now and has previously supported a number of WLT's other projects in India, Brazil and Paraguay, in efforts to purchase and protect threatened habitats and their endangered wildlife. Last week, IUCN NL notified WLT that it would be supporting this latest project to protect wild Orang-utans in Borneo, by giving a grant of 85,000 Euros (£67,000), a significant contribution to the £343,000 target that WLT needs to achieve.
It is hoped that with this funding injection, as well as generous donations from individual supporters (totalling a staggering £20,000 raised in just one month), that a down-payment can be made to secure the property, which would give WLT an additional 6 months to raise the balance of project funding.
Your support is still needed! Please remember that every contribution, no matter how small, will make a real difference and take us one step further to to make this essential project a reality.
For further information about this project, please see: http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/malaysia.htm
How to support the Orang-utan Appeal
- Donate online at Justgiving
- Phone the WLT office at +44 (0) 1986 874 422
- Send a cheque made payable to "WLT Orang-utan Appeal" to World Land Trust, Blyth House, Bridge Street, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 8AB, UK
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Top: The four new species of frogs discovered in the EcoMinga reserves. Above: A (dead) harlequin frog. Photos by Juan Pablo Reyes (Click on the images to see larger versions.)Herpetologists from the Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales (Ecuadorian Museum of Natural Sciences) have been surveying EcoMinga's reserves and have discovered four apparently new species of frogs in and around the reserves. They estimate that the total number of frog species in the Cerro Candelaria Reserve (EcoMinga's largest reserve, bought with major individual and corporate donations to the World Land Trust) is around forty. This is good news in a world where most news about frogs is very depressing.
The herpetologists were especially thrilled to find a surviving population of a harlequin frog (Atelopus palmatus) that was thought to be extinct; this was found near EcoMinga's Rio Zuñac reserve. Their investigations of EcoMinga's reserves were funded by WLT trustee Nigel Simpson.
Andrew Smiley from WLT visited the Candelaria Reserve in May to investigate the possibility of involving the reserve's neighbours in organic shade-grown coffee, which can be grown under a canopy of native trees. If agreement can be reached the coffee would be sold directly to Puro Coffee for their premium organic "bird-friendly" brands. This would improve the lives of local farmers and result in reforestation of current pasturelands.
Meanwhile, reforestation continues on former pastures along the edge of the Cerro Candelaria reserve. EcoMinga personnel are rapidly learning how to reconstruct a natural forest of high diversity in these former pastures. Over one thousand trees have now been planted.
Report from Lou Jost, Fundación EcoMinga
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