To protect areas throughout Paraguay, safeguarding varied habitats and species across the country. Guyra Paraguay’s work with local communities is very important to the organisation, as it is committed to creating a sustainable future for both wildlife and local people.
In 1997 a group of individuals resolved to create an organisation, Guyra Paraguay, with the aim of preserving bird species in Paraguay. Concerned about the widespread destruction of Paraguay’s habitats, they chose to focus on birds as important indicators of overall biodiversity.
World Land Trust (WLT) and Guyra Paraguay signed a partnership agreement after a visit by Alberto Yanosky to the WLT office in 2004, meeting John Burton, then both Executive Directors of each institution. Later, in 2005, the purchase of the first lands began in the Chaco-Pantanal.
To date, WLT has financed the purchase of land in the Chaco-Pantanal and Chaco Seco adding more than 20,000 hectares for conservation in perpetuity, also in 2010 WLT supported the design and implementation of The Paraguay Forest Conservation Project – Reduction of GHG
Guyra Paraguay now helps to protect and manage directly and indirectly over two and half million acres of threatened habitats throughout Paraguay. WLT supports their efforts through the Keepers of the Wild appeal, putting more reserve rangers in the field to help safeguard this vast area.
Campo Iris Project
The Paraguay Forest Conservation Project
Please see our Paraguay page.
