Written by Carmen Noriega, Communications Coordinator for CI-Peru. CI’s conservation activities in Peru have really been taking off lately. Last week we announced the verification of our first forest carbon offset project in the Alto Mayo Protected Forest. Today, CI-Peru’s Carmen … Continue reading
In 2012, Rare and it’s partners successfully completed 11 wateshed protection programs in the Andes. Rare is now repeating what worked in 13 new sites including expansion into Mexico. Continue reading
“The most important thing is interacting with people,” says Marco. “That is the fundamental element that Rare has taught me in order to achieve a change in behavior.” Continue reading
During the annual Raymillacta festival in Peru thousands of people from dozens of surrounding villages come to the city of Chachapoyas in their native dress. Rare Conservation Fellow Maritza Tovar stole the show with a lively interpretation of the importance of riverbank habitat.Tovar’s campaign aims to reduce deforestation and forest fires in the Tilancancha watershed. Continue reading
Basketball star and conservationist Yao Ming visited the wetlands of Dongzhaigang with Rare CEO Brett Jenks and Rare Chair Emerita Wendy Paulson to see preservation efforts firsthand. Continue reading
Rare Conservation Fellow Cathy Demesa writes about her experience being interviewed by The New York Times. Continue reading
Rare Conservation Fellow Heidy Valle is protecting Andean cloud forest, safeguarding her community’s water supply and saving the endangered yellow-eared parrot. Continue reading
Impact on personal, professional and planetary levels Eight master’s degrees, two pregnancies, one marriage, two home purchases, one birth. Luis quit smoking. Jaime gained eight kilograms. Marco lost just as many. The 11 Rare Conservation Fellows who just completed their … Continue reading
César Laura partners with Rare for the second time Seven years ago, 75 percent of the people in Oxapampa, Peru did not know anything about their neighboring national park. Rare Conservation Fellow César Laura partnered with Rare to change that … Continue reading
It has now become local lore in Dashanbao: a brave young woman fights off death as she struggles to rescue a black-necked crane chick from icy waters. Rare Conservation Fellow Qing Baoping grabbed the microphone and surprised everyone with a … Continue reading