Transformations

Fellows practice yoga three times a week at ITESCO University in Guadalajara.

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

Bear meets rare frog

Bromelio the bear introduces Anita the frog.

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

A visit to the endangered Yellow-eared Parrots of the Cucuana Watershed, Colombia

“I used to work on my land growing crops and tending my cattle, but then about 13 years ago, I entered a new world, that of conservation, of species, of nature. And I feel content, because I feel I am … Continue reading

Protecting cloud forests and endangered species in the Andes with reciprocal watershed agreements (Q&A)

In late 2009, the Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) approached Rare to launch a series of campaigns in the Andes protecting the forest habitats of highly endangered species. In our search for communities that had curbed deforestation, Rare identified Fundación … Continue reading

Photo of the Day: 2 campaigns, unable to cross border, working on same goal

This photo has two campaign managers — Luis Lopez from Ecuador and Helder Aguirre from Peru — working on the same goal (protecting watersheds in the Andes), in different countries, unable to cross each other’s border. Their campaigns are each … Continue reading