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
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
More than half a billion households around the world cook with inefficient stoves that are unhealthy to cook with and bad for the environment. Countries such as Haiti and Uganda have been devastated by deforestation, partly due to fuelwood consumption for open pit stoves. … Continue reading
This post originated on RarePlanet, our online community inspiring conservation. It was written by Rafael Calderon, Director of Latin America, Rare. Who said that the conservation campaigns were safe, comfortable and free from danger? Think again! In the recent follow-up trip, … Continue reading
Biologists help endangered penguins find true love (Treehugger) “Once a match has been approved, the couple is moved to a more intimate setting downstairs. “Candlelight and romance,” Hume calls it. If the penguins hit it off — and they usually … Continue reading
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
Ocean acidification may threaten food security “Acidification of the seas linked to climate changecould threaten fisheries production and is already causing the fastest shift in ocean chemistry in 65 million years, a U.N. study showed” “Production of shellfish, such as mussels, shrimp … Continue reading
Two Cock of the Rocks, or “Tunkis” as they are locally called hanging out in Peru, work to inspire conservation. The Nature Conservancy’s Rare Pride campaign protected the natural habitat of the Bahuaja Sonene National Park by motivating local residents … Continue reading