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
A week or so after returning from visiting our China campaign managers in Kunming, I was back in the air again, this time heading west to Ecuador, a country of geological and geographic contrasts. From the offshore islands of the Galapagos … Continue reading
Note: This blog post originated on RarePlanet, our online community inspiring conservation. It was written by Pride Program Manager Marissa Anzueto and translated from Spanish by Natalia Santoyo. With the signing of a commitment letter by the local autonomous government … Continue reading
Note: This blog post originated on RarePlanet, our online community inspiring conservation. It was written by Conservation Fellow Marco Bustamante and translated from Spanish. The “Together for Yanuncay” campaign, which aims to protect the Yanuncay Watershed, kicked off on February … Continue reading
Note: This blog post originated on RarePlanet, our online community inspiring conservation. It was written by Pride Program Manager Marissa Anzueto and translated from Spanish by Natalia Santoyo. The campaign for protection of the San Juan Watershed in Colombia kicked … Continue reading
If the above embedded video does not display, click here to view it. The video can be viewed at full screen and in HD. Rare has launched 11 campaigns in the Andes to help protect vital watersheds as well as safeguard … Continue reading
On January 2, 2011, while most people around the world slept off the last champagne bubbles, Luis López left his home at 6 am to get to work. In the heart of the Andes, near the Peruvian border, López spent … 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
Above is a great graphic from NRDC that shows how the ongoing costs of the Senate’s inability to act on climate change. You can find the embed code here. Drought linked to climate change has reversed a decades-long trend of … Continue reading