Video: Reciprocal Water Agreements and Rare
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
Tag Archives: watershed protection
Video: Water, Cattle & Puppet Shows in Ecuador
“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
Video: Social Marketing for Watershed Protection in Colombia
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
Transformations
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
When the streets got their names: Watershed protection kicks off in Zumba, Ecuador
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
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
How bees in Bolivia can protect watersheds and make locals money (video)
A video describing how community agreements to protect water flows from cloud forests can sustainably protect wildlife habitat in Los Negros Bolivia. Rare is replicating this approach with partners in the Andes. Video produced by TVE and used with permission … Continue reading