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		July 16th, 2008 Eight Graduate Rare Pride Program in Latin America “If you don’t love it — you won’t take care of it,” expressed Yazmin Yesenia Benitez Partida, while reflecting on the goal behind her recently completed Pride campaign. Yazmin, working with Mexico... •full article


		July 16th, 2008 Pride Success: Eight Stories from the Field Recently, eight of Rare’s partners graduated from the Pride program, with ceremonies taking place in Mexico City in June. The following are highlights from each campaign — the successes, challenges, and plans for long-... •full article


		April 23rd, 2008 La Ruta Moskitia Announced as Winner of Tourism for Tomorrow Award La Ruta Moskitia, an alliance of five community-owned ecotourism enterprises in Honduras’s Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve, has been awarded the highly coveted World Tourism & Travel Council (WTTC) Tourism for Tomorr... •full article


		April 14th, 2008 Rare China Officially Launches with University Partnership Rare China recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Southwest Forestry University (SWFU) in Kunming, Yunnan, China. Rare and SWFU will now work together to establish Rare’s fourth global training center... •full article


		April 14th, 2008 Recruiting Workshop Held in Kunming, China Rare recently held its first recruiting workshop in China, drawing 34 participants from eight nature reserves and national parks throughout the country. The two-day workshop was co-sponsored by Rare, The Nature Conserv... •full article


		April 2nd, 2008 Rare Leads Social Marketing Workshop in Tanzania Rare is reaching out to 20 local conservationists from five nations, representing WWF, WCS, and the College of African Wildlife Management at a social marketing and recruiting workshop in Tanzania. While in Africa, Rar... •full article


		March 10th, 2008 Rare Alumni Fund Application ENGLISH \| •full article


		December 17th, 2007 Rare Selected for Fast Company 2008 Social Capitalist Award >> Click here to read Fast Company's profile on Rare Rare’s innov... •full article


		November 26th, 2007 2007 Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Award announces La Ruta Moskitia as winner >> Read the article on La Ruta Moskitia in Virgin Holidays magazine Rare, US-ba... •full article


		November 20th, 2007 The Nature Conservancy Magazine Features a Rare Pride Campaign The latest issue of The Nature Conservancy magazine features Luis Sánchez Samudio's Rare Pride campaign in Panama. •full article


		October 12th, 2007 Rare Prepares to Bring Pride to Malaysia Rare is gearing up to launch new initiatives in the Asia Pacific region, and for the first time, spread Rare Pride throughout the beautiful and biodiverse country of Malaysi... •full article


		August 21st, 2007 Pride Campaign Manager Morne Farmer inspires new conservation zone in Namaqualand, South Africa Morne Farmer’s campaign to protect the threatened and endemic Armadillo lizard took place in rural Namaqualand, the world’s only semi-arid biodiversity hotspot that is truly... •full article


		June 29th, 2007 Photojournalist visits Pride site in Janos, Mexico Take a visual tour of the stunning landscapes and inspiring conservation captured by award-winning photojournalist Jason Houston. •full article


		June 19th, 2007 Collaborative Conservation Some Rare Pride campaign managers create conservation impacts in their community that are felt for decades. In Samoa, Toni Tipamaa is one of those conservationist... •full article


		April 17th, 2007 Turtle Talk Sea turtles are an integral part of legend and lore in the U.S. Territory of American Samoa, which comprises seven islands some 4,200 kilometers south of Hawaii. So it seemed only natural that Chris... •full article


		March 23rd, 2007 Observance of World Water Day In the developed world, water is so ubiquitous that the average person rarely thinks about it—unless he or she is thirsty, and then it is simply a matter of turning on a tap or reaching for... •full article


		March 14th, 2007 CTSK Named a Finalist for 2006 Equator Prize The Equator Initiative announced the finalists for its 2006 Equator Prize, honoring 25 extraordinary efforts to harness the equatorial region’s biodiversity to lessen the wi... •full article


		January 26th, 2007 Rare Trains 51 New Nature Guides in Honduras One of Rare’s first conservation tools continues to be one of its most successful. The Nature Guide Training Program (NGTP), which started in Costa Rica in 1994, trained three classes of ecotourism guides in Honduras over t... •full article


		January 18th, 2007 Rare congratulates partners in Laos and Papua New Guinea on new conservation areas What started as a Rare Pride campaign to protect the dwindling forests near the Nam Kading Protected Area, a 939-square-mile treasure in Laos’ Bolikhamxay Province, became a community-led effort to safeguard the region’s wate... •full article


		December 12th, 2006 Rare Gives $10K Grants to 7 Local Conservationists in Honor of E.O. Wilson In October 2006, Rare presented E.O. Wilson, one of conservation’s most prolific leaders, with its first ever Rare Award for Inspiring Conservation. In his honor, Rare also awarded seven local conservationists-- who exempli... •full article


		December 1st, 2006 Use "Foolanthropy" to Make Your Donation to Rare! Thank you to all of our supporters who nominated Rare for the Motley Fool's "Foolanthropy" program! This year, Rare is one of five finalists being presented to the Motley Fool’s investment community as a wise choi... •full article


		November 21st, 2006 Rare Among Nation's Top "Social Capitalists" for Third Consecutive Year Rare is among 43 winners of the 2007 Fast Company / Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards. The award honors nonprofits, or “social entrepreneurs,” across the nation that combine... •full article


		October 26th, 2006 Tom Brokaw and E.O. Wilson Inspire Guests at the 2006 Rare Affair Rare’s global partners gather at 2nd Annual to celebrate the launch of a global grassroots conservation movement On October 23 in New York City, Rare held its second annual benefit event at the Central Park Boath... •full article


		September 19th, 2006 Join Tom Brokaw and E.O. Wilson at the 2006 Rare Affair On October 23, 2006, in New York City, Rare will host its second annual benefit event—the Rare Affair—to honor the efforts of conservation leaders across the globe who are inspiring ... •full article


		September 18th, 2006 Rare Enterprise in Honduras Wins Condé Nast Traveler Award Rare and its local partners in Honduras have worked for several years to build a sustainable ecotourism enterprise. The result is La Ruta Moskitia (www.larutamoskitia.com), which has just been named to Condé Nast Traveler m... •full article


		August 7th, 2006 Rare Launches New Conservation-Training Program in Indonesia In May, Rare launched its third university training program, in Bogor, Indonesia. Rare already has two programs, in the UK and Mexico, to serve English- and Spanish-speaking conservationists running environmental aware... •full article


		August 7th, 2006 Honduran Entrepreneurs Master the Business of Conservation Conservationists are used to hearing good and bad news, often mixed together. Occasionally, however, there is some great news, and Rare is proud to have been a part one of those positive stories: the official launch an... •full article


		June 29th, 2006 Commitment to Tikal Pays Off What started as an entrepreneurial dream in 2001, has become a reality for 19 Guatemalan families living in three communities around Tikal National Park--a UNESCO-designated World Heritage site and protected area that sh... •full article


		February 4th, 2006 Keeping Fast Company! Rare Among *Nation's Top Social Entrepreneurs In The 2006 Fast Company* / Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards** •full article