Stories
Catalytic Conservation: How Rapid Funding Delivers Lasting Protection for Ecuador’s Biodiversity
Conservation opportunities are often time-sensitive. When strategically located lands become available, the ability to act quickly can mean the difference between permanent protection and permanent loss. Through rapid, flexible grants, QRFN helps trusted partners...
Conservación Catalítica: Cómo el Financiamiento Rápido Genera una Protección Duradera para la Biodiversidad del Ecuador
Las oportunidades de conservación suelen ser sensibles al tiempo. Cuando terrenos estratégicamente ubicados salen al mercado, la capacidad de actuar rápidamente puede marcar la diferencia entre su protección permanente o su pérdida definitiva. A través de subvenciones...
Voices from the Field: Preserving Land and Nature Trust (PLANT), Sri Lanka
As part of QRFN's 10-year anniversary celebration, we invited several conservation partners to share updates on the impact of projects supported through the fund. In this video, Preserving Land and Nature Trust (PLANT) reflects on how early QRFN support helped launch...
Voices from the Field: Fundación ProAves, Colombia
As part of the Quick Response Fund for Nature’s 10-year anniversary celebration, we invited several grantee partners to share updates on the impact of projects supported through the fund. In this video, Fundación ProAves reflects on its longstanding partnership with...
Protecting the Lungba Samba Landscape in Nepal
The intact 400,000-acre Lungba Samba Landscape, including Thudam, is a locally designated Biocultural Heritage and Ecotourism Special Conservation Zone. Yet, hydropower companies are aggressively pushing destructive roads through unethical ways, as exposed by Mongabay...
Saving the Mindo Harlequin Toad: A Story of Urgency and Hope
In the cloud forests of Mindo, Ecuador, the relict population of the Mindo Harlequin Toad (Atelopus mindoensis) is on the brink of extinction. After being declared “possibly extinct” and not seen since 1989, a relict population of five individuals was rediscovered in...
Introducing “OnlyEndangereds”: An OnlyFans Account Saving Endangered Species
- To honor National Endangered Species Day (May 16), the Quick Response Fund for Nature launches an OnlyFans account with good-humored animal courting and mating content to raise critical funds to save the habitats of endangered species - OnlyEndangereds features...
Expanding The Los Titíes De San Juan Forest Reserve to Secure Habitat for the Endemic and Critically Endangered Cotton-Top Tamarin in Colombia
Cotton-top tamarins (Oedipomidas oedipus) are small primates, weighing just one pound, native to the tropical forests of northwest Colombia. Their survival is severely threatened by widespread deforestation and habitat fragmentation caused by cattle ranching,...
Protecting a Critical Forest Corridor for the Panganian Preserve in Sulawesi, Indonesia
The Critically Endangered maleo bird (Macrocephalon maleo) is a remarkable megapode that lays a single large egg at a time in the sand at communal nesting areas on beaches or geothermal sites in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Since 2006, the Alliance for Tompotika Conservation...
Expanding the Rio Bigal Biological Reserve
Created in 2008, the Sumac Muyu Foundation is an Ecuadorian NGO dedicated to species and habitat conservation to preserve genetic diversity and natural resources, with the goal of fostering harmony between people and nature. The Foundation's mission is to protect the...