by ostyx | Aug 30, 2023 | Story
Fundación Jocotoco was established in 1998. We are an Ecuadorian NGO whose mission is to protect threatened species and habitats in the country. Jocotoco was born out of the realization of how scarce, localized, and consequently threatened many bird species in Ecuador...
by ostyx | Feb 13, 2023 | Story
The loss of wildlife in Grand Cayman is scarcely imaginable. When Christopher Columbus arrived on the islands in 1503, the seas were said to ripple with turtles, hence the initial naming of the islands as Las Tortugas. The islands later became known as Caymanes, after...
by ostyx | Feb 13, 2023 | Story
The Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development (FCDS) is committed to promoting peacebuilding through environmental zoning of the territory, promoting environmental protection and sustainable development, especially in the Colombian Amazon, with an...
by ostyx | Feb 13, 2023 | Story
In 2020, against a backdrop of massive land grabs and forest destruction, Sri Lanka’s largest and most active conservation entity, the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS), which is the third oldest conservation entity in the world, took a bold visionary...
by ostyx | Feb 13, 2023 | Story
The mission of the Southern Plains Land Trust (SPLT) is to create and protect a network of shortgrass prairie preserves that ensure a future for all native animals and plants. Through this land acquisition project, SPLT expanded our Heartland Ranch Nature Preserve in...
by ostyx | Aug 9, 2022 | Story
Cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) are one-pound monkeys, only found in the tropical forests of northwest Colombia, in South America; nowhere else in the world you will see these charismatic little primates in the wild. However, their survival is threatened by...
