by ostyx | Sep 12, 2016
Habitat loss due to development and deforestation has shrunk the Araripe Manakin habitat to only 28 km2. The land purchase is urgent to stop the development from encroaching onto more lands of this endangered species.
by ostyx | Sep 12, 2016
This river preserve is crucial to ensure protection of species and the long-term land management and research in the area.
by ostyx | Sep 12, 2016
The land to be preserved is home to 100 to 200 of these tortoises representing 10 to 20% of the world’s remaining population of this species.
by ostyx | Sep 12, 2015
Coastal Ecuador represents one of the most biologically important yet threatened ecosystems in all of Latin America. Located within the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Biodiversity Hotspot at the nexus of some of the wettest forests in the world (Chocó rainforests) and the...
by ostyx | Sep 12, 2015
To protect the humid subtropical forest habitat that could be cleared for coffee-growing and development. The land is described as being one of the highest biodiversity hotspots in the region.
