Stories
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Conservation Northwest assists Colville Confederated Tribes to acquire 9,243 acres critical for Cascades-to-Rockies habitat connectivity. January 21, 2022
In October 2021, Conservation Northwest—a Seattle-based NGO—closed on the purchase of the 9,243 acre Figelinski Ranch in the Tunk Valley of Okanogan County in Washington State, USA. Following the completion of the purchase, the deed was transferred directly to the Colville Confederated Tribes, whose reservation lies just south of the property.
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Quick Response Fund for Nature helped to add 6,600 acres to Heartland Ranch May 13, 2021
Heartland Ranch now covers nearly 25,000 acres, or nearly 40 square miles, with the preserve strictly protected to safeguard the native flora and fauna of the shortgrass prairie.
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Environmental Defenders of Ngetha Media Association for Peace acquire land to conserve the critically endangered African pangolins October 30, 2020
The Environmental Defenders of Ngetha Media Association for Peace have been able to acquire 54 acres of land near Murchison Falls National Park, in a globally significant area of Uganda.
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Sumac Muyu Foundation expands Río Bigal Reserve and conserves more territory for jaguars in Ecuador September 30, 2020
Sumac Muyu Foundation has managed the Bigal River Biological Reserve since 2008 (soon reaching 800 hectares) within the Payamino-Bigal-Sumaco Corridor, Ecuador. The corridor is located on the eastern slope of the Sumaco Volcano, within the “East Andean Slope of Ecuador-Peru” Endemic Bird Area (EBA), as well as the “Northwest Andean Forest” Global 200 Ecoregion.
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A Boreal Ecological Corridor Secured With Critical Support From QRFN: Carbon Sinks and Biodiversity Protected September 17, 2020
In summer 2020 the Landscape Rewilding Programme of Snowchange, based in Finland, entered into talks to secure a boreal (northern) Oravasuo-Siltaneva-Rasinneva peatland ecological corridor in Ähtäri. It totals over 670 hectares (over 1650 acres) and positively influences major boreal habitats through interconnection.
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Protecting forest of life in a time of crisis July 30, 2020
The Philippines is a global biodiversity hotspot, yet only 4% of native habitat remains. With two grants over the past 18 months, the Higa-onon tribe on the island of Mindanao has been able to protect 120 hectares of primary forest that is both exceptional and sacred.