Stories

Expanding the Salina Reserve to Protect Blue Iguanas in Grand Cayman
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...

Protecting the Reserva Terrapreta and improving ecological connectivity in Guaviare, Colombia
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...

Protecting Endemic Species in Sri Lankan Lowland Rainforests
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...

Heartland Ranch Nature Preserve Expansion – Jagers Phases 2 & 3
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...

Protecting the forest home of the Critically Endangered cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) in northern Colombia
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...

Protecting the Megadiverse Cloud Forests of Southern Ecuador
Fundación Jocotoco was established in 1998. We are an Ecuadorian NGO whose mission is to protect threatened species and habitats in the country. Although Jocotoco was born out of the realization of how scarce, localized, and consequently threatened many bird species...

Establishing biological corridor in Reserva Kinkajou, Costa Rica
Biological corridors are essential for the protection and/or restoration of natural habitats. In line with this and to minimize the increasing threat by means of human activities such as logging and urbanization, Costa Rica has defined ambitious goals related to the...

Expanding the San Francisco Reserve in Ecuador to protect critical habitats for new and rare amphibian species
With funding support from QRFN, Nature and Culture International (NCI) successfully acquired a piece of 85-hectare property located next to San Francisco Scientific Station, a private reserve located in the buffer zone of the Podocarpus National park, Ecuador in March...

QRFN and Rainforest Trust partner to launch new Preventing Extinction Fund
The Quick Response Fund for Nature (managed by RESOLVE) and Rainforest Trust are proud to announce a new USD 1,000,000 partnership to protect habitat for the world’s most threatened species. The Preventing Extinction Fund will provide grants to local Civil Society...

Expanding the Kivisuo Peatland Complex 2021: A Climate-Stabilization Area in the European North Receives a Crucial Boost
Kivisuo is a major, rather intact Sub-Arctic peatland system located in northern Finland, close to city of Oulu, in the municipality of Muhos and Utajärvi. In 2020 Snowchange was able to secure the core area of Kivisuo peatland into the Landscape Rewilding Programme,...