The Choco-Andean Rainforest Corridor Project is buying back threatened
rainforest in Ecuador and will create a vital link between Andean
cloud forests and the lowland forests of the Awa Ethnic Reserve. In
doing so it will ensure continuity of forest between the three largest
reserves in western Ecuador.
These forests are in grave danger from the constant threat of logging,
mining and farming. As a habitat, they are home to an incredible range
of animals including jaguars, spectacled bears and many rare birds,
but the relentless pace and scale of destruction is edging these animals
towards extinction.
Rainforest Rescue has recently joined a partnership with Rainforest
Concern (UK) and the Rainforest Information Centre (Australia) to
assist with the project.
Since 1994 the project has made dramatic progress in buying land to
build the corridor and in providing alternative income for the local
communities - helping them to move out of destructive subsistence
slash and burn farming and into sustainable alternatives. Biological
corridors are essential to maintain migration of animal and plant
species from one area to another and to ensure healthy population
levels.
Rainforest Concern and partners have recently completed the final
link of almost 30,000 acres for the northern phase of the corridor.
This is a significant achievement in international conservation and
the focus is now on the southern phase of the corridor. This phase
covers the widest range of habitats with altitudes stretching from
1,000m to 3,500m.
Please help us to save some of the earths most important and threatened
rainforest by making a tax-deductible donation. Every $200 we raise
will buy and preserve a whole hectare.
Click here to Join us now and sponsor hectares of threatened rainforest
in one of the world's most important ecological areas. You will be
making a real difference.
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