The European Outdoor Conservation Association is having a vote to decide the resting place for £25,000 of conservation funding. As a Council member of the World Land Trust I’d really like them to get this dosh – and you can help by voting for them (and it won’t cost you a thing!).
If they win, and your vote will help, then the money will go to the WLT partner, Fundación Jocotoco, to protect habitat used by the threatened Spectacled Bear.
The Spectacled Bear’s forest home in the tropical Andes is rapidly disappearing through deforestation, expanding agriculture and un-controlled fires. In Ecuador, there are fewer than 2,000 Spectacled Bears and these animals rely on nature reserves in the mountains. The conservation of this vulnerable species is at the heart of a project at Yanacocha Reserve where Fundación Jocotoco will implement a fire prevention strategy to reduce habitat loss, use camera traps to monitor bears and establish an education programme to highlight the urgent need to save the Spectacled Bear.
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