Here we look at Rainforest Concern, their projects to protect threatened habitats and , and ways that you can get involved. This is part of our series on Living Sustainably.
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If you want some more facts before making any decisions, let’s get into the details:
Rainforest Concern is a UK charity that was setup in 1993.
The aim of the charity is to protect threatened habitats, the biodiversity they contain, and the indigenous people who depend on them for survival.
Since 1993 Rainforest Concern Has:
Helped to protect over 2.2 million hectares of threatened forest.
Worked in Panama, Brazil, Colombia, Belize, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Romania, India, Suriname, Peru.
And worked on over 30 conservation projects with 21 partner organisations.
As part of their conservation strategy, Rainforest Concern support local communities, and deliver environmental education.
Rainforest Concern Projects
Rainforest Concern help to preserve tropical rainforests and other threatened habitats from the rare, biodiversity-rich Andean cloud forests to the temperate rainforests of southern Chile, and from the dry forests of Peru to the last remaining wildernesses of Europe.
Here Are Some of Their Projects:
Ecuador
The Neblina Reserve
Since 2003, Rainforest Concern has purchased areas of forest to create the Neblina Reserve.
The purpose of the project is to keep extending the reserve to create an unbroken forest highway, a biological corridor, from the Mindo Reserve near Quito to the Pangan Reserve in south west Colombia.
Neblina Reserve | Rainforest Concern
Los Cedros
As well as providing emergency funds when urgent conservation action has been required, Rainforest Concern are focusing on a long-term partnership and strategy to help ensure the future sustainability of this special Reserve.
The project is about conserving this extraordinary habitat and the species who depend on it, and supporting the surrounding communities who are so important for long-term protection.
Community Watershed Reserves
Rainforest Concern has been working with DECOIN since 2000 on different conservation initiatives.
DECOIN was founded in January 1995 as a grass-roots environmental organization to protect the cloud forests of the Intag region of northwestern Ecuador.
By enabling local communities to purchase forested land strictly for conservation, this area has a higher chance of long-term survival.
Community-led conservation and eco-tourism projects have helped to prevent a proposed copper mine from going ahead, saving the area from the destruction that typically comes as a result of toxic materials such as arsenic, lead, copper, chromium, and cadmium.