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https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/citizen-run-conservation-booms-in-south-america-despite-state-neglect/>
"When Teresa Chang first saw the plot of land that now makes up the Amotape Dry
Forest Private Conservation Area in the Tumbes municipality of northern Peru,
she was horrified. It was 1997 and she was looking for a place near the sea to
retire with her husband. But the barren 123-hectare (300-acre) lot that they’d
purchased couldn’t have been further from what she’d envisioned. All the trees
had long been felled. An intense fishy smell from larvae and prawn fishing on
the coast filled the air. The only birds in sight were vultures, and the soil
was upturned from informal quarrying for construction.
After a decade of sowing and tending to the land, they noticed a flock of
pheasant-looking birds they’d never seen before and understood their project
was no longer just a retirement home. “We started to see all these different
birds and realized we had created an ecosystem,” Chang, now 75, told Mongabay
in a phone interview. In 2009, the family registered the land as a privately
protected area, a category that was only defined in Peruvian law a few years
prior.
Today, the conservation area partners with the Cornell Laboratory for
Ornithology to monitor the bird life there. It’s home to 79 species of birds,
of which 16 are found only in this region, including the Peruvian booby (Sula
variegata) and the Peruvian pelican (
Pelecanus thagus)."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
