Rainforest Concern

Colombia

The Pangan-Awa Corridor project

In Spring 2003 Rainforest Concern formed a partnership with Fundacion ProAves , Colombia's largest conservation organisation which has been running since 1998, to extend the Choco-Andean Corridor further north into the heart of the Choco in southwestern Colombia.  Here, situated between the Pangan Reserve and the Awa indigenous Reserve, is an area that encompasses a 13,700 acre tract of forest supporting an extraordinary variety of endemic wildlife. Last year we were successful in purchasing the first 3,700 acres of this forest, and thanks to all our supporters who responded to our appeal in 2006 and helped raise £60,000, we have embarked on the acquisition of 13 further properties that total over 3,500 acres, currently owned by non-native colonists. This will provide critical continuity for our work on the Ecuadorian side of the border - a protected area extending to almost 1 million acres either side of the international frontier.

Please click here for page 1 of our 2007 comprehensive newsletter update (pdf format). 

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