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What's New March 2010

Cotton-Top Tamarin

Employing Green Fashion to Save Threatened Primates

Colombia's Fundacion Proyecto Titi is raising funds to conserve cotton-top tamarins, one of the world’s most threatened primates, by selling eco-mochilas, a version of the traditional Colombian woven shoulder bag made from recycled plastic. Made by local artisans and sold online, profits from the bags are providing local communities with alternative sources of income to deforestation, the main threat to tamarin populations.


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Pyramid - Photo by Labeeb Abboud/Rainforest Alliance

Community tourism is a means to promote conservation and development, but it can also help to alleviate poverty. The Rainforest Alliance is providing support, resources, and training for small- and medium-sized businesses in Mexico and Guatemala to help them take advantage of this unique opportunity.

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Innovative Eco-Initiative

Asociación para el Desarrollo Sostenible San José Rural (ADESSARU) is transforming the management of the Nacientes Palmichal watershed, located in a rural area in the San José province of Costa Rica, into a model of sustainable local development that combines the natural resource protection with tourism.

Stellar Project Update: Raptor Migration Monitoring in the Western United States and Gulf Coast Region

Concluded & Acclaimed: Conservation Dialogues in Northern Mesoamerica II

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Monitoring & Evaluation

Long-Billed Curlew - Photo by Mike Baird

Researchers with the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and Pronatura Noreste share their methodology for determining the fidelity and dependence of long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) populations on their overwintering habitat in the grasslands of Mexico’s semi-desert regions.

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Colombia's Critically Endangered Cotton-Top Tamarins Inspire Savage Devotion | Empowering Indigenous Communities in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon | New and Notable on www.eco-index.org: Ecotourism Development in the Mahogany Wetlands Municipal Ecological Park, Bluefields-Rama, RAAS, Nicaragua

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Birds - Photo by Enrique Bucher

Enrique Bucher, Director of the Center for Applied Zoology of the National University of Córdoba in Argentina, discusses his work to design and manage artificial wetlands to provide suitable habitat for resident and migratory birds.

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The Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds supports local conservation organizations in their efforts to conserve Caribbean birds and their habitats. We talked with Lisa Sorenson, President of the SCSCB, about the Society’s goals, successes, and its plans to continue advancing conservation in the Caribbean.

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Frog - Photo by Cory Thomas

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"Adaptation to Climate Change Toolkit -- Options for Marine Turtles" features in-depth information about climate change projections in the wider Caribbean; guidelines for monitoring sand and incubation temperatures on sea turtle nesting beaches; a case study on the effects of rising sea levels at an important sea turtle nesting beach in Costa Rica; and recommended adaptation measures for coastal areas.

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Terra Viva Grants is a free, searchable, online directory of grant makers that fund biodiversity conservation and natural resource management projects in developing regions throughout the world.

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