Fundación ProAves – por la conservación en el país de las aves

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We protect critical habitats throughout the country

The ProAves Foundation has established, within the framework of the Conservation strategy, 28 Natural Reserves whose objective is to protect the habitat of different species with some degree of threat in perpetuity.

The ProAves Reserves are: Sun Hummingbird, Chincherry, Yellow-eared Parrot, Golden Frog, Mirabilis-Swarovski, Blue-crowned Parrot, El Pangán, Torcoroma Antbird, Antioquian Warbler, Blue Sky Warbler, Pauxi Pauxi, El Dorado, El Paujil, Colorado Falcon, Andean Parrots, Pinche’s Puffer, Chicamocha Wren, Fuertesi Parrot, Tanagers, Terribilis Frog, Andivia’s Sparrow, Jaguar, Pink-faced Parrot, White-headed Tamarin, Perijá Chamicero, Harpy Eagle, Tapir; and in addition, there is El Mirador, which is managed as a loan.

The ProAves Natural Reserves are located in strategic points such as some relicts of high Andean forest and paramo, subtropical forest, tropical humid forest, very dry tropical forest and mangrove and coastal zone, where not only are a large number of endemic birds present, but not also mammals, amphibians and reptiles, as well as a large amount of flora that has not yet been studied.

In these conservation areas, different types of projects, theses and small investigations are developed, outreach to the community through specific environmental education activities, workshops, training courses and ecotourism practices; They are ideal for the recognition and observation of fauna within the framework of academic activities and university practices.

The sites chosen by ProAves to make up its reserves correspond to sites identified by the Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE). This alliance is a coalition of 63 conservation NGOs around the world, including ProAves. In Colombia there are 48 of the 595 most important sites for the conservation of threatened species in the world, and most are without adequate protection.

Thanks to the research results in the AZE sites, ProAves located the sites to establish its Natural Reserves, in this way 27,816 hectares and 1,123 species of birds are protected, equivalent to 60% of the Colombian birdlife and 77% of the endemic birds. of the country.

These achievements have had the support of organizations and people such as American Bird Conservancy, Conservation International, Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, Global Conservation Fund and Robert Giles; as well as official Colombian institutions such as the Administrative Unit of National Natural Parks of Colombia, the Mayor’s Office of Génova, Quindío, the regional autonomous corporations of Antioquia, Tolima, Quindío, Magdalena, Santander, Cauca, Boyacá, Nariño and San Andrés Islands.

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