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Bringing the Yellow-eared
parrot back from the
brink of extinction
Women for Conservation’s founder and president, Sara Inés Lara, tells the incredible story of saving a critically endangered species from extinction through community-led action and collaboration with women’s leadership. Saving the Yellow-Eared Parrot enabled Sara and our partner organization, ProAves, to establish a network of nature reserves in Colombia in close collaboration with local women leaders.
Nature Conservation
One million species are at risk of extinction within this century. The UN has recognized women’s empowerment as essential to protecting the earth’s biodiversity.
Sustainable Livelihoods
Rural women suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change and environmental degradation. Empowering women with eco-friendly opportunities directly benefits people and nature.
Family Planning
We empower women with environmentally sustainable economic, educational, and health resources which holistically benefit communities and critical biodiversity.
What Our Program Participants Say
When I got pregnant, I was too embarrassed to stay in school. If I had heard about the family planning clinic earlier, I could have avoided pregnancy. I’m not going to have another one now, that would only set me back more. In the future I’d like to study and I also want my children to study. If the mother succeeds, her children can as well, they can do what I didn’t manage to do.
I chose to get the implant because I have already lost two babies, one in 2020 and another in 2021. It was so painful. But this implant lets me decide when to have my children. Now I can study, work, see the world, and in the future I can have children when I have a job and when I’m able to give my child more opportunities. But right now I’m looking after myself so that I can study and not have to worry about getting pregnant.
Personally, I decided to get the implant because it's necessary to prevent unwanted and early pregnancies. This program has helped us a lot because here in our community, there are many many girls who haven't finished school, and they’re already pregnant. Their boyfriends leave them, they don’t live together, and so this program really helps us, because for a certain amount of time we can avoid getting pregnant. I believe that this program has been very good for all of us.
Family Planning that Empowers Women and Saves Species
Connecting the dots between family planning, conservation, and women’s empowerment. Women for Conservation was born from our commitment to empower…
Nature Conservation
We empower women and girls to lead in the field of conservation by providing them with environmental education, training, and resources to implement conservation projects.
We are directly involved in acquiring critical habitats and restoring ecosystems essential to endangered species survival.
Women’s Empowerment
through Family Planning
We focus our efforts on introducing family planning to communities in critical biodiversity areas, where preserving natural habitats and resources is key to saving unique species on the edge of extinction. We facilitate with women’s groups in key communities access to reproductive methods for family planning. In doing so, we seek to empower women and young women, increasing their future opportunities, while alleviating poverty and protecting natural resources.
Sustainable Livelihoods
Lacking economic opportunities, many rural communities turn to agriculture, cattle ranching, logging, and other activities that are detrimental to the environment and local biodiversity.
As an eco-friendly alternative, Women for Conservation trains women in sustainable livelihoods, such as working as nature guides for ecotourism, forest guards for nature reserves, and establishing artisanal micro-businesses.
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