“To Save a Forest, Look to the Women”: Women for Conservation featured in Yes! Magazine
“Women often suffer the most from environmental degradation. A nonprofit in Colombia is trying to make their needs central to conservation.” – Yes! Magazine
Family Planning
Population Matters’ Guest Report from Colombia: Conservation Through Education and Family Planning
Population Matters’ Catriona Spaven-Donn reflects on how WFC is empowering women to protect endangered species as well as become decision and change-makers in their own lives.
Record Breaking Campaign Empowers 93 Families with Family Planning Procedures in Single Day
Women for Conservation is celebrating a new record, with 93 family planning procedures delivered in two Colombian communities within a single day. In the first two months of 2022 we
63 Women Provided With Family Planning Procedures in Chocó Rainforest Region
Women for Conservation is celebrating another family planning brigade success! From January 26-28th, 2022, Women for Conservation and Profamilia were able to provide a total of 63 women with family
Women for Conservation has a Message for COP26: Leaders Must Do More to Empower Women and Girls
Empowering women is an essential strategy for climate resilience.
The Chocó: A Treasure Trove of Unique Biodiversity that Must be Saved
The Chocó and its vast rain forests in western Colombia are considered one of the most important biological hot spots on Earth. Housing an extraordinary concentration of endemic birds, plants, and amphibians (species found nowhere else in the world), this treasure trove of life is tragically threatened – creating an urgent need for us to work with local communities to save this precious jewel.
Women for Conservation Joins Thriving Together, Recognizing that Family Planning is Important for Both Women and the Environment
Today, Women for Conservation joins over 150 leading environmental and reproductive health organizations to pledge support for a first-of-its-kind campaign: Thriving Together, led by the Margaret Pyke Trust. Organizations that participate in Thriving Together form a diverse global alliance united by the agreement that improving access to family planning services is critically important for protecting the environment and biodiversity.
Women for Conservation Established to Empower Women around the Globe to Protect Nature
During the summer of 2019, Sara Lara decided to pursue her dream of fully dedicating herself to Women for Conservation and established the organization as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, based in Virginia. She looks forward to working with women around the world to advance environmental education, to support their involvement in policies that benefit land conservation and wildlife protection, and to help them be heard and seen – using the organization as a platform to promote their work.