Family Planning in El Chocó: A Win for Women’s Reproductive Justice and Nature Conservation Over the course of two days, Women for Conservation in collaboration with ProAves and Profamilia organized a reproductive health brigade in Medellín, where 23 women on our waitlist from El Carmen de Atrato, Chocó, received tubal ligation procedures. […]
From left to right: Hernando García, General Director of the Humboldt Institute; Maria Isabel Hernández Parra, President of the ANUC Board of Directors; Sara Inés Lara, Executive Director of ProAves; Martha Rosero, Delegate of Conservation International; Arnold Rincón, General Director of CODECHOCÓ. Historic Conservation Victory: Establishing Las Tángaras Regional Nature Park El Carmen de Atrato, […]
Nestled in the verdant embrace of the Amazon Rainforest, Colombia’s El Jaguar Nature Reserve stands as a sanctuary for a plethora of wildlife, including the endangered Yellow Spotted River Turtle (Podocnemis unifilis). Facing severe threats like poaching, egg harvesting, and habitat loss, these freshwater turtles are vital to the ecological balance of the Amazon River […]
A Dream Realized Through Your Support We are thrilled to share a heartwarming success story that showcases the incredible impact of our generous donors. Thanks to your unwavering support, Women for Conservation has achieved a significant milestone by raising the funds needed to bring environmental education to blossoming young conservationists of Puerto Pinzón. Our campaign, […]
We are thrilled to announce that Women for Conservation has been chosen as a grant recipient by Daughters for Earth! This new partnership will empower us to move forward with the next steps of our Amazon Rainforest Women’s Research station along the Guaviare River. This grant will support expansion of a biological research and conservation […]
Project Overview: Women for Conservation is excited to announce our first women-led conservation partnership with Fanamby Organization in Madagascar! Our incredible supporters helped W4C raise $3,600 to fully fund this project to support 6 new women forest rangers, who help to protect and restore degraded land for the benefit of both wildlife and rural communities. […]
Project Overview: In Women for Conservation’s first partnership project with Friday’s for Future Sierra Leone, we seek to launch a reforestation training project led by 100 local women and children. A 10-year rebel war, population pressure, and rapid deforestation have disproportionately burdened women, children, and other vulnerable groups in rural Sierra Leone. This grassroots, women-led […]
October 2020 Through the generosity of our supporters, Women for Conservation is now able to protect 79 acres of lowland rainforest in perpetuity! The land in question was at imminent risk of destruction. It lies within the Fundación ProAves Titi Nature Reserve in northern Colombia, except the acreage was privately owned and open to mining. […]
We are thrilled to announce that we have raised the funds to protect a unique Magdalena Rainforest habitat from destruction! Along with our partner organization ProAves Colombia, we were able to acquire 183 acres of strategic land, which will block a proposed road from cutting through the heart of our Pauxi Pauxi Reserve. Rainforests are […]
