Rio Pucuno Foundation
THANKYOU!
Rio Pucuno Foundation is pleased to announce the recent purchase of 50 acres of critical forest in the Sumaco area. All the funds used for our purchase were donated by people concerned about saving rainforest in the Andean Foothills.
And WOW!!! - some great animals live here! Camera traps have photographed large and medium predators PUMA, MARGAY, JAGURUNDI and TAYRA, as well as many prey species: Red Brocket Deer, Collared Peccary, Paca, Black Agouti, Tamandua, Coati, Four-eyed Opossum, Nine-banded Armadillo, and a host of other small animals. Photos are on next page of this site.
The same cameras have documented the presence of many bird species, including GREAT TINAMOU, WHITE-THROATED QUAIL-DOVE, GRAY-THROATED LEAFTOSSER and SPOTTED NIGHTINGALE-THRUSH. The rich diversity of animal life seen here demonstrates the health of the area's forest. RPF's goal is to save as much of it as we can, while it can still be purchased and preserved.
Our new parcel serves as a crucial corridor between several excellent pieces of land that RPF either owns already, or hopes to buy in the near future. We're working with the current owners of this other land, encouraging them to preserve their primary forest until we can raise the funds to buy it.
Our heartfelt thanks go to all of you who have donated to the RPF in the past, and we encourage everyone to help us continue our work, by making as generous a donation as you can afford to Rio Pucuno Foundation, TODAY, while you're thinking about it!
Saving Rainforest in Ecuador's Eastern Foothills
There's world-wide understanding and support for conservation of lowland jungle rainforest, and of the much higher elevation cloud forest, but there's little discussion about the need to preserve the area between them, foothill rainforest. The foothills host many species living only at this particular elevation (900-1500 m) as well as representatives from both higher and lower elevations.
Sadly, prime foothill forest continues to be logged at an alarming rate, threatening the very existence of many bird and animal species living in it. Donations to help purchase and preserve this foothill forest are desperately needed.
The non-profit Rio Pucuno Foundation (RPF) was established by the owners of Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary for the express purpose of buying and preserving foothill rainforest in Ecuador before it disappears under the pressure of chainsaws. We are proud of our private corporate efforts and accomplishments in Sumaco, but realize that any significant expansion of our work will depend on securing additional funding, and of putting land purchases into a foundation to ensure that the land and forest will be kept in perpetuity.
As a non-profit organization, Rio Pucuno Foundation is able to receive grants and financial contributions for conservation and education, operating separately from our privately-held company. It has been approved by the appropriate government agencies and is fully chartered under the laws of Ecuador.
Because Rio Pucuno foundation is small, we are personally involved in all aspects of it and the rest of our reserve, so your donation to RPF will give you an unusual opportunity: when you visit Sumaco, we can show you precisely the forest that your contribution helped save, you can walk on it and be proud that you are part of the reason that it still exists.
We urge you to become involved, and to help Rio Pucuno Foundation with a donation today!
(Please visit next page, Projects and Ongoing Support)
US citizens' contributions to Rio Pucuno Foundation are now tax-deductible when made through World Land Trust-US. This may be done by sending a check or money order to World Land Trust-US, 2806 P. Street NW, Washington, DC 20007. Make your check out to World Land Trust-US, and please indicate both in a cover letter and on the check that you would like your tax-deductible donation to go to Rio Pucuno Foundation, Ecuador.
To donate by credit card, please visit the WLT-US website www.worldlandtrust-us.org and follow the steps (be sure to type Rio Pucuno Foundation in the designation box below the billing information, under "additional information").
Most generously, WLT-US sends the entire amount of each donation to RPF, without commission.
To contact us, please write to bonnie@riopucunofoundation.org or jonas@riopucunofoundation.org
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