Fundación ProAves

Fundación ProAves

Fundación ProAves is a nonprofit environmental organization in Colombia established in 1998. Its primary aims are to protects birds of conservation concern and their habitats across Colombia.

ProAves currently has 58 full-time professional staff, and 21 conservation programs in progress which have resulted in the creation of the largest private reserve system to protect endangered species in the country (12 strategic bird reserves protecting 40,000 acres and 68% of all threatened birds in Colombia); significant reforestation efforts; the management of a national bird banding and monitoring program (285,000 records, 90,000 birds banded); management of three community properties that adjoin reserves through municipality agreements; establishment of the first Colombian conservation easement; discovery of three species new to science; establishment of three national, annual environmental awareness campaigns (Palm Sunday, Migratory Bird Festival and Paujil Bird Festival; and the establishment of a network of 10 local ecological groups called “Amigos de las Aves”.

www.proaves.org

Principal areas Fundación ProAves is working to conserve include Serranía de las Yariguies, Serranía de los Churumbelos, Serranía de las Quinchas, Pacific slope of Nariño, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and the department of Antioquia.

ee also

*BirdLife International

References

* Anonymous (2006): New Bird Discovered on Unexplored Colombian Mountain by BP Conservation Programme Project. "BP Conservation Programme Newsletter" 2006(27): 2-3. [http://conservation.bp.com/pdfs/September06_Newsletter.pdf PDF fulltext]
* Donegan, Thomas M. & Huertas, Blanca (2006): A new brush-finch in the "Atlapetes latinuchus" complex from the Yariguíes Mountains and adjacent Eastern Andes of Colombia. "Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club" 126(2): 94-116. [http://www.proaves.org/IMG/pdf/Donegan_Huertas_Atlapetes_latinuchus_yariguierum.pdf PDF fulltext]
* Donegan, Thomas M. & Huertas, Blanca (2005): Threatened Species of Serranía de los Yariguíes: Final Report. Published online by Fundación ProAves, Colombia. "Colombian EBA Project Report Series" 5. [http://www.proaves.org/IMG/pdf/EBA_5_Serrania_de_los_Yariguies_report_2005.pdf PDF fulltext]
* Huertas, Blanca & Donegan, Thomas M. (2006): Proyecto YARÉ: Investigación y Evaluación de las Especies Amenazadas de la Serranía de los Yariguíes, Santander, Colombia. BP Conservation Programme. Informe Final. Published online by Fundación ProAves, Colombia. "Colombian EBA Project Report Series" 7. [http://www.proaves.org/IMG/pdf/Colombian_EBA_Proyect_Report_Series_7-3.pdf PDF fulltext]
* Salaman, Paul & Donegan, Thomas M. eds. (2007): Estudios y Conservación en la Serranía de los Churumbelos. "Conservacion Colombiana" 3. [http://www.proaves.org/article.php?id_article=321]

External links

* [http://www.proaves.org/ Official site]
* [http://www.sna.org.co Sistema Nacional de Anillamiento] (SNA)
* [http://www.abcbirds.org American Bird Conservancy] (ABC)
* [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=409237&in_page_id=1770 Striking new bird discovered in South America.] Daily Mail, October 8, 2006. Retrieved 2006-OCT-09.
* [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061009/ap_on_sc/colombia_bird_discovery Groups find colorful bird in Colombia] Associated Press, Lauren Dake, October 9, 2006
* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/contributor.phtml?idContributor=98 ProAves bird videos] on the Internet Bird Collection (IBC)


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