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“There Would Be No Parrots Without Him:” Death of Conservationist Gonzalo Cardona Molina

January 14, 2021January 15, 2021

Gonza spent over 20 years protecting Endangered Yellow-eared Parrots and their habitat.

It’s Freedom to Choose How to Live: Supporting Voluntary Family Planning and Conservation in Colombia

December 22, 2020January 1, 2021

We're helping to better the lives of women through supporting their reproductive nights and promoting conservation.

Our First Visit to a Remote Riverside Community: How Conservation Empowerment Begins

December 18, 2020December 22, 2020

Amazing women from the Santa Maria Community in a stunning part of Colombia embrace conservation and their love and passion for nature.

Women for Conservation Successfully Intervenes to Halt Illegal Logging of the Chocó Rainforest

December 8, 2020December 10, 2020

Women for Conservation successfully funded an ambitious donation campaign to halt illegal logging that was decimating critical habitat in the Chocó rainforest.

Protecting Forest Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Women for Conservation Funds Two New Forest Guards

October 23, 2020November 21, 2020

Located within the lush rainforests of central Colombia, El Paujil Reserve and El Jaguar Reserve together protect over 13,300 acres and are refuges to many threatened and endangered species. However, since the arrival of COVID-19, increases in trespassing on reserve property have posed a worsening threat to the conservation of these species and their habitat. In response, Women for Conservation has sponsored two new forest guard positions through Fundación ProAves to help monitor and protect newly acquired reserve land. Thanks to this support from WFC, José Andrés López and Luis Eloy Silva have joined the conservation effort to protect these...