Help protect the Cambugan Watershed

From CFI

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JOIN TO CREATE A WILDLIFE CORRIDOR IN THE PASO ALTOS RANGE OF THE TROPICAL ANDES AND PROTECT IT…FOREVER!

We need your help to protect a wildlife corridor in the Paso Alto Range of Ecuador, to connect the Mindo-Nambillo and Cotochachi-Cayapas reserves.

Ecuador’s Tropical Forests are home to the greatest concentration of species on the planet and will be completely destroyed by logging and mining by 2035 - unless we ACT NOW!

Cloud Forest Institute is partnering with local Ecuadorian community organization Allpa Janpirina and well known international forest protection organizations Rainforest Information Center (Australia) and Rainforest Concern (UK) to raise funds to purchase and protect parcels of land and create a wildlife corridor between the Mindo-Nambillo, and the Cotocachi Cayapas forest reserves.

WITH YOUR HELP WE'VE PROTECTED OVER 625 ACRES! HELP US PROTECT THE 535 ACRES LEFT TO COMPLETE THE CORRIDOR.

The Ecuadorian Paso Alto Range of the Andes in the Cambugan Watershed is home to jaguars, spectacled bears and the highest number of amphibian and endemic bird species – IN THE WORLD.

For only a $50 tax-deductible donation you can save an entire acre in your name, or in honor of a loved one.

• For every grove protected CFI will issue a certificate, suitable for framing that includes the donors name, the name of the Honorary Grove, the number of acres you are protecting and a special message of your choosing. See the list of Honorary Groves allready established.

For the price of tank of gas, or a pair of shoes, or a couple of CDs, you will be protecting the world’s only home to the plant that might hold the cure for cancer or AIDS.

• Your Company Can Become A Business Sponsor

• Host a bake sale or car wash, throw a party and collect small donations from your friends. Hold a yard sale and donate the proceeds to save Cloud Forest.

The full economic value of a forest includes not just wood, but also the benefits (both monetary & non-monetary) from non-timber products (e.g. food, fibers, forage, medicines), environmental services (CO2 absorption, oxygen production & air purification, climate regulation, watershed protection, groundwater recharge, soil & water conservation, biodiversity & ecological balance, scenic beauty), as well as recreation & tourism.

We encourage Elementary, Jr. High, and High School classes to work together to fundraise and protect a grove in their names. Students can learn about the Cloud Forest, and proactively help conserve it in any number of ways; do a recyclables collection drive, sell raffle tickets, and other small fundraisers and protect a “Childrens' Forest” for the future health of our planet and all life within its biosphere.

We also need people power help to get the word out. Please contact us to volunteer!

Contact: Freeda Burnstad, Cloud Forest Institute, 707-463-2482

Thank you for your willingness to help. You can make a donation online through Network for Good. The Network for Good process gives you an option to designate how your donation will be used; here you should write Name? Honorary Grove and the address where you would like the frameable certificate sent. i.e. "Dawn Day Honorary Grove" 123 Hope St. Hometown CA 98765. In the field below that you can fill in a short dedication to be used on the certificate suitable for framing that we will send. Please mark the option to allow us to be notified of your email address so that we may contact you to confirm your dedication and the address where it is to be sent.

If you would like to mail your check or money order donation to Cloud Forest Institute, PO Box 1435, Ukiah Ca 95482 please include the above mentioned information in your letter.