tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37246634508464237532024-03-14T12:18:04.869-05:00Protecting Ecuadorian Dry ForestThrough this blog, we will provide current up to date information on the activities of the Pro-Forest Foundation and Cerro Blanco Protected Forest.Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-29286513511709165402017-05-30T13:07:00.001-05:002017-05-30T13:07:27.290-05:00GLOBAL BIG DAY<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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Blanco Protected Forest was one of the most important areas in the city of
Guayaquil to realize the Global Bird Big Day, which was held on May 13, 2017
worldwide. In Cerro Blanco, three strategic areas were chosen for the count at
the Jaguar Guard Station adjacent to a restored dry forest with many bird
species as well as the trails the lower part of the Cerro Blanco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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small team made up of 6 people participated in this event in Cerro Blanco
Forest, which made the following records:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">111 species<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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bird species included Rufous Headed Chachala <i>Ortalis erythroptera, </i>Guayaquil Woodpecker <i>Campephilus gayaquilensis</i> and Great Green Macaw <i>Ara ambiguus</i>. Overall, Ecuador came in third place in the
total tally of species seen with 1100 with Colombia and Peru in first and
second place with the total tally of species seen.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-33182912771133365112017-05-30T13:01:00.001-05:002017-05-30T13:01:57.920-05:00XVII TRAINING ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETERS COURSE OF THE CERRO BLANCO PROTECTED FOREST<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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the objective of strengthening and incorporating new members to the Cerro
Blanco Protective Forest Environmental Interpreters team (Guides), the Pro Forest
Foundation organized the XVII Training Environmental Interpreters Course, which
was held from March 27 to April 8 2017 Monday through Saturday from 8am to 2pm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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promotion of the training course was carried out by social networks. A total of
27 participants enrolled in the program, including university students of
Biology, tourism, environmental engineering, veterinary sciences, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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28 instructors for 32 subjects shared their knowledge and expertise with the
course participants. Everything was
carried out as planned in the program.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in previous years’ courses, we had the support of some organizations whose
support was critical for the success of the course including:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of Tourism- provided their official
endorsement of the course and also a representative, Lic. Fanny Condo socialized
the new tourism guide regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Guayaquil Fire Department. - provided an instructor in first aid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a total of 27 participants who completed the full training program, 26
participants APPROVED the XVII Course on Environmental Interpreters of Cerro
Blanco Protected Forest and received their certification that enables them to
participate as Cerro Blanco Environmental Interpreters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-10346052663898252812017-05-30T12:49:00.001-05:002017-05-30T12:49:14.539-05:00AUDUBON CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Audubon Christmas Bird Count was held on
Sunday, December 18, 2016, with seven routes selected within the Cerro Blanco
Protected Forest and mangroves of Puerto Hondo and the freshwater lake in
Parque Lago which forms part of the count circle as well. Due to difficult
access to some sites in Cerro Blanco, participants camped Saturday night which
also facilitated the search for nocturnal birds such as owls, potoos and
nightjars. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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platform was designed so that those interested in the Christmas Count register the
results of the separate counts at the seven selected sites with the following
summary:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">50
participants</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7 routes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Total
species observed: 150</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Total of
individuals observed: 1966</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Largest
registered bird: King Vulture <i>Sarcoramphus
papa</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smallest
registered bird: Short-tailed Woodstar <i>Myrmia micrura</i></span></li>
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Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-59255000945048705662017-05-30T12:42:00.001-05:002017-05-30T12:42:50.584-05:00BIRD FEST Wings of the Dry Forest<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Pro-Bosque Foundation in coordination with
the Guayaquil Urban Birders Collective organized the <b><i>Bird Fest Wings of the Dry Forest</i></b>
event which took place in Cerro Blanco Protected Forest on December 17, 2016
from 9am to 3pm. This event was held within the framework of the Audubon 2016
Christmas Bird Count. As the Christmas Count was carried out with a limited
number of participants, we decided to open up this event to all kinds of public
interested in birds. A total of 350
people participated in the Bird fest and enjoyed the following activities:</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Market. - sale of organic products
and handicrafts</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Talks on topics related to birds for
children and adults about birds of the dry forest.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Workshops for children and adults. -
Drawing and crafts workshops.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Photographic exhibitions. - Exhibits
of beautiful photographs of the birds of the Dry Forest.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Artistic presentations. - Singers
and dancers who gave a festive touch to the event.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Photography Contest. - The winners
of the photography competition were awarded prizes.</span></span></li>
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Brigade of the Guayaquil Fire Department participated focusing on the grave
threat forest fires pose to dry forests, which included a talk on "Impacts
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Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-62865651085894203092016-09-05T16:35:00.000-05:002016-09-05T16:35:54.911-05:00Fundación Pro-Bosque won the prize in the category ¨Forests and Flora¨ in the Green Latin America Prizes<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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Bosque with the project "Restoration of dry forest in the Cerro Blanco
Protected Forest" won the prize in
the category ¨Forests and Flora¨ on August 25<sup>th</sup> in the Green Latin
America Prizes held in Guayaquil. A total of 1,407 projects were
submitted from twenty five countries including Costa Rica and the USA. Of
these, 500 projects were selected to be presented at the awards which was held
over three days and included conferences and other activities via posters and
oral presentations. Of the 500 projects thirty were selected as
finalists, three from each category. There were a total of 57 projects
submitted in our category and the three finalists included other projects from
Colombia and Peru. </span><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The earthquake that hit coastal Ecuador a month ago was felt on a deep
level. The initial shock of being on the
third floor balcony of our house and watching transfixed as power poles swung
back and forth violently like a giant pulling on the attached cables was
quickly gotten over. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As the true magnitude of the earthquake became known I felt sadness on a
visceral level for all the people including friends and families of workers
that are suffering the consequences.
Like many people throughout Ecuador we quickly moved to make a
collection of funds, clothing, canned goods and especially water to take to the
families of staff near the city of Manta in nearby Manabí Province.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Another blow was felt as the situation was taken advantage of to
implement increased taxes, docking wages, etc. in so-called solidarity for the
affected communities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With all this in mind, things began to take a rather bleak and dreary
appearance. Taking advantage of a
stunningly hot and sunny day and a break from the office, I set out to take a
walk into the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As I walked, I searched out the trees that had been planted in tidy rows
along the sides of the trail, the trees still fully leafed out before the
oncoming seasonal drought causes them to drop their leaves and go into a period
of dormancy. The black clay soils are
beginning to crack from the dryness, a few weeks ago this was muddy from the
last rain showers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I paused at the overlook with a view of the forest below me. A group of Groove-billed Anis <i>Crotophaga sulcrostris </i>called in some
nearby bushes and suddenly, one flew to towards me, landing in a flurry of
disheveled feathers almost at my feet and eyed me expectantly. I had no food on me that would attract the
bird and have never had anis be so bold before as the bird flew back to the
flock that moved on. I continued my walk
and less than 10 paces away suddenly saw a flash of white on the ground near
some totem poles a artist has installed to invoke the gods and deities of the
ancient indigenous inhabitants of this place.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A juvenile Gray-backed Hawk <i>Leucopternis
occidentalis</i> flew up quickly with something grasped in its talons to a
nearby tree. Without binoculars I could
not make out what exactly it had but it seemed to be a large <i>ameiva</i> lizard. With a ruffling of its feathers it began to
pluck at its prey clenched in its talons.
In the same spot a few days earlier I had remarked to a student that it’s
been awhile since I have seen any Gray-backed Hawks. These beautiful raptors, gray above and white
below are apparently endemic to Ecuador.
A friend, Hernan Vargas had done his Master´s thesis on the species
focusing on Cerro Blanco and the Buenaventura cloud forest to the south of us
now protected as a nature reserve by the Jocotoco Foundation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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flying over the wooded ravines loudly calling where they establish territories
and nest. Hernan had discovered a hawk
nest near the final bridge in the Quebrada Canoa or Canoa Ravine and had set up
a blind near the nest and with the help of our park guards, monitored the
nest. Hernan decided to climb up to the
nest to weigh the single laid egg and unfortunately fell. The bushes along the edge of the ravine
padded his fall. A few feet further and
he would have hit rock and the consequences much worse. In any case, I was given a scare as we hauled
Hernan out to a hospital where X rays confirmed nothing broken, but he suffered
some nasty bruises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since Herman’s pioneering study, we have tried repeatedly over the years
with different donors to obtain funding for a comprehensive study of the Gray-backed
Hawks in the Cordillera Chongon Colonche, but so far no one has shown
interest. We offer our park guards a
small economic incentive to find hawk nests, which we register with GPS
coordinates. The hawk chick featured at
the beginning of this blog entry was recorded with a park guard´s cell phone,
citizen science in action. Gray-backed
Hawks have been labeled ¨chicken hawks¨ and are often killed although my own
experience with raising chickens in the forest has shown that Collared Forest
Falcons <i>Micrastur semitorquatus</i> avidly
hunt chickens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an endangered species, gave me hope that despite all the negativities that have
been thrown our way recently, Cerro Blanco is here to dazzle and amaze those of
us who are awake and watching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Saturday, April 16<sup>th</sup> coastal Ecuador suffered a massive earthquake
of 7.8 on the Richter scale. Several
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and rising, 1,500 wounded more than 20,000 people left homeless and a long and
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bottled water, bed sheets, flashlights and other supplies to take directly to
the family members of our staff that have been affected, but this effort can´t
stop here and we are requesting support from our friends outside of Ecuador to
establish a emergency relief fund to help our staff´s families rebuild their
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Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-64141602910922062332016-04-01T17:02:00.000-05:002016-04-01T17:02:35.066-05:00Travels by Eric Horstman<div style="text-align: justify;">
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I was given the challenge to try and synthesize twenty five years work and experiences in forest restoration in a five minute presentation. The words of Roshi Joan Halifax, a teacher of mine came to the fore, go to the essence, indeed! My presentation on our dry forest restoration work in the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest was well received and we have been asked to write up the results of our work for possible submission in a journal put out by the Yale ISTF chapter.</div>
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After dipping back into the life of a student by staying with Sumit a Yale Forestry student and even participating in a Friday night pizza party with the forestry club members, I moved on to upstate New York, the Catskills to be exact.</div>
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Through a special bird, a Grey Cheeked Parakeet named Tangerine that lived with Cliff and Jane Johnson and enlivened the lives of anyone ¨Tang¨ came in contact with, I was contacted to provide information on the species, which is globally threatened and also finds a home in the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest. One thing led to another and Cliff and Jane Johnson and I developed a lasting and enduring friendship much of it maintained by e-mails and phone calls. The Johnson´s have come and visited Cerro Blanco two times and had extended the invitation to visit their bioregion, which I gladly did.</div>
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I was put to work so to speak and gave talks at Hearts Home an international Catholic organization that works among many other places in the barrios of Isla Trinitaria, a poor neighborhood in the city of Guayaquil where we are based. We have hosted a visit by Ecuadorian children that were brought to Cerro Blanco and hope to be able to work with Hearts Home in the future to develop a more extensive program that would include overnight camp outs. Taking advantage of the balmy weather of 40 degree or more days I also had the opportunity to visit the Basha Kill Wildlife Management Area ably run by the Basha Kill Area Association.</div>
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Environment Conservation. Almost 200 species of birds, 30 varieties of fish and many species of plants, reptiles, mammals and insects are found in the area. Our hosts for the visit were Mike and Paula who head up the Basha Kill Area Association. We walked along an old road on the edge of the wetland covered with logs. It was a quiet morning and besides some ducks and Canadian Geese out in the wetland calling, all was quiet. Mike said that a pair of Bald Eagles nest on a small island where a viewing platform has been built to observe the Bald Eagles which have nested every year for several years producing chicks to help bolster the population of this once endangered symbol of the United States.</div>
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No eagles were seen on my short visit but it was almost palpable the hidden life that surrounded us waiting to manifest itself as spring came to the area. It was a pleasure to be invited to speak on the night of February 3rd to the members of the Basha Kill Association and be interviewed for an article to appear in their newsletter, The Guardian.</div>
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For more information on the Basha Kill Area Association please visit their website at http://www.thebashakill.org/ or Facebook page www.facebook.com/Basha-Kill-Area-Association-BKAA-147760371963505/. For more information on Hearts Home please go to http://usa.heartshome.org/.</div>
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40 people participated in this activity which consisted of a camp where
students and the general public learned about the importance of these mammals
and what is its impact on maintaining the ecological balance of the planet. The
agenda included a conference to raise awareness by Blgo. Jaime Salas, field
placement for networks and for the collection of bats, these fieldwork was
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We should mention that in 2013 the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest was recognized by the Latin American Net for Bat Conservation as Importance Area for Bats (Área de Importancia Para los Murciélagos – AICOM)<br />
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Armando’s work is funded by World Land Trust (WLT) through the<a href="http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/keepers-of-the-wild" style="border: 0px; color: #0033aa; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keepers of the Wild programme</a>. Cerro Blanco Protected Forest, where Armando works, is managed and part owned by <a href="http://www.worldlandtrust.org/about/partners/pro-bosque" style="border: 0px; color: #0033aa; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fundación Pro-Bosque</a>(Pro-Bosque), one of WLT’s four partners in Ecuador.</div>
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The macaws arrived around 6.30am and stayed for approximately two hours, after which they flew off in the direction from whence they came. They visited an area of the forest where Pigio trees<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Cavanillesia platanifolia)</em> are common. While they were in view the birds stayed close to the ranger station, perched in a Pigio tree. Similar behaviour was observed when the macaws returned a week later.</div>
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The fact that there were five Great Green Macaws in a flight cage near the sighting may have attracted the wild macaws. During the time that the wild macaws were being monitored, they were constantly calling, and their calls were answered by the birds in the flight cage. This bodes well for when the captive bred macaws are released.</div>
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The Great Green Macaw is Cerro Blanco’s flagship species. As part of his job, Armando guards the nests of the small population of Great Green Macaws in the reserve and assists with the care and feeding of <a href="http://www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2014/06/great-green-macaws-are-prepared-release" style="border: 0px; color: #0033aa; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">captive bred Great Green Macaws</a> prior to them being released into the wild.</div>
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“Thanks to World Land Trust’s Keepers of the Wild programme, the important work of Ranger Armando Manzaba is supported, including the care and upkeep of a group of Great Green Macaws in the process of being habituated before being released back into the wild,” said Eric Horstman, Chief Executive of Pro-Bosque.</div>
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Macaws are usually present in Cerro Blanco during the months of June to October, when they search for nesting areas in areas of the forest dominated by Pigio trees. Later, when the eggs hatch and the young fledge the Great Green Macaws leave these areas and range widely through the remnant forest patches of the Cordillera Chongon Colonche which form part of a biological corridor linking them with the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest.</div>
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Armando photographed the Macaws on 8 July 2015.</div>
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WLT has recently launched <a href="http://www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2015/07/wlt-launches-keepers-wild-2020-appeal" style="border: 0px; color: #0033aa; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keepers of the Wild 2020</a>, an appeal to raise £750,000 to guarantee WLT’s ranger support programme until 2020. You can help fund Ranger Armando’s work in Ecuador by donating to Keepers of the Wild 2020.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px;"><b style="background-color: #d9ead3;">In support of World Ranger Day today, international conservation charity World Land Trust (WLT) is launching an appeal for £750,000 to fund WLT’s wildlife ranger programme, Keepers of the Wild, until 2020.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">World Ranger Day was launched in 2007 on the 15<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> Anniversary of the International Ranger Federation (IRF) in order to commemorate rangers killed or injured in the line of duty. World Ranger Day is a celebration of the work rangers do to protect the world’s natural treasures and is observed annually on 31 July and promoted by all 63 member associations of IRF.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">World Land Trust’s Keepers of the Wild programme was launched in 2011, addressing the urgent need to provide more resources and rangers to help support WLT’s partner organisations across the world. The programme has been very successful because it enables WLT’s network of international conservation partners to employ rangers to protect the reserves for which they have responsibility. In 2011 the programme supported 11 project partners to employ 14 rangers. Since then the number of rangers supported has increased steadily and in 2015 WLT is funding 19 partners to employ 32 Keepers in 15 countries.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Due to its supporters’ generous donations, WLT has managed to so far fund rangers in Borneo, Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Armenia, Guatemala, Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador. However, until now, WLT has needed to seek funds to sustain the programme on a year-by-year basis and the purpose of the Keepers of the Wild 2020 Appeal is to create a fund in order to support the programme for a five year period.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Eric Horstman, Executive Director of Fundación Pro-Bosque in Ecuador said, “Thanks to the support of World Land Trust and Keepers of the Wild, the important work of ranger Armando Manzaba is possible. His work includes the care of a group of Great Green Macaws in the process of being habituated before being released back into the wild. Armando has also documented with his cell phone a new species of frog for the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest as well as the presence of a flock of six wild macaws.”</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On July 8, 2015, the rangers Armando Manzaba (Keeper of the wild) and
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A quest spanning 15 years has unearthed one of the rarest parrots in South America.</div>
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Dr Mark Pilgrim, Chester Zoo’s director general and one of the world’s leading experts on Amazon parrots, made the 11th hour discovery which could now save a species - known as the Ecuador Amazon parrot - from extinction.</div>
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“The rate at which animals are becoming extinct is higher today than at any other time in history. In the face of this crisis, and a lack of adequate resources with which to properly address it, it’s not really surprising that subspecies are seen as being of lesser conservation importance to full species.</div>
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“This places great significance on taxonomic evaluation studies of threatened animals, as misclassifying a species as a subspecies will mean it’s likely to be overlooked as a conservation priority.</div>
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“Whilst working as a bird keeper at Chester Zoo in the late 1980s, I was fascinated by a little green parrot called the Ecuador Amazon (Latin name <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amazona autumnalis lilacina</em>). At that time we only had a pair of these parrots which came to the zoo after being confiscated by customs officials in the UK. They were part of a haul of 150 birds that had been illegally trapped and exported to Europe where they were destined to be sold illegally into the pet trade.</div>
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“I soon started to believe them to be different to three other much more common <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amazona autumnalis</em>subspecies that, historically, the Ecuador Amazon was grouped with. I thought that this parrot might actually be something very special and perhaps a species in its own right. Little did I know then that those birds would go on to play such an important part in my life.”</div>
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Dr Pilgrim therefore set out to determine whether or not <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A. a lilacina</em> is sufficiently different from the other three <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A. autumnalis</em> subspecies to be considered as a separate species.</div>
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Between 1992 and 2013, he visited museums, bird parks and zoos across Europe to try and discover more.</div>
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“The first step was to look for any morphological differences – basically body shapes and colour patterns,” said Dr Pilgrim. “So I travelled to museums in different parts of Europe to analyse more than 60 specimens, taking measurements such as wing-length, tail-length and beak shape. Not only were the specimens few and far between, some were in very poor condition which only added to the challenge. I also looked at 17 live parrots, kept at Chester Zoo, and took opportunities to analyse them only when they were anaesthetised for any pressing veterinary reasons.</div>
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“Next I looked at their genetics. Using labs at Liverpool John Moores University, I extracted DNA from feathers and looked at small differences in specific genes that were selected for sequencing. Freshly moulted, primary, secondary and tail feathers of captive Amazona parrots were used as the DNA source, as opposed to taking blood or tissue samples, to avoid causing them any stress. These feathers came from birds kept by zoos and private aviculturists from all over Europe and were collected by a strict protocol to ensure their reliability.</div>
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“Finally, I devised an ethogram – a way of cataloguing the birds’ behavioural repertoire, looking at possible differences in their courtship behaviour.”</div>
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These investigations have uncovered strong evidence that the Ecuador Amazon parrot (<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A. a lilicina</em>) is indeed morphologically, behaviourally and genetically distinctive, providing justification for it to be recognised as a full species.</div>
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But the findings, and the parrots’ impending re-classification, have far-reaching consequences. With full species recognition, the Ecuador Amazon parrot is now likely to be considered as ‘endangered’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Birdlife International, meaning it faces a very high risk of extinction in the near future. It has a greater than 50% chance of disappearing altogether in the next 20 years.</div>
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“The Ecuador Amazon parrot was previously included within a group of subspecies of which there may be as many as five million. The main implication of this work is that they are so distinct they are now considered as a full species, of which there are only 600 left. This makes a huge difference to their conservation priority.</div>
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“So having shown that it’s a species in its own right, we now need to make sure we don’t lose it.</div>
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“With 80 Ecuador Amazon parrots in European zoos as part of a conservation breeding programme, now almost a fifth of the world’s population, we realise how precious they are.</div>
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“My fear was always that the results of my work would come too late, however there is still time to save it and that’s exactly what we are trying to achieve.”</div>
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To add to the work Chester Zoo is now sending an expedition to carry out more vital research on the parrots in the wild.</div>
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A team of 11, including experienced conservationists and bird experts, will study the birds during their nesting season in the Cerro Blanco Forest in South West Ecuador. The team is tasked with monitoring the parrots, collecting important data and setting camera traps to try and learn more about them.</div>
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“Despite my 15 years of research there are still so many questions that need to be answered. We need to know what trees the parrots feed on, what else may compete for that food in the forest, where they nest and what their behaviour is whilst they nest. This basic biological information is vital to produce a conservation action plan.</div>
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"Additionally we need to do an accurate head count – we want to find out as precisely as we can just how many of these wonderful birds are left so that we can judge if and how fast the population declining. This will help us to understand what we need to do to raise the level of protection of the Cerro Blanco Forest and for the parrots.</div>
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“Having this basic information will help us to discover the best ways to protect and preserve their habitat.</div>
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“Ultimately, this expedition and the work and research the team will do in Ecuador is essential for the survival of this species in the wild.”</div>
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Fast Facts</h2>
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• Chester Zoo currently has 12 Ecuador Amazon parrots, housed in its rare parrot breeding centre</div>
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• Dr Pilgrim has co-ordinated the European breeding programme, spanning 18 zoos and bird centres, since 1992</div>
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• With full species recognition, the Ecuador Amazon parrot is now being classified as endangered by the IUCN and Birdlife International, meaning it faces a very high risk of extinction in the near future. It has a greater than 50% chance of extinction in the next 20 years</div>
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• Ecuador amazon parrots depend on forest and mangroves in western Ecuador – the most severely threatened habitat in the world</div>
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• 90-98% of the forest has been cleared for agriculture and 80% of the mangroves have been destroyed for shrimp farming. The clearance of these areas and the accompanying road building has literally paved the way for other activities such as hunting, trapping and taking youngsters from nests</div>
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• Chester Zoo already has links to the Cerro Blanco forest having earlier this year pledged support to the Pro Bosque Foundation, a local conservation organisation working in the area. Part of the zoo’s plan includes helping to rehabilitate parrots that have been confiscated by the national police and ministry of the environment and release them back into selected areas of the forest</div>
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• The Pro Bosque Foundation was set up by Eric Horstman in 1993 and works intensively to protect and restore over 6,000 hectares of dry forest that is home not only to the Ecuador Amazon parrot, but a vast array of other species including the jaguar</div>
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• Ecuador is extremely biodiverse and classed as one of the earth’s 17 "mega-diverse" countries</div>
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• Ecuador is home to over 1,600 species of birds - 17% of the world's total number of birds</div>
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• Chester Zoo’s expedition team leave the UK in late January 2014</div>
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The Pro-Forest Foundation which administrates the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest celebrated its 25th birthday with the participation of 985 visitors on Sunday, December 7th. The celebration revolved around the event ¨Festival of Nature and Culture¨ which included an eco fair with 25 stands promoting ecological projects and products with the participation of the Ecuadorian Ministry of the Environment, Environmental Unit of the Ecuadorian National Police, sister ecological groups such as Cerros Vivos and Amigos del Estero as well as vegetarian food and workshops on meditation among others.</div>
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During the day, a series of activities were carried out including a special event to commemorate Cerro Blanco´s anniversary led by Eric Horstman, Pro-Forest Foundation Executive Director as well as Camila Morales delegate of the Municipality of Guayaquil´s Tourism Department and Mr. Andres Aspiazu representing the family of one of Cerro Blanco´s founders Eduardo Aspiazu X, former President of the Guayaquil chapter of Fundacion Natura, which along with La Cemento Nacional (now Holcim Ecuador) worked to create the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest. Andres Aspiazu led the participants in a toast to Cerro Blanco and happy birthday sung with birthday cake distributed to the participants.</div>
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Workshops on different themes such as recycling and composting were carried out as well as special activities for children including games and art about the conservation of birds and bats among other topics. Guest speakers gave presentations on the dry tropical forests and the birds of the Tumbesian Bioregion. Cerro Blanco´s dedicated group of guides led visitors on walks in the forest throughout the day.</div>
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the parasitic fly <i>Philornis downsi</i>,
which is an invasive species accidentally introduced into the Galápagos
Islands, occurs naturally on mainland Ecuador. In order to do this, we needed
to observe bird nests after the birds finished rearing chicks and abandoned it.
An easy, well-established method to follow bird reproductive behavior consists
of installing wooden nest boxes with a side door that can be opened and the
inside nest (and bird activities) easily monitored. The Bosque Protector Cerro
Blanco is the perfect place for this study given its high bird diversity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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November 2013, a team of biologists from the University of Minnesota (USA),
Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina) and Universidad de Guayaquil (Ecuador)
installed a total of 158 nest boxes inside the perimeter of the Bosque
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monitored weekly in search of any sign of bird activity (nest construction,
incubation, tending to the chicks, etc.). Many of the boxes were not occupied,
as is normal during the first year in most studies. It takes time for the birds
to get used to the presence of the nest boxes and actually use them. In some cases,
nests were constructed inside the boxes but they were abandoned. In only four nest
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 1<sup>st</sup> 2014, we found five House Wren (<i>Troglodytes aedon</i>)’s eggs in a nest box.
Five nestlings hatched but only three nestlings remained on March 22<sup>nd</sup>,
they fledged on March 29<sup>th</sup>. We found 8 <i>Philornis </i>pupae in the nesting material. After examination under
the microscope in the laboratory, <b>we confirmed the presence of <i>Philornis downsi</i> in mainland Ecuador.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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genus <i>Philornis</i>: the Fasciated Wren (<i>Campylorhynchus fasciatus</i>), a common
species restricted to western Ecuador and northwest Peru </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color: windowtext;">where it principally inhabits arid and semi-arid
habitats</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;">; and the Streak-headed Woodcreeper (<i>Lepidocolaptes souleyetii</i>),</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;">a furnariid
found in Central and Northern South America.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;">Our data
indicate that <i>Philornis downsi</i> occurs
naturally on mainland Ecuador and is relatively abundant in the vicinity of
Guayaquil. Cerro Blanco is located approximately 15 km from the Guayaquil
airport and 20 km from the Guayaquil harbor. These data support the hypothesis
that <i>P. downsi</i> could have been
introduced to the Galápagos from mainland Ecuador.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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developments, wharfs and even mining exploitation. On one side, one grows fragmented in
wasteland or in the high parts of the hills.
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branches of the estero Salado (saltwater estuary) as a dense mass of
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morning flies in flocks in search of food in the higher parts of the Cerro
Blanco Protected Forest and in the evening come down to sleep in the foliage at
the foot of the brackish waters of the estuary in Puerto Hondo. They are the dry forest and mangroves, two
ecosystems that in the past dominated the geography of what is today the urban
zone of Guayaquil and that coexist divided by the via a la costa, the new axis
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administrator of Cerro Blanco and presented in December 2012 to the Ministry of
the Environment, established that the areas that have some type of protection
in Guayaquil face threats such as hunting, tree cutting to make furniture or
charcoal, the burning of forests to later plant crops and invasions (squatter
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new roads that isolate more areas like Cerro Blanco, threatened also by mining
due to its proximity to ¨the mine quarries with blasting and the production of
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require constant irrigated water, without taking advantage of the surrounding
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they are integrated in the green spaces of the city, which would give a
distinct character to the metropolis, with the presence of trees such as
guayacanes or the pigios, according to Horstman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shelters the Tijuca National Park, and a forest where the Christ Redeemer
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not been made used of for development.
The native trees of the dry forest for example have leaves that end in
points so that rainwater drips off gradually, avoiding erosion, says Nancy
Hilgert, environmental consultant. Here
what has remained in a natural state I believe has been more of an accident
than as an objective, sustains Horstman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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suburbia, isla Trinitaria and Las Malvinas in the south of the city and Urdesa,
Mapasingue and La Prosperina in the north, exterminated the largest part of the
mangrove forest that 50 years ago had an extension of 655 hectares according to
investigations carried out by students of Public Communication of Science and
Technology (Department) of the ESPOL (Escuela Superior Politecnica del
Litoral). Pozo says that at least 40% of
the city sits on what was formerly mangrove forest, in a scenario decades ago
when there was less consciousness of the value of this ecosystem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Municipality of Guayaquil is concerned about the carrying out of extractive
activities near protected areas such as Cerro Colorado, from which gravel, rock
and clay are extracted for fill. They
destroy hills leaving 90-degree slopes to take out material to fill the banks;
¨ says Velasquez, referring to rivers such as the Daule, which extends to
another of the almost disappearing ecosystems, flooded plains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The installation of housing developments and wharfs or parks along the riverbanks
are carried out without taking advantage of the function of mangroves to
control flooding. This is evidenced in
sectors such as Las Malvinas in the south of the city, where the Government
constructed a wharf on the edge of the estuary and planted trees from another
ecosystem for ornamental purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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domestic and industrial residual water to the estuary that affects the mangrove
ecosystem. There are complaints that the
treatment plants for sewage in the housing developments in the via a la costa
do not function in an adequate manner, ¨ says Velasquez.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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need. This stress makes the mangroves
susceptible to pests¨, he added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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evidence that they are sick although there are a lack of studies to verify the
causes of this phenomena, concur Hilgert and Horstman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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part of the city has observed how the natural areas have been transformed.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He arrived in the zone of the via a la costa
in 1958 coming from Libertador Bolivar, in Santa Elena.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He says that at that time, the dry forest
began to compete with pastures in the farms that were foreign owned, such as
the Hacienda Palobamba.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Despite the
pastures, peccaries, birds and deer where seen along the borders of the
highway.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Now one has to go into the
higher areas to see them¨, says Yagual, who remembers when it was common to see
in the streets of Guayaquil the sale of fruits such as caimito, which was
extracted from the forest.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">While walking through patches of dry forest in Guayaquil in the high and
deep part of the Cordillera Chongon-Colonche and let a canoe lead you on the
calm current of one of the estuaries of the estero Salado that coexist with
mangrove forest, Nancy Hilgert and Eric Horstman not only remember how these
ecosystems were when they arrived in the city 38 and 24 years ago respectively,
they also expound measures that they consider if applied could save these areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that the dry forest is their home, with the crackling of the large maroon
colored leaves that every six months the trees of this ecosystem drop to
survive the dry season, as well as the smells, somewhat rotting of the
saltwater estuary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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born in Peru but became a naturalized Ecuadorian, have dedicated themselves to
the conservation of these natural areas, Horstman the dry forest through the
Pro-Forest Foundation that administers Cerro Blanco and Hilgert both dry forest
and mangroves from a professorship, diverse NGO´s and public appointments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This newspaper invited them to traverse these natural areas in order to
evaluate them. In the visits proposals
came out to restore the areas, which according to Hilgert ¨is a necessity to improve the quality of
life of Ecuadorians¨. This was said
while the canoe advanced through the estuary bordered by mangroves where
cormorants, mangrove warblers and herons are seen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Both propose connecting the protected forests that have become isolated
in the middle of the city and to do that they propose options including canopy
bridges (connecting portions of the forest through the tree canopy),
subterranean tunnels so that terrestrial fauna can move through and regenerate
zones that make up ecological corridors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cerro Colorado where the botanical garden functions with Los Samanes National
Recreation Area. This could be achieved
through reforesting a parcel that borders the Los Geranios housing development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be done with introduced species such as eucalyptus and teak, but restoration
requires instead, endemic species such as pigio, ceibo, Amarillo and
cocobolo. With this, what is returned to
the city is what was formerly found there, which was cut down to drive urban
development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the current environmental legislation must be reformed to establish permissible
limits to the discharges of residual waters (sewage) to bodies of water, which
currently does not establish quantities (volume of discharges).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the estero Salado receives, the mangrove forests can be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the mangroves to extend them and on the higher land plant dry forest to re
establish the connectivity that once existed between the two areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-85407126844586223372014-07-31T08:56:00.001-05:002014-07-31T08:57:03.578-05:00Macaw, symbolic bird of Guayaquil with an uncertain future<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With a ´national conservation strategy´ and having been declared by a
municipal ordinance the natural symbol of the city has not permitted
maintaining or improving the population in its natural state of the Guayaquil
Macaw (<i>Ara ambiguus guayaquilensis</i>),
in critical danger of extinction and that tomorrow, July 21<sup>st</sup> is
commemorated as the Day of the Guayaquil Macaw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This subspecies of the great green macaw (<i>Ara ambiguus</i>) is distinguished by its brilliant green plumage and
in its wings light up with turquoise blue that at the tail mixes with
orange. Before the beak begins to
curve, a red crest projects out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 2005, the year that the ´<i>in situ (</i>in its natural habitat)
Guayaquil Macaw´ National Conservation Strategy was released and updated and changed to ´Great
Green Macaw National Conservation Strategy´ in 2009 as well as municipal
council ordinance were expedited as protection measures, the Ecuadorian
population of this rare bird was estimated at between 60 and 90 individuals or
20 to 30 pairs in the natural state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Eric Horstman, executive director of the Pro-Forest Foundation,
institution situated in the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest and has diverse
programs and actions to guarantee the future of the bird, estimates that now
there are between 40 and 50 individuals remaining in the wild.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The dry forest of the Cordillera Chongon Colonche and the humid forest
of Esmeraldas Province are the two principal habitats of this species, but they
are in danger because of deforestation and hunting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In captivity survive 53 individuals, the product of confiscations, and voluntarily
handing over macaws to wildlife rescue centers and zoos in the country. They are distributed in ample cages in Cerro
Blanco, the Guayaquil Historic Park and the Jambeli Rescue Foundation Center,
that has worked since 1996 in the <i>ex situ</i>
(outside of its habitat) conservation and captive reproduction of the bird.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This measure according to Joaquin Orrantia Vernaza, Director of Jambeli
Rescue is a viable alternative for the recuperation of endangered species such
as the Guayaquil Macaw. Captive reproduction also permits the eventual
reintroduction of the species in its natural habitat, which according to
Horstman, will help in increasing the population of Ara ambiguus
guayaquilensis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The biologist Mauricio Velasquez, who was the impetus behind the
declaration of the bird as the symbol of the city during his time in the
municipal environmental direction coincides in that macaws should be
reintroduced in some patches of vegetation with adequate protection and follow
them with radio telemetry (technique for measuring distances with radio
transmitters and receivers) which is done with condors in the Andes region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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¨prepare the playing field¨ so that when macaws are liberated, conditions are
apt and they will survive. Without these
guarantees, the six birds that would be reinserted in Cerro Blanco are waiting
to someday fly free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The principal limiting factor for any initiative of this kind according
to the sources that were consulted is the lack of a budget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Without funds, says Horstman a more extensive monitoring of the species
cannot be carried out, a key point of the ´national conservation strategy´
which ¨is somewhat moribund¨.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Orrantia believes that in order to set out a successful path towards the
survival of the species, there needs to be a sufficient reduction or total
elimination of the threats the species faces.
This can be achieved with integrated strategies and acting in a
coordinated manner towards the same objectives, including the general public in
the process so that they will be concerned about their local environment and
not buy these birds that according to Velasquez can cost up to depending on the
country between $2,000 and $3,500 dollars each.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In previous rainy seasons deep in the forest a lone flock of up to 11
macaws could be seen, but in the last three or four years this has not been
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The 6,078 hectares (of the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest) are not
sufficient to guarantee the survival of the species. ¨Cerro Blanco is becoming an island. Its not that you leave the protected forest
boundaries and find other forest remnants but instead you find housing
developments and quarries that often do not permit the species to leave or if
they do, they die. Where we still have
connectivity is in the eastern part towards the via a la Costa, we are working
to implement a biological corridor to connect the patches of forest¨, indicated
Horstman, who began to work in the area 24 years ago when the last housing
development was Puerto Azul and where it was normal to still see the cities´
symbol flying free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">That the area be recognized as a biological corridor might not occur if
the construction of alternate highway to the via a la Costa, because it would
go through the Cordillera Chongon Colonche.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Another problem is that some of the owners of the nearby plantations see
the Guayaquil Macaws as a plague that eats their crops. In addition to eating the seeds of the
cocobolo tree, the bird eats corn on the cob when it is still green. The agriculturalists shoot the macaws to
avoid losing their cornfields, refers Horstman.
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Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-90076056551689086792014-07-09T14:42:00.000-05:002014-07-09T14:42:28.540-05:00The Natural Symbol of Guayaquil Is Going Extinct<div class="MsoNormal">
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its most distinguished brand, the Guayaquil Macaw. It is a sub species of the Great Green Macaw
that is endemic to the coast of Ecuador.
The distribution range of the population is very reduced and it is in danger
of going extinct. This grave state is
caused by the high deforestation rate of dry tropical forest and its continued
burning to ¨clear the land¨ to carry out unsustainable agricultural
practices. The macaws are captured for
their illegal commercialization and they are often sold in both local and
international markets. All of these
factors have the bird symbol of Guayaquil <i>against
the ropes </i>as we say in boxing terms and at the point of a fatal end. It is estimated that only 30 to 40 individuals
currently remain in their natural state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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coastal highway, where besides the housing developments that surround the
Chongon Cordillera, are also found countless mine quarries that diminish the
area of the forest in its hills. Sites
where our symbolic bird lives. If it
wasn´t enough, the connectivity of the macaw´s habitat will be also lost for a
project that is working silently and plans to construct a new periphery highway
in Guayaquil through the western boundary of the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest
and cut the biological corridor linking Cerro Blanco with the Chongon and
Colonche Protected Forest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Guayaquil issued an ordinance that declared this animal ¨the natural bird symbol of the canton¨ in
addition to being the flagship species for dry tropical forest conservation
programs within the boundaries of the canton.
Later, a inter institutional work group was formed (where, although it
sounds strange now, the Ministry of the Environment and the Municipality worked
together) to initiate conservation actions, among them, the signing of a
cooperation agreement between the Municipality of Guayaquil and the Pro-Forest
Foundation to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Consolidate the Declaratory of
the Protection of the Guayaquil Macaw (Ara ambiguus guayaquilensis) through the
monitoring of the state of the populations.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Elaborate a Forest Fire
Prevention Plan.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Reintroduce and monitor
individuals of the Guayaquil Macaw (Ara ambiguus guayaquilensis) born in
captivity in the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Train professionals in the management of natural protected areas.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Implement conservation
activities for wildlife through the strengthening of wildlife rescue centers.</span></li>
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Environmental Planning in the Municipality of Guayaquil and its Environment
Director, changed their priorities for action and let this important
conservation initiative wilt, sentencing in this way, the destiny of the
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conservation in Guayaquil continues practically <u>alone </u>in its efforts to
prevent the extinction of the Macaw and has carried out reforestation efforts
in more than 250 hectares in Cerro Blanco with 35 native tree species, many of
these plants have fruits that constitute the food base of the symbol of Guayaquil in its natural
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Guayaquil in which they are asked if they are in agreement that the extinction
of the Guayaquil Macaw is carried out.
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Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-52361951400438177062014-05-30T15:57:00.004-05:002014-07-09T14:48:57.933-05:00Hummingbird behavior and evolution (Amazilia amazilia)<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span>
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Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-57967763807766953502014-05-28T16:52:00.004-05:002014-05-28T16:53:37.709-05:00Volunteers drawn beauties Cerro Blanco ForestDuring the months of April and May 20 a call for volunteers was performed with for artistic drawing skills, so that we have the participation of Mr. Hugo Mite and Mr. Raúl Galdea who made beautiful drawings of the biodiversity of dry forest tropical which are being used in the design of environmental education material for the Pro-Forest Foundation.<br />
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Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-43134172856012536252014-05-28T16:14:00.001-05:002014-05-28T16:18:24.491-05:00Adaptation and release of Six Great Green Macaws In The Cerro Blanco Protected Forest<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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Foundation has developed a successful captive breeding program for the Great
Green Macaw over a 10 year period. One
of the principal objectives of this program is the release of adult GGM´s in
its dry tropical forest habitat and contribute to the conservation program for
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and projects benefitting the conservation of the dry tropical forest ecosystem,
especially the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest, which has been used by Great
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has carried out several programs and projects that benefit directly the Great
Green Macaw in the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest and adjacent areas including
protection of nest sites and habitat through park ranger patrols and law
enforcement, habitat restoration and enhancement through the construction and
placement of artificial nest boxes as well as environmental education and
awareness building in local communities both for adults through an honorary
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Ecuador to prepare and implement a Great Green Macaw National Conservation
Strategy beginning in 2003 to the present.
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the World Parrot Trust and Macaw Landing Foundation, a reintroduction program
was began in 2012 according to the following chronology:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">In 2012 the World
Parrot Trust made the first project donation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">October, 2012
construction began on the flight aviary.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">J</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">anuary 4, 2013
seven individual macaws were transported from the Jambeli Rescue Foundation to
the future flight aviary.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">February 8, 2013
one of the macaws died from a bacterial infection.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">August, 2013, seeds
and fruits of native dry tropical forest tree species began to be incorporated
into the macaw´s diet. At first they
were not accepted. At the same time, the
provision of other foods was reduced.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">January, 2014 a
milestone was achieved when the six GGM´s began to open and feed on the seeds
of Amarillo (</span><i style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Centrolobium paraense</i><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">)
one of the macaw´s main food sources in the wild.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">February, 2014
other wild foods have been accepted, including fruits of Tutumbo Rojo (</span><i style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Cordia eriostigma</i><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -18pt;">) and other species,
which indicates that the macaws are ready for a soft release into their natural
habitat before the end of the rainy season, when the production of potential
foods is at its peak.</span></li>
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Fundación Pro-Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518401547002272152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724663450846423753.post-84298772164119356322014-05-28T15:13:00.002-05:002014-05-28T15:13:10.527-05:00Expedition Chester Zoo in the Cerro Blanco Forest to find the Red-lored AmazonLast January we had the pleasant visit of a technical team from Chester Zoo from England, whose visit was to study the Red-lored Amazon (Amazona lilacina) to determine their habitat, behavior, diet, reproduction, etc.. The study was conducted for 10 days in two areas specifically Cerro Blanco Forest and Mangroves of Puerto Hondo.<br />
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