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Engaging Communities to Conserve the Black-breasted Puffleg Hummingbird in Ecuador

Grantee Name: Fundación Ecuatoriana para la Investigación y Conservación de las Aves y Sus Hábitats (Aves y Conservación)

Hotspot
Tropical Andes
Location
Ecuador
Amount
$79,436
Dates
Sep 2023 – Mar 2025
Keywords
Capacity building, Community-based conservation, Education, Gender, Habitat conservation and management, Reforestation, Research, Species Conservation

Implement the conservation acton plan for the Critically Endangered Black-breasted Puffleg hummingbird by supporting reforestation and land restoration, strengthening a community women’s association undertaking reforestation, researching puffleg reproduction and habitat, carrying out environmental education, and studying the feasibility of purchasing land to create a new private protected reserve.

Strategic Direction :

3 Safeguard priority globally threatened species.

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