Cauca guan (Penelope perspicax)
Mohamed bin Zayed Species project number 0925643
WCS Mission statement The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide. We do so through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Together these activities change attitudes towards nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in harmony. WCS is committed to this mission because it is essential to the integrity of life on Earth. Background WCS, founded in 1895, has the clear mission to save wildlife and wild places across the globe. In the early 1900’s we successfully helped the American bison recover on the Western Plains. Today, we protect many of the world’s iconic creatures, including gorillas in the Congo, tigers in India, polar bears in the Arctic and ocean giants in our world’s seascapes. With a commitment to protect 25 percent of the world’s biodiversity, we address four of the biggest issues facing wildlife and wild places: climate change; natural resource exploitation; the connection between wildlife health and human health; and the sustainable development of human livelihoods. In Colombia, WCS focuses its actions in the Central-Western Andean region of Colombian (see Map 1). WCS has been working in this landscape for seventeen years, carrying out activities framed within four different but complimentary strategies: research, capacity building, technical assistance and policy making. Research projects currently focus on a set of priority landscape species (spectacled bears -Tremarctos ornatus; pacarana - Dinomys branickii; neotropical otter - Lontra longicaudis; Cauca guan - Penelope perspicax; cinnamon teal - Anas cyanoptera; golden-plummed parakeet - Leptosittaca branicki), particularly endangered vertebrates (e.g. amphibians) and critically threatened ecosystems (e.g. dry forests, wetlands and Paramo scrublands). Furthermore, throughout the years the team has conducted research projects on various threatened species (including birds, mammals, frogs and plants), animal and plant communities, forest dynamics and the effects of habitat reduction and fragmentation. Most of these projects are either conducted by graduate and undergraduate students or research associates, who are provided with the opportunity to fully design and implement conservation oriented research projects, thus building capacity among young professionals. Additional capacity building activities are conducted with governmental staff and local communities. WCS Colombia provides technical support to the design and implementation of a Regional System of Protected Areas in the Eje Cafetero region (part of the Central-Western Andes region of Colombia). WCS Colombia works together with various governmental entities, including: Colombia’s National Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development, Colombia’s National Natural Parks Service, Regional Environmental Authorities of the Valle del Cauca (CVC), Risaralda (CARDER), Caldas (CORPOCALDAS), Tolima (CORTOLIMA) and Quindio (CRQ) Departments, as well as with local and international NGOs and individuals.
Project number: 0925643
Awarded amount: $15,000
Awarded date: 16-09-2010
Continent: South America
Country: Colombia
Catalina Gutierrez Chacón
Wildlife Conservation Society - Colombia
Carrera 25 # 4-39
Cali
Valle del Cauca
760043
Colombia
Tel: +57 2 6831103
Mob: +57 2 3178553439
Fax: +57 2 6831103
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