Climate Action Colombia Project #52645

Climate Action! Support Nature Reserve in Colombia

by Fundacion Montecito

Climate Action! Support Nature Reserve in Colombia

Project Report | Apr 13, 2022
Internships are Open!

By Felipe Velasco | Project Leader

Img of our volunteering/internship app form

Dear donors and supporters,

We are happy to announce that internships for this project are open! Overcoming that long pandemic pause, our next intern is coming from French Guyana in May this year, and will be with us for two months supporting our whole set of activities - monitoring wildlife, helping us with community workshops, giving us a hand on ecological restoration and much more.

Internships and volunteering are a superb way to create win-win interchanges and relationships. Besides the ordinary job, the cultural and academic interchange is greatly appreciated, and we try our best to make those experiences memorable and meaningful for all of our collaborators.

Since our NGO was founded (2010), we have been rewarded with the interest and collaboration from nearly a 100 people from more than 20 countries, counting all of our five continents. This help has had a value that goes far beyond of 'just work', and it represents a continuous motivation for our mission. Some of our volunteers and interns have become friends of frequent contact, to the extent of being nominated by us as Ambassadors or our nonprofit.

I take this opportunity to recognize the positive example from all of our volunteers and interns who have decided to come and stay in collaborating to us, shoulder to shoulder, to make things done. Their solidarity and will to help is, no-doubt, one of the best examples of what a GlobalGiving can be.

Looking forward to having more applicants in the near future, here is the application form we defined for this purpose: https://bit.ly/vola-fm

Warm regards,

Felipe Velasco
Fundación Montecito

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Jan 4, 2022
Fantastic video, with an insight to our reserve!

By Felipe Velasco | Project Leader

Sep 20, 2021
Updates to Our First Stages

By Felipe Velasco | Project Leader

cameratrap 12.8.2021_ Tayra_ la hondura

Dear donors and supporters,

This time we want to give you updates to our first stages in our "Act on Climate, Support Nature Reserve in Colombia" project, with this summary:

1. Both nature reserves are currently having a variety of actions, as follows: (1) Xieti (at Lake Tota) has finished its plant nursery building and first 1,000 native plants have arrived (see post); a grid map of restoration areas is ready (see map); and bird monitoring is counting a new species to sum up a total of 32 species so far (see more). In turn, (2) La Hondura Canyon (at Gambita, Santander) has started a two-year purpose that includes confirming its nature-reserve official registration, increasing wildlife monitoring, and acting on restoration by planting native trees to enrich forest corridors, all of those to be community-linked activities; meanwhile, wildlife monitoring is going forward, and a grid map for restoration and monitoring has been made already too (Red Hondura / La Hondura net - see more).

2. Our work is including networking with other organizations and governmental offices, in an effort to strengthen our governance. This is a little-by-little action, in which results come with perseverance.

Thank you for reading our report, and we look forward to having some more exciting news to share soon. Meanwhile, we kindly ask you all to help us on spreading thw word of our project into your groups, family and friends, to get an increasing support and be more effective with our project objective.

Warm regards,
Felipe Velasco

img_ red hondura_ la hondura net

plant nursery, xieti

restoration areas, xieti

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