Resplendant Quetzal, photo by Florian Schultz
In 2007 David Tomb went on a birding trek to Mexico. His destination was the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, an ecosystem highly threatened by logging and encroaching development, and one of the last places where the fantastically beautiful and severely endangered Horned Guan and Resplendent Quetzal exist.
This area protects one of the last great remaining cloud forests in the hemisphere and is reported to have a greater diversity of tree species than most forests in North and Central America. By itself, the Reserve holds one quarter of all the animal species found in Mexico.
That trip provided the founding inspiration for Jeepney Projects Worldwide. (see our fist post on The Jeep)
Horned Guan, photo by Florian Schultz
The Reserve is holding a contest to raise money for the El Triunfo Conservation Fund to ensure a future for the Reserve. Unsustainable practices are encroaching upon the boundaries of the reserve, and the Reserve needs to raise money for environmental education, empowering the 38 communities within the preserve to establish sustainable practices, protection of natural resources and other initiatives.
Donate just $10.00 and enter to win a trip to the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve. Help this sanctuary survive!
The photos shown in this post came from a 2007 report by the International League of Conservation Photographers during a Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition, the El Triunfo RAVE.
