Happy World Wildlife Day everyone! Projects Abroad takes caring for the world and its inhabitants very seriously, and we have Conservation Projects around the world focused on reforesting rain forests, researching animals and birds and protecting endangered creatures and habitats.
In Cambodia, we conserve rare sea horses, while in Costa Rica our focus is on bats and butterflies. Bats are vital to the survival of the forest and the control of plagues. They are natural pollinators, spreading seeds that aid in forest regeneration. They also eat insects that feast on corn and bean crops as well as mosquitos that carry diseases that can be lethal to humans, such as Dengue Fever, malaria, and Chikungunya. How are we conserving them? As a result of the importance of bats to the ecosystem, species investigations are an important aspect of work carried out by conservation volunteers in Barra Honda National Park. To date, volunteers have assisted biologists in identifying over 45 different species within the park. “Just in Barra Honda we have about 5% of bat species in the world. We have more species in Barra Honda than the U.S. and Canada together,” says resident biologist and bat expert, Eduardo Artavia.
In Galapagos, we conserve giant tortoises, sea lions and the marine iguana, which is endemic to the Islands.
In Kenya, we're protecting the endangered Rothschild's giraffe - our reserve is home to 5% of the endangered Rothschild’s giraffe population, of which there are only an estimated 1000 individuals of this sub-species left in the wild!
We have helped Mexico become the 4th best country in the world at protecting turtles. We work in partnership with the government on the turtle project, therefore every turtle our volunteers save is recorded on the official government records. We have released One Million, Seven Hundred and Thirty Two Thousand, Two Hundred and Sixty Eight (1,732,268) turtle hatchlings into the wild over the last 10 years. We also have crocodile and bird biodiversity projects in Mexico. We have two lagoons on which we do bird surveys, one inland and one on the coast. We have positively identified over 100 species in both these areas, some of the same in both areas and some different species.
In Nepal, we are the only organisation conducting active research with bird and mammal surveys in the area. 300 species of bird have been identified in our study, along with 13 species of mammals, and 41 butterfly species.
In Peru, our conservation projects extend to protecting butterflies and caimans, and we have an animal rescue and rehab project and a bird banding project. We catch birds, and record their species and details for a database. 462 species of birds have been identified in our reserve; this is 4.3% of all known bird species, according to the IOC (International Ornithologist Union).
In Botswana we have a general African wildlife Conservation Project, while in Thailand we focus on marine conservation and sea turtle protection. In Thailand, over 250 marine species have been identified in our marine survey. We collect endangered species data, which is entered into a global database and used to produce scientific papers.Over 1 000kgs of marine trash has been collected in the past year with Project Aware.
Finally, in Fiji, we're all about the sharks - we aim to conserve these beautiful apex predators for generations to come.
If you're interested in doing one of our Conservation Projects, please don't hesitate to get in touch! Otherwise, take a moment today to think about some small and worthwhile ways to help our rapidly depleting wildlife.
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