Actualités ornithologiques colombiennes d’août 2009

ProAves (www.proaves.org) is a non profit Colombian organization born in 1998 to start bird conservation in Colombia. Today, it leads bird conservation efforts in Colombia through a multi-faceted approach of good science, strong community relations and protection of the most important sites and landscapes for birds.
Here are several news published in August 2009 on its website:
ProAves has acquired strategic private properties from loggers and coca farmers to double the protection of the Paujil Nature Reserve to 6,935 acres thanks to the support of ABC and WLT-US. The El Paujil Nature reserve represents the most important rainforest protected area in the Magdalena valley of Colombia.
Recent observations of startling and up to three males and the first photos of two females and one male Blue-billed Curassow (Crax alberti), one of the most endangered birds in South America, shows the effective protection and the importance of the El Paujil Reserve for the survival of this charismatic Colombian endemic.
The Serranía de San Lucas is one of the last frontiers unknown to science, isolated and once covered with 2.5 million acres of forest to over 7,500 feet elevation. Only a fraction of its forests survive, and almost all has been designated to mining concessions. This incredible and unique massif is at imminent risk of extinction.