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Centros de Rehabilitación y de Rescate
Amazoonico es un centro de rescate de animales salvajes localizado en la Región Napo del Amazonas ecuatoriano. El centro mantiene muchos animales diferentes, la mayoría rescatados del comercio de mascotas. Los animales que pueden ser puestos en libertad en sus medios naturales y reintroducidos en los centros propios GSR reserva. Ellos también están llevando a cabo campañas en las villas locales y con turistas.
Gibbon Rehabilitation Project (GRP)
El objetivo del GRP es repoblar la Isla de Phuket (Thailandia) con white-handed gibbons. Las especies fueron cazadas hasta ser llevadas a su extinción en la citada isla hace 25 años atrás. GRP ha estado probando métodos de reintroducción desde hace 10 años. Las reintroducciones siguen una relativa nueva división del movimiento de conservación así como uncharted terreno para investigar.
GRP también trabaja para acabar con la demanda del uso ilegal de gibones como atractivos turísticos y como mascotas, el GRP espera crear conciencia de la situación en la que se encuentran los gibones y del rol que el turismo juega en la demanda de crías de gibón.
El Centro de Rescate Santa Martha es un santuario animal situado en las montañas andinas de Ecuador, Sudamérica. Asistido por voluntarios, rescatan y cuidan una amplia variedad de animales salvajes los cuales han sido víctimas del tráfico de animales o de maltratos.
Este proyecto cuenta con dos centros de operaciones en el amazonas peruano. En el Valle del Alto Mayo, con una pequeña reserva para monos titi salvajes y un centro de rescate para monos choro y monos araña; y con una nueva reserva cerca del Parque Nacional Pacaya Samiria, donde se espera que los monos rescatados puedan ser devueltos a la vida salvaje. IKAMA también lleva a cabo numerosas campañas ambientales de concienciación en los medios de comunicación, tanto a nivel local como nacional.
Bolivian wildlife refuge aims to rehabilitate wild animals. The refuge provides these animals with the care they need and to provide the utmost freedom possible for each individual animal when rehabilitation is not possible. They work to stop wild animal being abused or kept as a pets.
The Israeli Primate Sanctuary Foundation
The sanctuary provides shelter for primates from laboratories, confiscated by the authorities, given by private owners and from petting zoos. The sanctuary provides psychological rehabilitation to regain their social skills and later finds permanent placements for rehabilitated primates. Many of the rescued animals are sent to their habitat countries. The foundation also dedicates much of its time to awaken public awareness to the illegal primate trade market and to the problems it creates.
The Monkey Sanctuary Trust is dedicated to promoting the welfare and conservation of primates, ending trade and abuse of primates, conserving natural habitats through education and sustainable living. The Trust is based at The Monkey Sanctuary in Cornwall, UK and is home to a social colony of Woolly monkeys and a small group of rescued Capuchin monkeys. The Trust provides advice and support for primate rescue centres around the world.
Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand. Currently WARF operates four wildlife sanctuaries that focus on providing appropriate housing and care for animals placed under their protection. Many of the animals in WARF’s care are former pets that have been maltreated, or have grown too big and unmanageable for their owners. WARF’s goal is to rehabilitate these animals wherever possible and return them to the wild. However many animals are too disabled or have been too traumatized to be able survive on their own. For these animals, the long-term care offered in the sanctuaries is their only hope of survival.
Environment and Research
Todo informacion sobre taxonomia y distribucion de Callicebus (Mono Tocon)
Estación de Biología Tropical Los Tuxtlas
This Web site describes the research programs in the Laboratory of Primatology of the field station Los Tuxtlas (Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), under the direction of Alejandro Estrada Ph.D. These programs encompass projects with wild primates, other mammals, birds and some insect groups of the tropical rain forests of southern Mexico.
Fundacion Entropika/Entropika UK
A dedicated group of individuals from varying backgrounds, countries and cultures who are working together to make a difference in the Amazon Rainforest by collaborating closely with local indigenous people to implement sustainable conservation programmes through research, education, cooperation and commitment.
A great resource. Provides news on conservation and the environment, with a focus on tropical forests and biodiversity.
The course provides an interactive learning environment, combining self-directed development of knowledge and skills with collaborative learning. The interests and expertise of staff and students are pooled to promote effective mutual support and encouragement. The objective is to create a highly flexible system that allows you to build on your strengths and to learn from the strengths of others. Regular contact with tutors and feedback from assessed coursework are important features of the course.
The first non - profit organization that allows anyone to express and decide direction of our future. There are many charity organizations that all follow their own specific goal, but OFP is the first to create something bigger: a whole new planet of change. We believe that through a joined discussion of opinions, greater decisions can be made. We raise sponsorship to support and implement the petitions of our citizens with the most support.
The Pitheciine Action Group (PAG) promotes the effective conservation of the genera Callicebus, Cacajao, Chiropotes and Pithecia. Its main objectives are to coordinate and encourage research, act as a clearinghouse for information and resource sharing, and provide information to guide policy decisions. Current PAG activities include producing the book ‘Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris’ and, together with the Brazilian Environmental Protection Agency (IBAMA), developing Action Plans for all the endangered Brazilian taxa.
Primate Info Net (PIN) is a web resource designed to cover the broad field of primatology providing original content and links to resources about nonhuman primates in research, education and conservation.
The aim of the Darwin Initiative PRIMENET project is to develop a comprehensive strategy for the critically endangered brown-headed spider monkey (Ateles fusciceps), vulnerable primates and habitats in NW Ecuador, based on a programme of monitoring, education and sustainable livelihoods within local communities.
The Los Cedros Reserve consists of 17,000 acres of premontane wet tropical forest and cloud forest and is home to the critically endangered brown headed spider monkey. The reserve is a southern buffer zone for the 450,000 acre Cotocachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve, and both are part of the Choco Phytogeographical Zone. The Choco region is one of the most biologically diverse and endemic habitats on Earth. Along with simply protecting the forest from further deforestation, the purpose of Los Cedros is to protect the four major watersheds within the reserve.
Restore UK was established in 2001 as a grant-making charity to invest in the protection and restoration of Britain’s natural habitat. This vision has since expanded to incorporate environmental and bio-diversity issues globally.
Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS)
Conservation of the endemic Sumatran orangutan (pongo abelii) and its native habitat through: Promoting public awareness of, and participation in, conservation strategies for the Sumatran orangutan through campaigns, community education and global communication and collaboration with Indonesian conservationists in the establishment and running of the Orang-utan Information Centre, and assisting the Government-run Bohorok Orang-utan Centre in the care of ex-captive orang-utans.
The Woolly Monkey Project conducts census work to provide a baseline for future monitoring by assessing the status of primates and other animals hunted for food in the Southern part of Amacayacu National park (Colombian Amazon), an area intensively exploited by people from the Tikuna indigenous communities. The Woolly Monkey Project is also involved in community education work and helps provide alternative income to people in the area.
Human rights and Development
Colombia Solidarity Campaign UK
Seeking to help counter selective and bias reporting and gives opposition to paramilitary violence backed by foreign capital which is extracting resources at the expense of the Colombian people and it’s flora and fauna. The Colombia Solidarity Campaign campaigns for a socially just and sustainable peace in Colombia based on a respect of human rights and an end to foreign military intervention.
Aims to inform about the violation of human rights and environmental law by national, international and transnational actors in the Amazon, to contribute to a open discussion about raw materials and climate change, as well as the continuing disappearance of indigenous culture and protected fauna and flora. The association organizes campaigns in the public sphere as well as lectures and supports the network of activists in Europe and Latin America.