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Help
EcoLogic Development Fund
reach their fundraising goal by their
deadline: 31 Dec 2010.
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The Big Picture
Help protect old-growth forest that is home to indigenous Mayan communities in the Guatemalan highlands!
EcoLogic is working with the Forest Commission of the 48 Villages of Totonicapán, composed of traditional community leaders who work to protect 52,000-acres of forest, one of the last old growth forests in the region. This forest has been protected by indigenous communities for generations. Conservation measures ensure a clean water supply for 50,000 people in the region. Members of the Forest Commission set up a compensation for ecosystem services system whereby communities provide regular labor to protect watersheds in exchange for the clean water supply they receive. This system allows the communities to protect 1,200 fresh water springs by conducting regular forest patrols, maintaining potable water systems, and reforesting vulnerable and degraded areas.
Impact of Your Donation
Donations will reinforce long-established environmental stewardship practices and introduce new approaches that respond to threats to the forests and its resources through the introduction of reforestation as a means to protect vulnerable water sources. You will also be helping EcoLogic to develop alternative sources of fuel wood that do not degrade old growth forests. Reforestation will be promoted as an income-generating alternative, as nurseries will produce trees to be sold commercially.
Impact Areas
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Environment,
Poverty
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Guatemala
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