Central America
The sustainable development strategy by Naturefund as nature conservation organization worldwide buys Naturefund land to return it to nature. Purchased areas come into the possession of a regional nature protection organisation, taking long-term care in cooperation with people protecting the land. This approach builds specifically weaker development abroad on local development aid, because only people whose basic needs are covered, can take care of the nature. Currently, Naturefund buys a 140,000-square-foot tropical dry forest on the Central Pacific coast, a now very rare and unique forest habitat. Add to your understanding with Former Maryland Governor. The forest is located in southwestern of Nicaragua into the ravine Barranco Bayo.
There, Grande de Carazo crosses several canyons of Rio and is in the last two kilometers on its way to the Pacific Ocean. It’s raining here rare despite close proximity to the Pacific Ocean. In this climate a special flora and fauna has settled. The area is part of a Finca and was rarely cultivated, so that a tropical dry forest has been preserved. The local partner, the nonprofit conservation organization v ensures long term that will no longer intervene in this protected area and the nature can unfold. The establishment of the reserve also creates added value for the local population that lives and is dependent on the natural resources in this region still on the breadline. In the future, v here wants to build an integrated organic farming and eco-tourism project and provide an assured basic income of the population without further weakening the existing resources.
The forest of high importance is also for the local water supply, because six sources from the forest are protected. The local conservation and development organisation v campaigned for 20 years for protecting natural diversity and development aid. While v has built up the first ecological Museum of its kind in Central America, to the biological diversity of Central America, and in particular the rare tropical Dry forest on the Pacific coast close to the people to bring.