One weird bird helped build 19 nature reserves.
A bird nobody had scientifically recorded helped trigger a conservation network protecting habitat across Ecuador.
ONE BIRD BOUGHT THE LAND.
A bird unknown to science until 1997 became the catalyst for a conservation network that now protects habitat across Ecuador.
WHAT HAPPENED
After ornithologist Robert Ridgely encountered the jocotoco antpitta in 1997, he and others formed the Jocotoco Foundation to protect its cloud-forest habitat. The foundation now manages 19 reserves covering about 50,000 hectares and works across additional private and communal land; its sites support more than 1,350 bird species.
WHY THIS IS HOPESLOP
One obscure bird turned into a reason to protect entire landscapes. That is the kind of wildly disproportionate good outcome Hopeslop exists for.
ORIGINAL SOURCEThe GuardianRead the original report
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