By Sarah Otterstrom | Executive Director
I’m writing you today to ask you to send in a gift to restore and protect a forest.
Here’s what’s happening. The Central American tropical dry forest is a unique ecosystem, but it almost disappeared decades ago after being logged for its fine hardwoods and cleared for ranching.
Today, there are hardly any tropical dry forest areas left, and those that survive become more damaged without protection.
Small forests are prone to man-made wildfires, and wildlife have trouble finding quality food there. And without enough nutrients, endangered animals like spider monkeys cannot survive, nor can they help rebuild the forest by dispersing seeds or fertilizing the soil.
Will you please send a in a gift via GlobalGiving to help restore and protect a forest?
Your gift will help a forest by planting trees and protecting them on private lands in Central America, especially in the dry forests of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.
Your gift will also help rangers patrol the forest to protect wildlife, build fire breaks, repair fences and trails, and clear weeds that otherwise choke young trees. Your gift will help local children visit forest areas to learn about its wondrous diversity of life, from bright blue morpho butterflies to the playful tayra badgers. With your support, the wildlife in the forests will rejoice in their safe habitat.
If the forest areas we protect do not receive the help it needs in time, then the community rangers will be laid off and will no longer be able to protect the animals there. If our rangers do not continue their work, the reforestation areas that have young trees will be covered in weeds, and only a portion of the tree seedlings will survive. And if the fences collapse and the fire breaks disappear, neighboring cattle will invade and damage the forest, and wildfires will creep over the boundary. I don’t want that to happen, and neither do you.
You care about the tropical dry forest. And you know it’s not right that dry tropical forests get logged and their wildlife is hunted down.
Your gift will restore and protect a tropical dry forest! And your gift will support all the work of Paso Pacifico.
Please make a gift to help the forest today!
For the trees,
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