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| Project Last Stand News |
| January 1st, 2007 Over the last three years along with your help and creative efforts, and the generous participation of our spokesperson Dominic Monaghan, Project Last Stand has worked toward raising awareness and funds for forests. We are pleased to report that PLS (along with matching dollars from the Wege Foundation) has raised the money to buy and permanently protect a section of the vital Rincon Rainforest in Costa Rica the size of three football fields. Through the work of the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund this land was added to the "Area de Conservacion Guanacaste" which crosses 9 Life Zones from the Pacific Ocean, mangroves and dry Pacific coastal plain, to the cloud forests of the Cordillera Guanacaste, to the Atlantic lowland rainforests. For more information about the Rincon Rainforest and the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund click here. We are also proud that funds raised by PLS members were enough to support the planting of over 2,700 trees in New Zealand restoring native forest habitat along the Kapiti Coast between Porirua and Waikanae. For more information about the Nga Uruora Kapiti Project click here. While we are very proud of these efforts, we feel that much more can be done. Wanting to expand our support for education on wildlands protection and sustainable communities, all of us here at PLS are turning our efforts toward the work of the Wildlands Education Council. We will have exciting things to share with you on that front in the near future. Thank you again for all of your generous support. You can visit our friends at the Wildlands Education Council, here. |