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OUR PLANS: A REFUGE AND RIPARIAN FOREST INTERPRETIVE CENTER 
Our founders have identified and planned for a number of activities at La Pedregoza
Natural Reserve. The first is to undertake an extensive biological inventory of the
natural reserve together with the world-renowned Omacha Foundation.
The Omacha Foundation will provide key technical assistance for the operation of a
natural reserve, thanks to a Memorandum of Understanding with our founders. Omacha
will consult and assist on how best to expand the native tree species in the reserve,
and what steps need to be taken to ensure that area wildlife receives the utmost benefit
from this refuge. Omacha has already expressed a desire to work with us to operate
an aquatic turtle hatchery program, whereby turtle eggs will be collected up and
down the Rio el Bita before poachers can take them, hatched at a facility in
La Pedregoza Natural Reserve and then released into the Rio el Bita using
a protected river inlet in the reserve.We are also keen to have various studies and research conducted using La Pedregoza Natural Reserve as the base. Thanks to another Memorandum of Understanding the founders have with the University of Alberta's Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences and their Department of Rural Economy, two studies are planned on carbon sequestration by tropical trees and the other on the development of forest communities in equatorial regions. Besides the core purpose of conservation and preservation, the natural reserve will be an invaluable educational resource for local people and for international visitors. Locals will be able to learn that preservation and conservation create economic benefits through eco-tourism and genetic diversity. Our founders believe that an interpretive center, together with the turtle hatchery and planned observation platforms within the inundation forest will create a basis for the future sustainability of La Pedregoza Natural Reserve. Plans for the natural reserve include providing local people with employment opportunities, while international and domestic researchers and volunteers will be able to assist through studies and hands-on conservation and preservation projects and programs. |
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