Helping Species Flee Climate Change in Colombia'

Colombia’s forests have become fragmented and degraded as agriculture moves up the mountainside and penetrates deeper into the lowlands. Sadly, the effects of climate change are already apparent here. As a result, many cloud forest species have started to migrate upslope to maintain a favorable climate. Saving Nature is working with the Hummingbird Conservancy to connect and restore forests, protect species from imminent threats, and prevent extinctions. In doing so, they’ll help create a large protected area for endemic and threatened species from the east and west. Restoring the forest from degraded land will also soak up a lot of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. With so many endemic species in the region, protecting them is almost synonymous with preventing their global extinction. These species are one of the important beneficiaries of Saving Natures' work, as are the other threatened species in the region. Saving Nature has catalogued 328 birds species, 183 mammal species, 3,000 plant species and