News from Pro Cosara

September 26, 2008

Ride for the Trees - An Environmental Bicycle Tour through the Americas

On January 1st, 2009, the two Peace Corps Volunteers Samuel Hagler and Randy Jones will start a 10,000-mile bicycle tour through 13 countries from Paraguay to the United States. Their ride across the Americas is planned to last about 10 months. Along the way they will make environmental education presentations, conduct media interviews, and continue fundraising to reach their goal of $100,000 to protect the San Rafael Reserve in Paraguay.
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May 25, 2008

ECOSARA

ECOSARA, the Estación Ecológica de San Rafael, is a new volunteer programme developed by Pro Cosara. Charged with the conservation of San Rafael, arguably the most threatened and biodiverse reserve in Paraguay, Pro Cosara and ECOSARA offer volunteers the opportunity to work on year-round scientific and conservation projects in one of the most important but under-studied reserves on the planet. With a permanent scientific staff and the forest on the doorstep ECOSARA has been designed to stimulate biological research in the San Rafael area to establish a scientific basis for conservationist claims as to the importance of San Rafael.
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December 26, 2006

A look back at 2006

A look back at 2006: What we achieved for San Rafael in the last year.
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