| TAPICHALACA RESERVE, ECUADOR
The Tapichalaca Reserve protects an unusually wet area of montane forest on the eastern slope of the Andes that includes almost all of the known range of the recently discovered Jocotoco Antpitta. The area is home to other vulnerable restricted-range birds such as the Bearded Guan, Golden-plumed Parakeet, and Masked Saltator. Large mammals such as Spectacled Bear and Woolly Mountain Tapir can also be found here. With assistance from World Land Trust, Fundación Jocotoco has created a 6,000-acre private reserve with a small lodge for visitors.
World Land Trust-US is an international conservation organization that purchases and protects lands that are critical for preventing immediate species extinctions and are exceptionally rich in biological diversity. Other World Land Trust-US Projects (http://www.worldlandtrust-us.org/projects/index.html) include:
• Buenaventura Reserve, Ecuador, an area of unusually high bird endemism and the only habitat of the critically endangered El Oro Tapaculo and the El Oro Parakeet;
• Cosanga Valley, Ecuador, lands covered by Andean cloud forests, host many endemic, rare and endangered species;
• San Rafael, Paraguay, a core tract of endangered Interior Atlantic forest;
• Tumbesian Region, Ecuador of south-western Ecuador, a highly threatened tropical dry forest with hundreds of endemic species.
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