Protection Through Ecotourism
The Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to Sustentare, the US partner of ONÇAFARI, a Brazilian wildlife organization. The grant will support ONÇAFARI’s effort to establish several “re-wilding” facilities. ONÇAFARI has had considerable success in re-introducing injured or orphaned jaguars into the wild, and it now wishes to establish facilities that will allow it to re-introduce other endangered species into Brazil’s tropical forest, including tapirs and Pantanal deer. The grant supported the construction of these re-wilding facilities over a two-year period.