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Official Bulletin, Alliance
for the Conservation of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve.
This month Sierra Gorda will
begin to offer a summarized monthly newsletter that mentions
products and services provided by the Sierra Gorda Alliance.
We have graduated from eight years of implementing a full-size
Global Environment Facility project in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere
Reserve and Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda IAP is celebrating 22 years
of a region-wide civil conservation movement, a good reason to
regroup and share resources. Each month we will bring you up to date
and invite you to participate and become acquainted with Sierra
Gorda as a rural road to sustainability.
Sierra Gorda Ecotours
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How many green macaws
live in the Sótano del Barro, making their nests in the
cliffs inside one of the vertical caves with the longest
free fall in the world? Learn about this eco-destination
and many more in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve through
the
monthly on-line bulletin by Sierra Gorda Ecotours.
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This Spring Break, what better way to spend it than visiting
the marvels of the Sierra Gorda in a trip full of natural
beauty and culture! There is no place like it…Click
here to find out about other eco-destinations.
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Sierra Gorda
Earth Center |
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12 voluntary carbón
projects in conservation areas across the country shared
their pioneering experiences in environmental service
payments in Mexico, an exploration of voluntary markets.
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Natural protected areas, NGOs, teachers,
small businesses, social entrepreneurs among others have
joined workshops organized by the Sierra Gorda Earth Center,
proving to be an option for hands-on operators seeking
sustainable alternatives in economic development and
conservation.
Click here to see upcoming
courses.
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WILDLANDS
RESCUE CAMPAIGN
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Wildlands Rescue Campaign,
a partnership between Viva Sierra Gorda and Grupo Ecológico
Sierra Gorda. Help
permanently protect the hidden treasures, veritable
fortresses of the biodiversity in the mountains and valleys
of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, in a vital transition
zone between the neartic and neotropical bioregions of North
America. Donate on-line. We are prepared to maintain
the synergy that the Sierra Gorda project demands, the
project stays intact and grows by extending into the Sierra
Gorda bioregion with a vision of social development and
conservation management over the next years. Faced by the
urgency of a global environmental crisis requires caring for
and rescuing forests and jungles as vital strategic
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NEWS |
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The Alliance for the
Conservation of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve is a
consortium of local organizations that include the following
partners: Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda I.A.P. Bosque
Sustentable A.C., Joya del Hielo A.C., Viva Sierra Gorda and
Eco Sierra Gorda based in the USA, and Touristic Products y
Services Sierra Gorda S.A. de C.V. whose public trademarks
are Sierra Gorda Ecotours and Productos Sierra Gorda.
All of us in direct alliance with the federal management of
the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve and the National
Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP by its
initials in Spanish).
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RIO TINTO PRIZE |
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Grupo
Ecológico Sierra Gorda and the Alliance for the Conservation
of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve are among the 10
finalists of the Rio Tinto Prize (formerly known as the
Alcan Prize) and the winner will be announced in June 2009.
See the official news release.
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| CELEBRATING 22
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Celebrating 22 years as a civil organization, Grupo
Ecológico Sierra Gorda continues to make conservation the
keystone in regional management, having achieved a federal
decree for protection through a strategy built on the
response and participation of the local communities.
Consolidating our vision, we are in the process of renewing
our web page
www.sierragorda.net
and in so doing hope to inform, educate and
gain greater public interest and participation.
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THE AVON FOUNDATION´S LIVE FOR
TOMORROW PRIZE
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The Avon Foundation´s
Live for Tomorrow Prize held a national contest and the
winner this year was the rural woman´s cooperative,
Embroidery with Nature Themes, located in La Colgada, Pinal
de Amoles, in the business category. We are proud to
promote the various embroidery products through
Productos Sierra Gorda and can be visited as an eco-destination
in the Sierra Gorda Reserve.
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GRATITUDE TO ALL FOR VISITING THE
EXHIBIT
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Bombardier, the
Querétaro State Tourism Secretariat (or SECTUR QRO), the
Municipal Institute of Culture, and the Grupo Ecológico
Sierra Gorda, thank the public for visiting the open-air,
large format photographic and graphic design exposition
titled “The Heart of Mexico, Sierra Gorda Queretaro State, a
World Biosphere Reserve” on the fence of the Alameda Hidalgo
in the historic center of Queretaro City from November 2008
to March 2009. Our gratitude to the artists Jorán
Martínez, Rubén Octavio Navarette and Elena Baca for joining
this effort and our greatest respect for their work.
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THE HEART OF MEXICO, SIERA
GORDA QUERÉTARO |
Earth Island Journal, an UTNE prizewinner, selected
photographs from the exhibit “The Heart of Mexico, Sierra
Gorda Queretaro State, a World Biosphere Reserve” for its
Winter 2008-2009 issue under the title,
Forests of Memory and a
short article.
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