By Colum Muccio | Development Director
Dear Friends,
Greetings from all of us here at ARCAS in Guatemala. We continue our efforts to save Guatemalan wildlife and habitat. We would like to share with you several documents summarizing some of our recent accomplishments.
Attached we are sending you our Sea Turtle Situational Analysis. We attach the full Spanish version as well as an English language summary. I know it's a lot of numbers and data, but it's really important as it is the only long-term data set on the marine resources of the Pacific coast of Guatemala. Our many thanks to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Columbus Zoo, the New England Aquarium, WIDECAST, USAID and See Turtle for their support for this program over the years.
Also, after years of delays thanks to various crises, including the Covid pandemic, we have finally written our Annual Report; actually, Annual ReportS, covering the years 2018 - 2021. I hope you enjoy it. Without the support of people like you around the world, we could not have met the goals that we did, so THANK YOU.
Finally, we are gearing up for Giving Tuesday, November 29th. This year we are initiating a campaign to establish a rescue center and offices in the Cerro Alux Reserve, on the outskirts of Guatemala City. We are currently housed in San Lucas in a rented house that is much too small for our needs, especially for the needs of the animals we receive. After over 3 years of searching for a suitable site, negotiating, and jumping through bureaucratic hoops (Building permits, EIAs, ect.), the local municipality ceded us a plot and we are launching our campaign to rebuild! We are really excited about this project as it will allow us to provide appropriate and humane facilities for the animals we receive in San Lucas. We receive a lot of highland animals (Foxes, hawks, owls) that need larger enclosures and flight cages for their rehabilitation, so we will be able to build them there.
If you could help us out during Giving Tuesday, that would be great. Just follow this link: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/wildlife-rescue-centre-cerro-alux/ GlobalGiving is matching any donation up to $2500, but they won’t determine the % match until the campaign is over. Any help would be much appreciated and if you could share this with your friends and family, I would appreciate it.
Thanks and happy holidays,
Collum
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