Welcome
Natura International is dedicated to conserving rainforests and habitat in Latin America through bottom-up efforts led by local initiatives. We work with communities and governments, particularly at the state and regional level, to conserve land, protect watersheds and ecosystem services, and promote sustainable livelihoods in local communities linked to those efforts.
Our work seeks to preserve large areas of high conservation value that protect threatened species and ecosystems. Currently our efforts focus on Argentina, where our local staff seeks to create or assist the creation of several major protected areas described on this site.
Through this work, we aim to contribute to a world where the diversity of life thrives, and people act in balance with nature.
Please join us!
Byron Swift
President
Argentina
In Argentina, Natura International is composed of a team of professionals based in the city of Córdoba, in Córdoba province. Natura Argentina is focusing its work on the creation of major protected areas in several regions:
- We are working with the province of Salta to conserve over a million acres of Chaco forests, cloud forests, and puna grasslands with charismatic species;
- The Sierra of Famatina, an area of spectacularly beautiful Andean ecosystems in La Rioja province, with a potential size of 225,000 acres;
- The Ansenuza lake (Mar Chiquita) and associated wetlands, which harbors extraordinary concentrations of water birds and aquatic resources, with a potential size of over 1 million acres.
Our ethic is one of bottom-up conservation that emphasizes:
- intense work with local communities;
- interactions with authorities and organizations at local and national levels; and
- conducting the scientific fieldwork to support our conservation programs.
In Argentina Natura also works on identifying the biological values of wildlands and roadless areas as a basis for protecting key ecosystems, and works closely with other conservation groups, including Aves Argentinas in its effort to support the government in creating the Traslasierras and Ansenuza protected areas in Cordoba.
