Editor: Jane Villa-Lobos COLOMBIAN RAIN FOREST CORRIDOR The
Natural History Museum of the Universidad del Cauca, Popayan,
Colombia, with the support of the Corporacion Biopacifico and
the Biodiversity Support Program, is conducting a program for
the establishment of a biodiversity conservation corridor
connecting the Pacific rain forests of Colombia. The project
intends to unite the Farallones de Cali National Park and
Munchique National Park, via the Naya River watershed, creating
a protected area of at least 350,000 ha. The southern part of
the corridor includes the Tambito Private Reserve, which is a
center for environmental research and protects various endemic
and endangered bird species. This initiative will assure the
conservation of a broad area of rain forest within the Choco
Biogeographic Region, which is experiencing strong pressure from
colonization, as well as from regional development projects. In
the zone to be protected, there are at least 550 species of
birds. For further information, write: