Wetlands Conservation

The Santa Fe Women's Group is dedicated to protecting the Santa Fe Wetlands. The Women's Group has worked with Alianzas, an environmental group of the Norwegian government, to learn the importance of wetlands and the laws that aim to protect them. All of these efforts in the short term will prepare local people, the Santa Fe Women's Group, to be the stewards of their own natural treasure in the long term. These efforts will also help ensure that the Santa Fe Wetlands, which are now in private hands, will be recognized as wetlands and will get all of the protection of the law that comes with this distinction.

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Since becoming an affiliate organization of Alianzas, the Santa Fe Women's group has been active in creating activities and projects that support the theme of wetlands appreciation and conservation. On February 2nd, 2006, the Santa Fe Women's Group organized its first event to observe International Wetlands Day. The Women's Group invited several scientists from environmental organizations to come to do a tour of the Santa Fe Wetlands and to do the initial studies of the area that are necessary to have the Santa Fe Wetlands officially recognized (and protected) as wetlands. After doing the tour, the scientists spoke with the community about the importance of wetlands and the projects that the Santa Fe Women's Group will be carrying out in the future to protect this important part of the Rio Frio Basin. One of these projects is the Wetlands Reforestation project that the Women's Group starting in July of 2006. In this project the Women's Group will be continually planting trees to help assuage the effects of decades of deforestation in the area. ( Learn more about the wetlands reforestation project)

Another Women's Group project that is in a similar spirit, is its rural tourism project. In order to fully enjoy the wetlands and to make protecting them possible, the Women's Group is starting a rural tourism business that will allow people to see the Santa Fe Wetlands and all of its beautiful landscapes, as well as all of its extensive flora and fauna, in a responsible, non-instrusive way. If you want to see all of the activities in which you can partake in Santa Fe, click here to go to the rural tourism page, or , click here if you want to learn more about the Santa Fe Wetlands Boat Tour.

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