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A new 122-ha land purchase has connected Colombian cloudforests that are home to one of the world s rarest birds, Antioquia Brushfinch.
The expansion of the Guanacas Reserve in the Colombian Andes was backed by the World Land Trust s (WLT) Action Fund supporters and made possible by the foresight, knowledge and hard work WLT partner, Fundación Guanacas Bosques de Niebla. As a result, the reserve is expanded to 687 ha – the size of Gibraltar.
The reserve extension brings a major reprieve to a wealth of endangered life, none more so than the endemic Antioquia Brushfinch. First identified from three museum specimens in 1971, it wasn t seen alive in the wild until 2018. Lying on the edge of extinction, its population is thought to number fewer than 50 individuals, restricted entirely to a tiny area of north-western Colombia.