ARTAIR PHOTOGRAPHY &
A COMMUNITY OF CONSERVATION
Hoja Nueva is a strategic conservation organization confronting the multifaceted threats to the biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon.
We preserve Amazonian ecosystems by protecting over 3,000 hectares of primary rainforest, combating wildlife trafficking, rescuing and rewilding key species, and running a first-of-its-kind ecological research station and education center. Hoja Nueva maintains its U.S. headquarters in Washington State with its field operations, rehabilitation facilities, and research center in the Madre de Dios region of the Peruvian Amazon.
Through our Peruvian NGO, we employ a multi-tiered strategy to address both the causes and the effects of short-term and long-term conservation concerns which threaten the astonishing biodiversity of the Las Piedras region of Madre de Dios, Peru, a little-known but massively important area of the Peruvian Amazon.
Our goal is to implement strategic actions in the short-term to protect threatened wildlife and forests from immediate destruction while simultaneously designing initiatives for long-term conservation.
These initiatives are focused on empowering and educating local communities, integrating local government and non-profit organizations into a collaborative conservation effort to protect the most vulnerable populations and habitats, and performing rigorous and novel scientific research to best inform conservation planning and management strategies."
The Katie Adamson Conservation Fund (KACF) is a community-based conservation organization based in the Denver, Colorado area. The fund was established as a non-profit in 2014 by Denver zookeeper Dave Johnson and is dedicated to a global mission of wildlife protection and cultural compassion and is active in over 23 countries worldwide.
As a powerful group of all ages and mindsets, we want to leave this world a better place for those that follow. The species we share this planet with deserve protection and dedication, and together we are doing everything we can to ensure they have a place and a voice. By working together we can ensure that our fellow creatures have a community that cherishes them and protects them. We travel and educate to create change. We empower and embolden. We are an organization of people who help animals by helping people. It is our conservation imperative.
Polar bears, Jaguars, Orangutans, Elephants, Wolves, Penguins, Gorillas, Sea Turtles, Tigers, Giant Pandas, Orcas, and Rhinos are just a handful of the species we work with. Join us as we teach at schools, build beehive fences to protect communities and gardens from elephants, train people how to sustain themselves without poaching wildlife, set up speaker presentations and create fundraisers, climb mountains and run races. There is no insignificant species and no journey too far to travel.
Help us to spread this conservation karma from shore to peak. We are more powerful when our voices echo together.
The KACF writes children's books about animals and conservation that we use to educate, excite and motivate kids of all ages to help preserve our ecosystems.
Our non-profit initiative leverages citizen science and researcher observations to construct a comprehensive database focusing on the distinctive identities of individual jaguars inhabiting the Northern Pantanal region within the Encontro das Águas Park.
The Pantanal stands as the global epicenter not only for hosting the densest jaguar population but also for nurturing the most habituated jaguars. This characteristic makes it an unparalleled site for witnessing wild jaguars thriving in their natural environment.
With these jaguars adapting to human presence, we've had the opportunity to observe and document various individuals' behaviors. Since the early 2000s, we've been cataloging jaguars in this area, utilizing their spot patterns in a similar way to how humans use fingerprinting techniques.
By harnessing facial, left, and right profile photographs, primarily contributed by tourists, we've successfully distinguished dozens of individual jaguars. This process has culminated in the creation of the Jaguar Guide, offering an extensive inventory of insights into individual key identifiers, behaviors, lineages, relationships, home ranges, and movement patterns.
Our approach is distinctive and entirely non-intrusive, ensuring minimal disturbance to these magnificent felines.
The Ballot Measure:
We are bringing the issue of trophy hunting and trapping of Colorado wild cats to the voters via a ballot measure, which is legal and granted to our state’s citizens to use as a last resort when systems fail to act in the best interests of the majority of Coloradans and their values. But we need your help!
Wildlife is a public trust and a privilege, not an entitlement, and Colorado is fortunate to be a state where citizens may have a voice through the ballot initiative process to correct course.
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The Problem:
Coloradans have tried many times over to reason with policymakers.
A bill in the state Legislature that would have banned these unethical practices died without debate after key lawmakers were hit by 20,000 emails in one day from outside big-money trophy hunting organizations like Safari Club International and outfitters who can make $8,000 off of guaranteed lion kills in our state. Organized opposition boasted how they had deployed expensive new technology to get past spam filters, and influence our government with email blasts from people who don’t even live in Colorado.
Colorado citizens who signed a petition of 208,000 signatures to end bobcat trapping in Colorado were dismissed by wildlife commissioners, a politically appointed body, despite the fact there are just 700 trappers in the state and 5.8 million Coloradans. Opposition was led by Safari Club International.
Your average Coloradan is powerless to speak out against the unethical current practice of killing of lactating female lions and predators that haven’t been in conflict with anyone, especially mature adult cats living peacefully, as well as bobcats without limit.
Even worse, policymakers pretend that the three decades of peer-reviewed science to show trophy hunting has negative consequences doesn’t exist.
Meanwhile, there is no proven need to trophy hunt and trap wild cats, and zero science to support it.
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The Solution:
Colorado voters can ban trophy hunting and trapping of wild cats.
CATs is a conglomeration of hunters and nonhunters, asking Colorado voters to end trophy hunting mountain lions and trapping bobcats with bait, unfair high-tech gadgetry and dogs, because these activities also do not align with Colorado values.
Trophy hunting and trapping wild cats creates orphans who will starve to death. Peer-reviewed science shows these activities increase risk of human-lion conflict, artificially lower population ages, and cause social chaos among lions. See our Science page for these studies. If anyone tells you trophy hunting mountain lions exists for any other reason than fun, make them show you that science, because it doesn’t exist. Same for trapping bobcats, which is to make money off their fur. These are solely values-based choices.
When the system consistently fails to consider broader public values, such as integrity of science, ethics in hunting, fair chase, unjustifiable stress and pain to undeserving animals including dogs, or acknowledge the best, peer-reviewed, existing science that shows trophy hunting negatively affects populations and natural behavior, putting our pets and ranch animals at risk, it’s time to go to the voters. And this is what our state allows.
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