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What we support

CAYAYA BIRDING currently supports the following activities:

• Christmas Bird Counts in Tikal, at Atitlan Volcano, and in Antigua Guatemala - organization, funding support, and data compilation of three Audubon Christmas Bird Counts since 2006.
• Consultant for local birding tourism. Advised y Cayaya Birding, Los Tarrales Reserve and Chelemhá Cloud Forest Reserve developed as world-class birding destinations.
• Publicity for Guatemalan birding destinations. Cayaya Birding has developed several web sites to promote birding, incluyding www.tarrales.com, www.chelemha.org, www.reservapatrocinio.com
• PROEVAL-RAXMU Bird Monitoring Program, funding support for monthly bird counts in Alta Verapaz and for scientific publications.
• Support for the Ornithological Society of Guatemala (Sociedad Guatemalteca de Ornitología) - we developed and we are sponsoring the web site of the Ornithological Society of Guatemala, and support the creation of an ornithological library.
• Sustainable tourism in the Yalijux mountain range. We support the local Guatemalan NGO UPROBON by helping to develop a sustainable tourism program in this cloud forest area. For more information visit the Chelemhá web site at www.chelemha.org
• Local nature guides in the Chelemhá cloud forest reserve. We helped three community members in 2003 to became nature guides, in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde, Germany, and the Chelemhá Cloud Forest Reserve.
• Local birding guides in the Los Tarrales Reserve. We helped several community member to become specialized birding guides, in collaboration with the Los Tarrales Reserve. For more information about Los Tarrales visit www.tarrales.com
• Public education:
• We publish in international and national media on birds and bird conservation in Guatemala, for instance an Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Guatemala (Lynx Edicions, 2007), on the Guatemalan IBAs in the German birding journal Falke and in the birding journal of the Neotropical Bird Club Neotropical Birding, and in the Sep/Oct 2007 issue of Winging It, newsletter of the American Birding Association. The Christmas Bird Counts were covered in the Guatemalan press.
• We supported the First and Second International Birdwatching Encounter in Guatemala in 2005 and 2006.
• Third International Birdwatching Encounter in Guatemala in 2007.
• We support the information program of the Biodiversity Institute through contribution of photographs, see www.bdi.org.