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Entries for September 2012

WCS Conservationist Honored by IUCN

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WCS Conservationist Honored by IUCN
(September 20, 2012) Oscar Loayza receives the Kenton Miller Award for 2012 Loayza is the Sub Director of WCS’s Greater Madidi-Tambopata Landscape Conservation Program JEJU, REPUBLIC OF KOREA (Sept. 12) — Oscar Loayza of WCS’s Madidi Program in Bolivia has received the Kenton Miller Award for Innovation in Protected Areas Management at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, Republic of Korea from Sept. 6-15. Loayza, the Sub Director of the WCS Greater Madidi-Tambopata Landscape Conserv...

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Inauguration of the dry processing coffee plant of the Regional Association of Organic Coffee Producers of Larecaja (APCERL)

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Inauguration of the dry processing coffee plant of the Regional Association of Organic Coffee Producers of Larecaja (APCERL)
(September 03, 2012) In a ceremony held on August 23, the Regional Association of Organic Coffee Producers of Larecaja (APCERL), inaugurated its new dry processing coffee plant, as part of the activities of the project “Consolidating a model of integral and sustainable development of the coffee chain in Northern Tropical La Paz”, financed by USAID and executed with technical support of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The plant has been built in the pieces of land owned by the association, in the in...

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