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Dear Friend,
A global freshwater crisis is looming. People and animals in developing countries are already struggling with the impacts of unchecked pollution, freshwater habitat destruction, and drought caused by climate change.
CI is combating these threats to freshwater. And you can help.
My name is David Emmett, Regional Director of Conservation International’s Greater Mekong Program in Cambodia where freshwater is an important focus of our work. Please make a gift to support CI’s efforts safeguarding freshwater, and the wildlife and people it supports.
For a short time, loyal Conservation International donors and members will match your gift dollar-for-dollar.
Your gift will support our efforts:
- Working with governments—like we’re doing in Cambodia—to establish fish sanctuaries and community fisheries that protect freshwater ecosystems from pollution and overfishing, and provide long-term sustainable food sources for local people.
- Protecting animals like the fishing cat and the hairy-nosed otter—the world's rarest otter species—from freshwater habitat destruction. Thought to be extinct until very recently, the hairy-nosed otter lives in just a handful of rivers and lakes in Asia.
- CI and Cambodia’s Fishery Administration are working together to significantly extend a fish sanctuary in the Tonle Sap Lake to include large tracts of seasonally flooded forest—the location of probably the most productive fishery in the world and a vital habitat for otters, crocodiles, and waterbirds.
- Providing incentives to local communities in exchange for protecting freshwater resources. CI is offering financial and quality of life benefits to communities across Cambodia and China including those who live around the Yujiashan Nature Reserve, which protects essential panda habitat while also supplying thousands of people with their only source of drinking water.
Water supports all life on earth—from freshwater otters, to people living near China’s Lashi Lake, to your local community.
We simply cannot take fresh water for granted.
Please make a gift of support—that will be matched dollar-for-dollar—to ensure CI can continue to protect the most threatened freshwater ecosystems in the world.
Sincerely,
David Emmett
Regional Director, Greater Mekong Program in Cambodia
Photo credits:
© CI/photo by Sitha Som
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