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How protecting one bird created a conservation network in Ecuador. Ornithologist Robert Ridgely’s 1997 discovery of the Jocotoco Antpitta, a species new to science, led him to found the Jocotoco Foundation a year later. buff.ly/0GwyMDm #ShareGoodNewsToo
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The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more
Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally