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Women can save the environment by looking to them

Women can save the environment by looking to them

Sara Inés Lara, leader of Colombia-based bird conservation organization Fundación ProAves, got her first taste of conservation’s potential more than 30 years ago. She was raised in Colombia. One of the most biodiverse locations in the worldShe fled to the mountains, forests, and pools of the Andes for refuge. In 1998, she discovered about the yellow-eared Parrot.

It was once a common bird in her hometown and throughout the Colombian Andes. However, its population has plummeted to just 81 individuals. She was so moved by the fate of the bird that she quit her job as a civil engineer to start ProAves to help it.

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