Dear fellow ecologists, I am writing to ask your help in promoting a unique tourism project that directly supports endangered species conservation in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia. I am a co-director of this project, which is a collaboration of the Bolivian National Park system and local indigenous communities. The project's goal is to conserve local turtle populations of Podocnemis expansa (giant Amazon river turtle) and P. unifilis (yellow spotted South American river turtle).
We are promoting and selling this tourism package through the nonprofit SELVA International. This is the first year of the tourism project, and we need help promoting it. The tour package is a bit costly, but it is a highly specialized and personal tour that is competitive with similar length tours. Unlike most tours, most of the cost of the package directly funds turtle conservation and goes to local communities (i.e, most of the tour price is also tax deductible). For more information please visit our website at http://selvainternational.org/travel.htm. I would be happy to email you our brochure if you are interested. If you find this to be a worthy cause, please help us by sharing with your family, friends, colleagues, and other professional arenas. Thank you much. Sincerely, Alison Lipman
