Para La Tierra

Casa
Paraguay
Pilar
Para La Tierra

Conservation NGO working to protect threatened habitats in Paraguay 🌱💚 Where we work:

We’re based in Pilar in the Neembucu Department. .

Promoting sustainable tourism:

Para La Tierra promotes Paraguay internationally as an ideal destination for ‘sustainable social tourism’. This new approach to tourism encourages visitors to contribute towards existing social, scientific and conservation projects that are designed to have a positive impact on the country. Our objectives:

Our main aim is to help to protect these globally endangere

d habitats and their inhabitants. We do this by a variety of methods including recruiting volunteers to help and working with the local community. Take part:

We offer a variety of experiences where volunteers can take part in any of our projects. As a volunteer, you can even have a go at all of our projects. Our flexible induction program will give you a taste of everything that’s going on, so you can decide what you like best. If you’re still studying, or just finished, we can help you gain valuable experience to help you on your career path. As an intern, you can design your own project, which we will help you to do in advance, based on your own personal research interests.

13/06/2026

🎨 Meet the mural that was made by a community, for a community.

As part of our collaboration with Birkbeck, University of London, intern Anne worked with Paraguayan artist Lucero and fellow intern Elora to bring this incredible piece to life at the Mberu Pirapo’i Mbya Guarani school.

Where did Annes amazing design come from? The children themselves. 🧒✏️

We started by asking the kids to draw what mattered most to them — their community, and their dream of an ideal place to live. Their answers said everything: their school, their church (or Opy), forests filled with wildlife, and the yerba mate we’ve been planting together since 2023. 🌿

Every element in this mural came straight from their imaginations.

Thank you to Anne, Lucero, and Elora for turning those drawings into something that will last. What a gift to Mberu Pirapo’i. 💚

05/06/2026

🌿Today is World Environment Day — and what a day to share this exciting news.

Our 2026 planting season is complete! Over just six weeks in April and May, we put 30,000 saplings in the ground with two of our Mbya Guaraní partner communities in our reforestation programme.

In Mberu Pirapo’i there are now 25 families taking part — and this season we welcomed a second community, Potrero Guaraní, with 14 families already on board.

The saplings are a mix of native Atlantic Forest species and yerba mate — a cash crop endemic to the region that gives families a sustainable income while the forest grows back.

Every tree planted is habitat restored for the hooded capuchin monkey, and a step toward sustainable livelihoods for the families. 🐒🌱

23/05/2026

Winter seems to have arrived early in Paraguay. Don’t let the sunshine fool you, it was 6C this morning! 🥶🥶 that didn’t stop our you g conservation heroes of the ecoclub who headed out to the river anyway!! 💪🏼💪🏼

19/05/2026

Update!! Past intern Olivia recent presented the results of her internship project as a part of the Spring Presentation Symposium at Oregon State University. This symposium is an opportunity for undergraduates to present research, scholarship and creative projects to the university and community. Olivia presented on a part of her research at PLT that focused on artificial pipe refugia occupancy across our field site in the Ñeembucu Wetland Complex and looking at preferences across different pipe widths and lengths.

Congratulations Olivia! Great work!!

15/05/2026

This lets meet Joa! Joa has come to PLT from HAS Green Academy for an internship. For the next 3 months he is conducting research using pitfalls and transects to compare their effectiveness in measuring the richness, abundance and community composition of the amphibian community in the Ñeembucu wetlands. He is using 4 pitfall trap lines and 8 transects representing the entire habitat at Yegros Pasos.

08/05/2026

It’s and it’s time to meet Lila ! Lila is studying urban populations of black-and-gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) in Pilar, Paraguay, to understand how human disturbance influences where these primates choose to rest and sleep. Her project is titled “ Impact of anthropogenic disturbance on resting and sleeping site selection in black and gold howler monkeys in Pilar, Paraguay”.

As cities expand, natural habitats become fragmented, forcing wildlife to adapt to life alongside humans. Despite living in urban environments, howler monkeys still face ecological trade-offs when selecting safe and suitable sites.

To investigate this, Lila follows three groups of howlers exposed to different levels of human disturbance. Each day, she observes the monkeys from early morning to sunset, recording their behaviour, identifying the trees they choose to nap in during the day and sleep in at night. For each site, she measures key ecological variables such as tree height, canopy connectivity, distance to food resources, and proximity to roads, human activity, etc…

By combining behavioural observations with habitat data, Lila aims to understand how howler monkeys choose resting and sleeping sites by balancing safety, parasites, temperature, food, and human disturbance.

This research will hopefully help us understand better how primates adapt to human-altered ecosystems and provides valuable insights for urban wildlife conservation in the future 🌴🐒

13/04/2026

Exciting news! We are launching an ‘in-house journal’ for our internship programme! As part of your internship you will write up your results following the Instructions For Authors guidelines and submit for publication in our journal. For our first issue we are looking for previous interns who would like to contribute their results to this project. It doesn’t matter if you finished your internship last month or back in 2010 we would love to have your submissions! An issue will be published every four months. If you wish to participate in this first issue please email Dr. Becca Smith at [email protected] before the 1st of May.

We are not applying for an ISSN number and this is just to share your results with other interns and the Pilar community and will not impact your ability to submit your results for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

Dirección

Mariscal Estigarribia 321 C/Teniente Capuro
Pilar
2800

Página web

http://www.paralatierra.org/, https://linktr.ee/paralatierra

Notificaciones

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