14 DAY TRIAL // News from Guatemala says that the country's high officials have recently agreed to designate a new protected area that will serve to safeguard several bird and amphibian species.
According to Mongabay, Guatemala's brand-new protected area has been established around the Sierra Caral Amphibian Conservation Reserve, which was granted legal protection back in 2012.
The recently designated reserve spans over a 19,000-hectare (approximately 47,000 acres) area and is home to about 118 reptiles and amphibian species, and well over 120 types of birds, the same source details.
Of these animals, about 10 amphibian and 2 bird species are already in danger of falling off the biodiversity map due to rapid deforestation. Hopefully, the creation of the reserve will keep this from happening.
“We have been working to obtain the legal declaration of this new protected area for more than seven years,” Marco Cerezo with local conservation organization FUNDAECO has said in a statement.
“This new protected area brings us a step closer toward our dream, which is the conservation of key stop-over and wintering habitats for migratory birds along their flyway across Caribbean Guatemala,” he adds.
Interestingly enough, this new wildlife reserve in Guatemala is the first established by the country's Congress since 2005 until present day.