We are featured in People Magazine in the issue including Earth Day 2010, and also in a PBS and New Hampshire Public Television Special entitled Saving Songbirds!

People Magazine selected us as one of three leading youth environmental crusaders in the United States. They photographed us while we planted white pine seedlings along the Ottauquechee River in Vermont.

The recognition is for our work to protect and reforest critical habitat for songbirds, the mission of our Bosque para Siempre project.  In June 21 of us travel to Costa Rica to continue to reforest a migratory corridor that is this winter feeding ground of birds from the Northeast and other parts of the United States, as well as essential habitat for indigenous rain forest species. After piloting Phase 2 of our Bosque para Siempre project last year, we launched the initiative this spring. Our mission is to improve the summer breeding habitat of migrating songbirds. Our partners in this work include US Fish & Wildlife, Audubon, and local conservations organizations.

Throughout the season we plan to help plant 10,000 trees in degraded wetlands, on river banks, and along forest edges to provide food and shelter during the time that the birds breed and prepare for their migration. We’ll also help stabilize riverbanks, remove invasive species, and establish riparian buffers and forest corridors.

Our Bosque para Siempre project caught the attention of a PBS producer, and after being filmed in Vermont and Costa Rica, we are featured in a documentary titled Saving Songbirds! Released this fall by New Hampshire PBS, it will go national in early 2012. Check it out here!

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