A rare bird's 1997 discovery in Ecuador shaped thirty years of conservation
US ornithologist Robert Ridgely heard an unfamiliar call while climbing a forest trail in southern Ecuador in November 1997. "It had this crazy call, sounding like an owl," he recalled of the elusive jocotoco antpitta his group eventually tracked down. The find set off a chain of events in bird conservation. Thirty years later, the foundation Ridgely started to restore biodiversity has become a model that other conservation groups look to worldwide.
Dedicated reserves protect vulnerable Andean forest species and help restore biodiversity in the mountains.
Source: The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more (theguardian.com).
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