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D&R Greenway Land Trust. D&R Greenway Land Trust is central New Jersey's non-profit land preservation organization, founded in 1989 through the collaboration and vision of four organizations: the Stony Brook - Millstone Watershed Association, Friends of Princeton Open Space, Regional Planning Partnership, and the Delaware & Raritan Canal Commission. D&R Greenway permanently preserves watershed lands and large-scale landscapes, thereby preventing the loss of open space to development. Their operating region consists of over 1,500 square miles, encompassing portions of the Delaware, Raritan and Millstone River watersheds and the Delaware & Raritan Canal. This includes all of Mercer County and parts of Hunterdon, Somerset, Middlesex, Burlington and Monmouth counties. They have a staff of 6 full-time and 6 part-time professionals.

D&R Greenway Land Trust's mission is to:

• Preserve and protect a permanent network of natural lands and open spaces, creating the conditions for a healthy and diverse environment to flourish
• Provide the public with appropriate access to these areas, encouraging active lifestyles and a greater appreciation of the natural world
• Inspire a conservation ethic promoting policies, educational programs and partnerships that result in a public commitment to land preservatio

Since 1989, D&R Greenway Land Trust has preserved 8,633.47 acres of land valued at over $179 million. They have preserved 153 different properties and serve as the continuing steward of 35 preserves and 46 conservation easements.

Rainforest2Reef and D&R Greenway partnered in recognition of their shared objective to protect both summer and winter habitats for over 100 species of neo-tropical migratory birds which depend on both geographical areas for their species' survival.

Specifically, there are some 65 neo-tropical migratory birds that winter in the Selva Maya, that use the Sourland mountains as their breeding habitat.  A successful partnership will have broad potential impact as an international model for land preservation, education and stewardship that can be replicated by the 1,400 land trusts that currently exist in the U.S.  Our initial project is to collaborate on funding and building a biological research station in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico that will support data collection on neotropical migrant birds.

The Global Heritage Fund. The Global Heritage Fund's mission is to enable successful long-term preservation of mankind's most important and imperiled Global Heritage cultural sites in developing countries with acute pressures and without resources for preservation and planned development. GHF is partnering with Rainforest2Reef to help preserve the archeological and biodiverse wealth of the Selva Maya. GHF is working on saving the archeological sites in Mirador Basin in Guatemala, an area adjacent to the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve just across the border in Guatemala. Rainforest2Reef and GHF are pursuing a strategy of cross border cooperation. The Global Heritage Fund is a private, California non-profit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.globalheritagefund.org