A Serbian bird-watching group used crowdfunding to buy and protect Nightingale’s Forest, a small woodland that had been at risk of being sold for timber.
A bird-watching group in Serbia raised enough money through crowdfunding to buy a five-acre woodland known as Nightingale’s Forest.
The land had been at risk of being sold for timber. Instead, it will now be preserved as a living refuge for birds, animals and plants.
This is not a huge piece of land. That is exactly why it matters. A small forest, saved by ordinary people, is a reminder that conservation does not always begin with governments or giant foundations. Sometimes it begins with people who simply refuse to let one green place disappear.
Source: AP News