Fiesta for Conservation at Willistown Friends Meeting
What is Fiesta for Conservation at Willistown Friends Meeting
Fiesta for Conservation at Willistown Friends Meeting is a fundraising party organized by a small group of concerned citizens to help conserve biodiversity and cultural diversity in the most biodiverse and threatened regions of tropical Latin America. We are raising funds for the Amazon Conservation Team,(https://www.amazonteam.org/), a highly effective, top rated and innovative conservation organization.
Willistown Friends Meeting is graciously providing us use of their beautiful, historic meeting house to help to conduct our inaugural Fiesta for Conservation at Willistown Friends Meeting
- Delicious Latin inspired buffet dinner, drinks and music and guaranteed FUN!
- Intimate, intriguing talk by Conservation Heroes, Dr. Mark Plotkin and Liliana Madrigal
- Willistown Friends Meeting, 7069 Goshen Rd, Newtown Square, PA 19073
- 6-9:30pm on Saturday, October 4th, 2025
Why is the work of Amazon Conservation Team so important?
What does ACT do?
ACT works with many different partner communities through much of Latin America, on diverse projects to protect tropical rainforests, support cultural revitalization, and expand indigenous self-determination. Together they co-create methods that center each community’s unique priorities, challenges, and worldview. This dynamic approach produces holistic impacts that often resist distillation into quantitative metrics. However, the following figures quantify a sampling of ACT’s multi-dimensional impact.
- 29 Years in existence
- 3.2 million acres of Indigenous reserve expansions and creations
- 12.7 million acres under improved sustainable management
- 11 community ranger and park guard posts constructed
- Over 80 million acres mapped of partners' territories & protected areas
- https://youtu.be/E7vdCeKkBd0?t=58
- ACT link https://www.amazonteam.org/
Where does ACT work?
Currently, ACT has been active in:
- Colombia
- Suriname
- Brazil
- Peru
- Guyana
- Costa Rica
Who started ACT?
ACT was founded by the renowned American ethnobotanist, Dr. Mark Plotkin and his wife Liliana Madrigal, a respected conservationist originally from Costa Rica. They are our guest speakers.
Here are TedTalks highlighting some of their work:
- Dr. Mark Plotkin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJ20tt5nPQ
- Liliana Madrigal: https://youtu.be/_mPFI6nMN2M?t=11 (in Spanish)
Celebrity endorsements of ACT
- Jeff Bridges https://www.youtube.com/embed/V9dCwbGkLj4"
- Lisa Ling https://youtu.be/2PIb9qWrLmo
Contact Us
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Buy Fiesta Tickets
Admission for one person to our Fiesta for Conservation at Willistown Friends Meeting:
Cost: $100 minimum donation,
($50 for children 12 and under)
To reserve your tickets and RSVP please email us with your name and cellphone number and let us know how many people are in your group. You can pay with a check at the event.
If you wish to pay by credit card, please email your credit card info, including your name (as it appears on your card), CC number, expiration date, and security code, the number of tickets you are paying for and the payment amount. Credit cards will NOTbe processed until AFTER the event. This information will be kept strictly confidential and will not be shared with anyone besides the Amazon Conservation Team. If you decide to pay by check, you can do so at the Fiesta, and your credit card payment will be canceled.
Send all emails to CarlosJimenezDVM@gmail.com.
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