Acknowledgements

REGUA’s success to date has been due to the help and financial support of a wide range of individuals, charitable organisations and commercial sponsors, to whom we extend our grateful thanks. Some of these supporters are listed below, but we would also like to record our thanks to the highly committed staff at REGUA and to the many visitors that have been so generous with their advice, donations and field records.

The website has been designed by Tom Feltwell and Lee Dingain, and we would also like to thank Lee Dingain, John Feltwell, John Harris, Tasso Leventis, Nicholas Locke, Alan Martin, Ben Michaud, Thor Østbye, Eleonora Pacheco, Andrew Proudfoot, Caterina Torroni, John Willsher, Sam Woods and Rachel Walls for the photographs. These images are copyrighted and watermarked and are not for downloading for any commercial purposes.

The principle donors whose financial help and support have been critical over the last few years of rapid growth are as follows

A P Leventis Conservation Foundation
Associação Mico Leão Dourado (AMLD)
Birdlife International
British American Tobacco PLC
Centro de Primatologia do Rio de Janeiro
Conservation International - Brazil
Instituto BIOMAS
Instituto Estadual de Florestas (IEF)
Instituto IBIO
Ministerio de Meio Ambiente - Brasil
Secretaria de Educação do Municipio de Cachoeiras de Macacu - RJ
Secretaria de Meio Ambiente de Cachoeiras de Macacu - RJ
The Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Trust (BART)
The Bromley Trust
The Eden Project
The Millichope Foundation
The Rufford Foundation
The Wetland Trust
The World Land Trust
Universidade Estadual Norte Fluminense - UENF
Universidade do Estado Rio de Janeiro - UERJ
Universidade Estadual Serra do Orgãos - FESO

The World Land Trust was one of the founder supporters of REGUA and is now a partner organisation responsible for public fundraising in the UK.

We would also like to thank Kay Optical, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the American Birding Association for their donations of optical equipment in support of our environmental education programme.