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Help Protect Afghanistan's Environmental Defenders
Environmentalists & their families across Afghanistan are in danger. Among them are some of the first-ever Afghanistan National Park rangers, the first female border guides, the first mountain guides and many collaborators of the Afghan National Environmental Protection Agency.

These men and women have risked their lives, and the lives of their families, to be able to work on these conservation projects in collaboration with international organizations, including many based in the U.S. Some of their work has contributed to creating and sustaining the first National Park in Afghanistan; promoting the appreciation of and the sustainable use of natural resources; cleaning up hazardous wastes and protecting human health; and conserving wildlife and biodiversity in the region – including culturally important species like snow leopards and Marco Polo sheep.

Now, their lives are at risk from the Taliban due to their collaboration with international organizations. We plan to help evacuate and support Afghan men, women, and children through this fundraising effort to recognize and stand in solidarity with the environmental contributions they have made.

We need your help to safely evacuate and support Afghan environmentalists. Your donation will help us protect conservationists and their families through providing funding for:

The immediate extraction for those at significant risk

Support for families during Visa processing (estimated to take about 12-15 months)

Humanitarian support as needed

This fundraising effort is being led by Conservation X Labs, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to prevent extinction. Their CEO & Co-Founder Alex Dehgan, was the founding country director of the Wildlife Conservation Society Afghanistan Program and helped create Afghanistan’s first national park. This effort is being supported by a number of collaborating organizations aiming to help current and former Afghan colleagues who are now at risk. 100% of the funds will go to the Afghan environmentalists and their families, guided by an international group of conservation experts who have worked on the ground in Afghanistan. CXL will keep the funds in a separate account.

Thank you for joining us to help protect environmentalists in Afghanistan. We will provide updates to this campaign as it progresses.
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Protecting Afghan Environmental Defenders Part 2
A group of Afghan conservation scientists, environmental defenders, and their families is in the process of relocating from Afghanistan to Mexico with the help of an international network, and today they need our help to get settled in Mexico for an undetermined length of time. Nineteen Afghans (including children) have traveled as of the launch of this GoFundme, with potentially more in process. They are enduring very serious hardships and trauma from leaving their homes and belongings behind to running life-threatening conditions and everything in-between, and your help is crucial to secure their immediate future.

With the support from pro bono lawyers in New York City, we have filed for US Humanitarian Parole for many of them in the hope they could quickly move to the US. However, due to a mid-way change in policy, we fear those paroles will be denied, leaving the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) Afghan Priority Two designation (P-2) as the only avenue to access the US as a refugee. However, according to US State Department sources, this process could take as long as 2 years. During this time, while in Mexico on a humanitarian visa, our Afghan friends and colleagues cannot work, send their children to public schools or have access to public health care. In other words, they have no means to support themselves unless they choose to pursue US-Mexico political asylum avenues.

We are a group of scientists and conservationists led by Conservation X Labs (CXL), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and others, who have organized to help the group travel and stay in Mexico for as long as needed to process the US refugee avenues. We are committed to not leaving any of our colleagues behind and are grateful to all who have provided or can provide funding through the GoFundme campaign and to the foundations that stepped up to support our efforts and those of other environmentalists. All funding is maintained in a separate bank account, and CXL, UNAM, and the entire support group is committed to seeing 100% being used only for the Afghan environmental defenders. We continue to get new requests for assistance. Thanks for your support. This GoFundme will focus on those Afghans currently in Mexico or in the process of traveling to Mexico.

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About Conservation X Labs, Inc.

Our mission is to prevent the 6th mass extinction by leveraging technology and innovation.

1066 31st St NWWashington, DC 20007

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Causes

Climate change, Natural resources, Biodiversity, Communicable disease control, Environmental health, Biotechnology, Computer science, Nanotechnology, Robotics, Mechanical engineering, Biology, Endangered species protection

Established

2015

Tax ID

47-4066524

NTEE code

Protection of Endangered Species

Conservation X Labs, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 47-4066524. Donations are tax-deductible. Select content is provided by GuideStar.

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