Celebrating 31 Years of Flying for the Environment
Soaring in an airplane, the interconnectedness of the landscape unfolds. From the air you can see the way landslides from a logging road carry mud downslope to the once-shaded river, choking it with silt so that it warms and slows and cannot support the wild salmon that used to swim up it to spawn. The view from a small plane reveals misuse of protected land, like off-road vehicle damage in a designated wilderness area or illegal mining operations in a Mesoamerican forest. From above, in fact, there’s not much you can’t see.
It’s this clarity that LightHawk has been providing for partner organizations, the media, decision-makers, community members and researchers since 1979, making us the largest and oldest volunteer-based environmental aviation organization in North America. We have completed thousands of flight missions involving more than 700 flights each year for hundreds of partners throughout ten countries in North and Central America.
Our missions have addressed a broad range of issues, strengthening our partners’ efforts by offering the aerial perspective on the issues they consider critical and enabling them to gather data and documentation for their campaigns. But most of all, the view from above speaks for itself, providing breathtaking clarity of understanding.
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