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Stretching over 160 kilometers along the coast of East Kalimantan Province, the Derawan Archipelago is among the most biologically rich and intact marine ecosystems in all of Indonesia. Maratua Island, one of Global Conservation’s focus areas, not only faces illegal fishing but also annual plastic islands washing onto its shores from the Philippines, Malaysia, and as far away as China.
With its sprawling forests and meandering rivers, Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam is a natural wonderland that beckons both adventurers and conservationists alike. Among its inhabitants are iconic species facing the threat of extinction. The Asian elephant, a symbol of strength and wisdom, roams these ancient forests, its presence a testament to the rich biodiversity of this region. However, this fragile paradise faces unprecedented threats from human activities and environmental degradation.
This is the Heart of the Maya Biosphere and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Mirador National Park, a proposed 500,000-hectare protected area, contains the largest intact primary forest and wildlife habitat in Central America with over 40 major ancient Maya cities and interconnected causeways.
There's just one place left on earth where tigers, elephants, orangutans, and rhinos live together in the wild: the Leuser Ecosystem World Heritage Site on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Murchison Falls National Park is best known for the most powerful waterfall in the world, which roars with such intensity that the ground trembles around it. But with over 70 mammal and 450 bird species, it is also a critical area for African biodiversity.
Thap Lan is Thailand’s second largest park and one of the last intact habitats for a suite of threatened and endangered species, including tigers, elephants, clouded leopards, Malayan sun bears and hornbills.
Although 60% of the world's coral reefs are seriously endangered, there are still bright spots for ocean conservation - areas where reefs are thriving. Conserving these intact reefs is becoming more important than ever. One such place is Jardines de la Reina National Park, in Cuba.
In the uneasy peace that followed the Cambodian Civil War, the Cardamom Mountains suffered rampant logging, poaching, and slash-and-burn agriculture as people struggled to find their way in this post-conflict era.
In the Heart of Borneo, there's a place whose uncharted rainforests are so secluded that it has never been permanently inhabited by humans. It’s as though it exists on a separate planet; some call it Sabah’s “Lost World”.
Imagine a deep forest where elephants crack the blood-red branches from Siamese rosewood trees, where leopards stalk gibbons through the canopy, where dragon-like mammals called pangolins rustle through the undergrowth, and where the ghosts of rhinos roam.
The 220,000-hectare Mana Pools National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, lies in the Lower Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe, part of a vast unfenced wilderness of over a million hectares where wildlife roams free.
The Amazon is one of the world’s greatest natural treasures: a vast expanse of rainforest stretching across 5.5 million sq. km, teeming with unparalleled biodiversity. One in every ten living species known to man lives here, including 40,000 plant species, 3000 fishes, 1300 birds, and more than 400 mammals.
These mountains are one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots: the richest and most threatened reservoirs of life on Earth. This park helps protect many of Georgia’s endemic plants, and a number of imperiled animal species. In the park’s core wilderness area, virgin forests host many of the park’s bear, lynx, wolf, red deer and chamois.
Palau's coral reefs are considered one of the seven Underwater Wonders of the World. They contain a menagerie of megafauna, from giant clams and manta rays to sea turtles, dugongs and fierce saltwater crocodiles that swim among hundreds of coral and sponge species.
Carpathian National Nature Park is Ukraine’s first and largest national park, and the largest protected area in the Carpathian region. The Carpathian Mountains harbor Europe's largest remaining tracts of primeval forest, and support the continent's largest montane populations of wolves, lynxes, and brown bears.
Panama’s Darién National Park is the largest protected area in Central America and the Caribbean. This Biosphere Reserve is considered the Americas’ most important “natural lung” after the Amazon. Darién is among the most species-rich ecosystems in Central America.
The Greater Belize Maya Forest is critical for the conservation of the Selva Maya, one of the world's largest remaining forests and a haven for jaguars and other threatened species.
In the 1980s in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, fish stocks were forced into a precipitous decline. When Cabo Pulmo National Park was declared in 1995, 35% was preserved as a no-fishing area. After determined action by local families, the entire park was designated a no-fishing zone.
La Amistad International Park is a transboundary protected area and World Heritage Site that is shared between Costa Rica and Panama. PILA protects a mosaic of diverse habitats and an extraordinary number of endemic species, found nowhere else on Earth.
In the southern reaches of the Central African country of Cameroon, near the borders with Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, lies a primeval rainforest called Dja. Here, Global Conservation is entering into our first GC Projects in Central Africa, where we will deploy Global Park Defense to address critical threats.
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (8,292 km2) in northern Tanzania represents one of the world’s greatest and most important reservoirs of large mammal biodiversity, and also contains one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world.
Global Conservation has deployed Global Park Defense in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, one of the Amazon’s bastions for biodiversity. Yasuni, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the last continuous tracts of virgin tropical forest in eastern Ecuador.
An oasis in the semi-desert, Kidepo Valley National Park covers 1,442 square kilometers of the spectacular Narus Valley. Dramatic mountains and rocky outcrops surround beautiful expanses of savanna and forest.
Shar Mountains is a stunning example of high elevation mountains and forests in the heart of the Balkans. It's a European biodiversity hotspot and an area with outstanding natural values in the border area of North Macedonia and Kosovo.
Turneffe is the largest atoll in the Mesoamerican Reef and the largest marine reserve in Belize. This Marine Protected Area, or MPA, is facing serious threats as the ten-year old TASA implements Global Conservation's Global Park Defense.
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Global Conservation is supporting WildAid's critical work to protect the Cocos Marine Conservation Area (ACMC), as well as developing and implementing a state-of-the-art Marine Protection System (MPS) to strengthen ACMC's monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS) capacity.
The research paper, Published by Frontiers of Science and primarily authored by Dr. Eric Dinerstein, has identified 16,825 places worldwide where focusing on conservation efforts would effectively avert the extinction of thousands of endemic species.
In Cameroon, a lucrative trade in ape skulls, bushmeat, and live animals threatens to wipe out populations that are already suffering from habitat loss and fragmentation. The EAGLE Network is addressing the problem of traffickers who drive the African trade, but its operations are hampered by extensive government corruption.
Welcome to the third installment of the War on Nature series, presented by Global Conservation. Join us as renowned conservation photojournalist Paul Hilton delves into the challenges facing the Derawan Archipelago, Indonesia, a region celebrated as the "Jewel of Indonesia."
Led by Oliver Fankem, Director of Central Africa for Global Conservation, three national parks of Cameroon covering over 1 million hectares of intact tropical forests now have continuous active patrolling and systems in place for managing 60+ rangers in Southeast Cameroon.
Global Conservation published a new Marine Protection Handbook for MPA Managers, focusing on effective protection using marine radars and rapid response teams to combat illegal fishing and wildlife poaching.
The research undertaken by Mexican ecologists Gerardo Ceballos (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and Rodolfo Dirzo (Stanford University) in Latin America and Africa has shown that the current species extinction rates in many groups of organisms are much higher than throughout the preceding two million years, according to the committee of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology.
Global Conservation conducted a Project Assessment for Marine Protection to deploy Global Park Defense and Community Protection in the North Dampier Straight MPA's.
Global Conservation has invested over eight years and millions of dollars to support the protection of Cardamoms National Park, deploying both of GC's signature programs, Global Park Defense and Community Protection.
The Bay Area’s Top Environmental Leaders to Congregate for Discussion on Global Park and Wildlife Protection, Indigenous Territories, and Marine Protection.
The event precedes the launch of the new ABC News Live Series covering Global Conservation’s Park and Wildlife Protection.
Announcing the release of the second film in our War on Nature series, "War On Nature: Sumatra". The film focuses on the recovery of the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, Indonesia, the last place on earth where tigers, elephants, orangutans, and rhinos share space.
Islas Marías Biosphere Reserve is a No-Take zone and constitutes one of Mexico’s highest priorities to protect marine ecosystems through the deployment of Global Park Defense.
Welcome to the release of our new series, "War On Nature: Uganda". The film focuses on the recovery of Murchinson Falls National Park and Kidepo Valley National Park
Global Conservation’s Executive Director and Director of South America were on mission this week to assist Podocarpus National Park to remove 1,000+ illegal miners from deep within the protected area.
Thanks to Marine Protection programs, authorities successfully arrest perpetrators connected to stealing turtle eggs and illegal fishing using fish bombs.
Thailand has proven to be one of the most skillful countries to work with to deploy Global Park Defense to achieve 'No Cut, No Kill" protection.
Led by Sabah Environmental Trust (SET), Global Conservation extend their five-year MOU with Sabah Forestry and Sabah Foundation to deploy Global Park Defense. Additionally, progress was made to build a unified national park and secure a nomination for UNESCO World Heritage status.
GC gets to share our work with global media outlets so we can spread a message of hope, goals, and achievements.
New Park and Wildlife Protection program first in Ukraine and model for entire Carpathians UNESCO World Heritage
Mana Pools National Park has the amazing success of having no poached elephants since 2019, Akashinga's all-women anti-poaching unit is supported in growth and strength of numbers while expanding into Mana Pools, and river patrols shut down crocodile poaching efforts.
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