GC now aims to battle illegal activities in Amboró, which has been losing forest cover to illicit activities such as the cultivation of coca crops for the production of cocaine and illegal land clearing by surrounding populations and outsiders

Margoth Quispy, the GC Director for South America, is spearheading a vital initiative in Peru's capital, Lima. A Memorandum of Understanding was inked with the Peruvian Air Force General to oversee the preservation of four national parks and nine Indigenous Communities. Over 1.2 million acres combined are now protected by Global Park Defense and Community Protection.

Global Conservation signed its first MoU with the Maluku Fish and Marine Department to kick off a new joint GC Marine Protection program and EarthRanger deployment for the Maluku Islands in the Banda Sea of Indonesia. GC organized and supported the first Joint Patrols in the Banda Seas using the EarthRanger platform for marine protection.

In this episode of War on Nature, conservation photojournalist Paul Hilton travels deep into the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, Indonesia, to witness the devastating impact of palm oil expansion on one of the last truly wild places on Earth.

Global Conservation Combined Deployments of EarthRanger in GC Projects are now the Largest Network of Park Protection Systems outside Africa—from Mexico to Panama, Peru to Indonesia.

Protecting endangered national parks in developing countries will save the last fragments of tropical wilderness and the highest concentration of biodiversity outside the Amazon and Congo basins.

Costa Rica is at the center of the booming global cocaine business. It has an integral role as a transshipment point to consumer markets in the United States and Europe, and local transport networks are a crucial part of that trafficking chain.

But as cocaine trafficking oozes into other criminal economies like illegal mining inside Corcovado, it’s become increasingly complicated for the park rangers to protect its natural resources amid a lack of resources and operational support.

The AALF Project (Support to Wildlife Law Enforcement) has been implemented by Conservation Justice since 2010 through a partnership with the Ministry of Water and Forests. This report presents the outcomes of a year-long fight against wildlife trafficking carried out throughout Gabon.

Global Conservation has received critical funding from the Alumbra Foundation to support National Park and Community Protection of the Naso Indigenous Territory, the largest legally established Indigenous Comarca in Panama (160,616 hectares).

The Naso have organized a 60-member Community Protection team responsible for demarcating, monitoring, and patrolling their territory.

Indigenous peoples are, and have always been, a significant answer to the entire climate change problem, as their traditional practices promote biodiversity, enhance carbon sequestration, and maintain ecosystem resilience against climate impacts.

Global Conservation’s Indigenous partnership initiative is leading our Community Protection program that effectively prevents illegal logging, poaching, and land grabbing.