Community Resources
Educational Handbooks
Global Park Defense Handbook
Using the power of UNESCO World Heritage and national park designations, Global Conservation assists national governments and park authorities to protect land and marine reserves using the best systems, technologies, and training available. Our program, called Global Park Defense (GPD), is a multi-year method to achieve “No Cut, No Kill” protection and financial sustainability for continued preservation.
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Community Protection Handbook
This year, Global Conservation developed a deep strategy and this public handbook on GC Community Protection and Global Park Defense, which focuses on the joint protection of national parks and indigenous territories, develops integral methodology, and provides multiple case studies on GC Projects in Community Protection.
Community Protection reinforces the Global Park Defense program by expanding protection to buffer areas, which often include communal forest reserves adjacent to endangered national parks where we work. Community lands are regularly targeted by, at minimum, illegal loggers, miners, wildlife poachers, and land-clearing groups for coca plantations and new roads.
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Marine Protection Handbook
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.
Authored by Dr. Lida Teneva, a world-renowned ocean conservationist, the GC Marine Protection Handbook provides sage wisdom, case studies combined with common sense, and step-by-step objectives towards achieving real MPA Protection.
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Marine Protection Overview:
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.
Authored by Dr. Lida Teneva, a world-renown ocean conservationist, the GC Marine Protection Handbook provides sage wisdom, case studies combined with common sense, and step by step objectives towards achieving real MPA Protection.
Featured Book:
Saving the New Wild
by Jen Guyton
We created this book to show you the amazing beauty and biological importance of the global parks where we work. Please join us in our journey to save the world’s wild riches!
Impact Reports
Impact Report 2022-2023
In 2022–2023, we grew the area under Global Park Defense protection to over 24 million acres (nearly 14 million hectares), working in 16 endangered national parks and 10 marine parks in 14 countries.
Impact Report 2021-2022
In 2021–2022, Global Conservation added four new projects. We also finished three five-year Global Park Defense deployments—in Central and Southern Cardamom National Parks in Cambodia and Thap Lan National Park in Thailand—leaving each national park well protected and financially sustainable.
Impact Report 2019-2020
Looking ahead, we are kicking off the new year intensely focused on our main priority: to deploy Global Park Defense in 25 parks by 2025. Renewed funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation based on our successful work in 2018–2019 and a major grant from the Apocene Fund enables us to grow the number of UNESCO World Heritage Parks where we work. Our goal is to help protect over 20 million acres of the most intact tropical rainforests and biodiverse parks in the world in the coming decade.
Impact Report 2018
This year was a watershed for new deployments of Global Park Defense technology and systems for park and wildlife protection.
