
GC Supports Rainforest Action Network in Fight Against Conflict Palm Oil
GC funding is helping to fight conflict palm oil that's destroying the Leuser Ecosystem, Indonesia.
read moreWorld Ranger Day celebrates the contributions and sacrifice made by park rangers to protect national parks, wildlife and natural heritage for the benefit of all mankind.
Nearly 1,000 rangers have lost their lives on the frontlines of global conservation in gun battles with poachers and organized crime groups over the past ten years.
Global Conservation is supporting rangers in our projects from Guatemala to Thailand and Indonesia including life insurance, communications systems, trauma kits, surveillance and firepower to ensure rangers patrols are safer and better prepared.
It is important that rangers’ work is recognized and valued by society and our support improves the motivation and status of park rangers risking their lives on the frontline.
Park Rangers are increasingly coming under lethal threat due to heavily armed wildlife poachers, miners and illegal loggers in our national parks.
Global Conservation-sponsored rangers from Mirador National Park recently completed the World Ranger Congress in Colorado and are now back in Guatemala protecting the heart of the Maya Biosphere from illegal logging, poaching, land clearing and looting of archaeological sites.
Around the globe, park rangers are on the front line in the fight to protect our natural world heritage. Over 1,000 rangers have been killed in gun battles with poachers and organized crime groups over the past ten years.
World Ranger Honor Roll
The World Ranger Congress USA hosted ranger and park authority delegates from 40+ countries will explore the various ways rangers and protected area professionals are actively protecting and preserving the world's natural and cultural resources from ever-increasing threats of illegal wildlife poaching, logging and mining.
GC Supports Rainforest Action Network in Fight Against Conflict Palm Oil
GC funding is helping to fight conflict palm oil that's destroying the Leuser Ecosystem, Indonesia.
read moreMirador National Park 2019-2021 Progress Report
With Global Conservation’s support and matching funding from Rainforest Trust, the private nonprofit FundaEco has been working hard to stop illegal activities in Parque Nacional Mirador – Rio Azul (Mirador-Rio Azul National Park) and surrounding areas.
read moreNew Film: Queen of the Carpathians
Global Conservation has just released a new short film: Queen of the Carpathians is an imagined conservation story about a young Ukrainian woman named Lydia who fights illegal logging, wildlife poaching, hunting, development and pollution to save her beloved natural heritage.
read moreCorcovado National Park, Costa Rica Progress Report 2020
Corcovado National Park is the crown jewel of Costa Rica’s impressive system of protected areas. This is one of the last refuges for jaguars and scarlet macaws in Central America, and is so species-rich that National Geographic has called it "the most biologically intense place on Earth". We've been working with our partners in conservation to protect this park from threats like mining and poaching.
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