Global Conservation and Partners make Major Announcements at the 9th World Ranger Congress (WRC)

Global Conservation and Partners make major announcements at the 9th World Ranger Congress (WRC) to fund and support three critial programs:

New Protection: Bardiya - Banke National Parks in Nepal will receive new major funding for deployment of Global Park Defense in partnership with Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Nepal.

Lead Rangers: $20,000 in funding to International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) for lead ranger training in Zimbabwe and Uganda in partnership with International Ranger Federation And Thin Green Line Foundation.

WRC 2019 Delegation: Funded the Malaysian Delegation from DaMaI Rainforest Heart of Borneo rangers and management team to join World Ranger Congress to learn more about establishing and protecting an economically viable UNESCO World Heritage Park based on Safari Tourism in Sabah Borneo Malaysia.

Global Conservation is especially proud to support the Government of Nepal's courageous efforts to achieve 'No Cut, No Kill' in Bardiya - Banke National Parks with deployment of Global Park Defense beginning in 2020 working with ZSL and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation of Nepal and with the honorable Mr. Ram Chandra Kandel, Deputy Director GeneralGovernment of Nepal, who was formally director of Bardiya for many years.

Like Chitwan National Park, Bardiya – Banke National Parks both represent outstanding universal value to mankind due to their incredible Terai landscapes and rich biodiversity, which has been protected by the Government of Nepal and assisted in wildlife conservation through many years of work by ZSL Nepal, WWF, Nepal Trust for Nature Conservation, and other NGOs.

Despite progress is stopping wildlife poaching and illegal logging, now the challenge remains to protect and retain the remaining tigers, rhino, prey and rich biodiversity of Bardiya – Banke National Parks using effective systems, technology, training and manpower.

Global Conservation is recommending deployment of Global Park Defense park and wildlife protection systems including SMART Patrols, Cellular Trailcam Networks, Satellite Communications, Vulcan EarthRanger, GPS Tracking, Global Forest Watch Fire Alerts and Community Intelligence.

To this end, and in support of the World Ranger Congress 2019 held in Chitwan National Park, Global Conservation pledges to donate for 2020 Global Park Defense deployment in Bardiya – Banke National Parks Nepal in partnership with local communities.

We hope this initial commitment for deployment of Global Park Defense systems will be successful and qualify Bardiya – Banke National Parks to receive multi-year funding for full-scale rollout of Global Park Defense in 2021-2024 to protect rhinos, tigers and their prey and the rich intact biodiversity.

We thank all of Nepal’s rangers and conservation leaders who's foresight to protect Nepal’s incredible biodiversity through world-class national parks and their protection, and responsible development in partnership with local communities, is a model for the world.

Chitwan National Park in Nepal is hosting the first World Ranger Congress (WRC) in Asia, showing itself clearly as a model for all developing countries in park and wildlife protection and community forest management. Nepal's strong protection of parks and forests has lead to a major rebopund in wildlife including being on track to double Bengal Tiger populations to over 250 tigers and growing nation Rhino population to over 800 rhino. Today, Nepal is increasing forest coverage to over 40 percent of the country and 24 percent of Nepal is now designated protected areas.

Community-run forestry districts and buffer zone regulations and management have also been critical.

Chitwan National Park, who is hosting the WRC 2019, is a UNESCO World Heritage site now boasting over 500 certified guides and hosts over 100,000 wildlife tourists a year providing critical livelihood, income and funding for park and wildlife protection.

Chitwan also has over 500 army soldiers assigned to protecting The national park, and each national park of Nepal has a full battalion (400 soldiers) which has been critical to stopping previous rampant poaching and illegal logging in national parks of Nepal.

Chitwan’s Strong Protection is a model for Nepal and other countries, and is an ideal host for WRC’s first Congress in Asia.

Global Conservation is sponsoring Malaysia’s Ranger Delegation for Training and Knowledge Sharing protecting DaMaI Rainforest Complex, the heart of Borneo in Sabah, a proposed 1 million acres new UNESCO World Heritage Park.

For more on progress by Global Conservation’s work to protect DaMaI Rainforest Complex, see 2019 Mission to Sabah's Heart of Borneo and Video.

For more info, videos and presentations from the 9th World Ranger Congress, see: WRC Facebook.