The World Ranger Congress just completed in Colorado where Global Conservation sponsored rangers from Mirador National Park, protecting the heart of the Maya Biosphere from illegal logging, poaching, land clearing and looting of archaeological sites.
Park Rangers are increasingly coming under lethal threat due to heavily armed wildlife poachers, miners and illegal loggers in our national parks.
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.
The World Ranger Congress 2016 brought together over 200 rangers and park managers from 40 countries to undertake training on park management, anti-poaching, law enforcement, leadership development, park planning and design and sustainable tourism development.
Global Conservation sponsored two lead rangers from Mirador National who have returned to be the lead rangers in the newly established Mirador ranger patrols.
Mirador National Park is facing accelerating threats as the frontier of fire and land clearing for cattle ranching is now encroaching on the surrounding communities. The Maya Biosphere Reserve has lost over 80% of its intact tropical forests since 2000.
Fires in the Maya Biosphere Reserve 2010-2015
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 like climate change and poaching.
Under the theme “Connecting Parks, Rangers and Communities," objectives for the program are to:
Leuser Ecosystem, Indonesia: Using Drones for Forest Monitoring
Global Conservation has funded acquisition and deployment of advanced mapping UAVs/drones to document illegal deforestation within and around the Leuser Ecosystem. Both fixed-wing long-distance drones and quadcopters are being used to uncover large-scale rainforest destruction by allowing the Leuser team to see large areas of forests far from access roads.
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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.
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Mirador National Park: Interview with Dr. Gerardo Ceballos
Mirador National Park, part of the Mirador-Calakmul Ecosystem of Guatemala and Mexico and a crucial piece of the Maya Biosphere Reserve, contains a stunningly biodiverse rainforest ecosystem. We caught up with Dr. Gerardo Ceballos, GC Senior Advisor, to find out why it’s so critical for us to save this stunning landscape.
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Leuser Ecosystem: Progress in Protection 2019-2020
Our partners at the Leuser Conservation Forum (Forum Konservasi Leuser, or FKL) made major progress in the conservation of this incredible ecosystem in 2019. GC is proud to be a supporter of their work.
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