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:
Carpathian National Park 2019-2020 Progress Report
Global Conservation has provided significant funding to help strengthen law enforcement in Carpathian National Nature Park. In the first six months of this program, we have achieved substantial progress in ranger training, improvement of monitoring, patrols, and law enforcement, and mapping of the Greater Carpathians.
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Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park Closed Due to Myanmar Coup
In January, Myanmar’s military launched a coup against the country’s most popular political party, seizing full control of the government and ending a brief period of quasi-democracy that had begun in 2011. Political stability is key for successful conservation, and unfortunately this unrest has led to the closure of Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park (AKNP), one of our Global Park Defense sites.
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Earth Day 2021: Launching People vs. Extinction
We're excited to be part of an innovative new initiative, aimed at stopping extinction in its tracks. This campaign, called “People vs. Extinction”, is designed to drive mass impact and sustained change, in order to fight the loss of biological diversity. PVE is looking for partners and sponsors to invest in the future of our planet.
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April 2021 Newsletter: Wildlife of Mirador Video, and More
Our news for the past few months includes a new video about the wildlife of Mirador National Park, an update on our scouting mission to La Amistad International Park, Costa Rica, a progress update from the Leuser Ecosystem of Sumatra, and a note about Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park in Myanmar.
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