Despite operating under pandemic restrictions, Global Conservation continued to support our park and marine protection work around the world.
Global Park Defense is now a proven model we can deploy in any endangered park. Using the latest low-cost surveillance, satellite communications, cloud-based protection systems and a rigorous methodology, we are building up targeted protection in key high-threat areas.
In 2021-2022, we grew the areas under Global Park Defense protection to over 18 million acres (nearly 10 million hectares), adding four new projects and working in 12 endangered national parks and 8 marine parks in 10 countries.
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.
UPDATE: Global Conservation Secures $100,000 Grant from the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust for TASA and Supports Turneffe Atoll with another $300,000 a year for Protection and Enforcement through the deployment of Marine Monitors on the North and South ends of Turneffe Atoll to provide 24/7 monitoring for real-time response to potential illegal activities, both day and night.
read moreIn his Forbes Interview, Jeff Morgan talks about how the planet grapples with the consequences of illegal actions while creating an understanding about what positive actions need to happen in the future to save wildlands and the local communities attached to them, and how ecotourism can help fund National Parks and World Heritage Sites' protection.
read moreGlobal Conservation helps fund a major expansion of Calakmul that also now boasts the first Mexican tropical forest reserve, joint-operations rangers crack down on illegal activity that has crime syndicates scared to enter the area, GC supports the Protection of Jaguars Throughout the Heart of La Selva Maya, critical resources are provided for the Amigos de Calakmul Community REDD+ Program, and communities meet to strengthen and support for their lands.
read moreGlobal conservation's multi-year investment in park-wide protection, local communities, and new poacher-sensing technologies enhances the well-being of both wildlife and people living in and around Bardiya National Park (BNP). By partnering with ZSL Nepal, concise efforts to upgrade the training and livelihoods of the rangers across every region in BNP helps to bring better awareness of poacher intrusions and provides speedier deployment to intercept poachers, thereby increasing wildlife populations.
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