Kicking Off 2020 - Global Conservation

Saving the New Wild

Global Conservation has accomplished much in 4 years, but the long game to protect our last major forests and wildlife habitats - in Asia, Africa and Latin America- has only begun.

Especially in developing countries with super high deforestation rates - 5-12% over 10 years, national parks are facing destruction, poaching and logging - every day.

We are making strong progress deploying Global Park Defense now protecting ten (10) endangered UNESCO World Heritage and national parks in developing countries.

We have just secured $200,000 to kick-off deployment of Global Park Defense in Bardiya-Banke National Parks in Nepal. Bardiya-Banke is the country's largest intact forest ecosystem for protecting endangered tigers, rhinos and elephants, working with Zoological Society of London and the Nepalese government.

Combined, Global Conservation is helping protect over eight million acres of critical wildlife habitat and intact primary forests, like the newly established 800,000 acres DaMaI Rainforest Complex in Sabah Borneo, Malaysia.

Last year, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation supported our Global Park Defense model with a $1.6 million over 4 Year grant for protecting four endangered national parks in high deforestation countries:

   Mirador National Park, Guatemala

   Sierra del Divisor National Park, Peru

   DaMaI Rainforest Complex, Sabah Borneo, Malaysia

   Cardamoms National Park, Cambodia

National Parks are our Last Bastions for saving large intact forests and wildlife habitats.

Beyond deploying Global Park Defensem, we are bringing sustainable funding and park development, tourism and ensuring long-term park and wildlife protection. 

We are kicking off with the STOP Extinctions campaign working with Stanford University’s Center for Conservation Biology. STOP Extinction focuses on protecting critically endangered wildlife species and intact forests in ten developing countries. STOP Extinction is deploying a Species Extinction database which can be used by all countries, peoples and governments to identify solutions to stop species extinction. See: stopextinctions.org

Carbon for Forests is seeing interest from national governments and Large Carbon Emitters (LCEs) who are (beginning) to fund park and wildlife protection on a major scale using Carbon Offsets. This can also fund Reforestation in national parks and degraded buffer zones.

Global Conservation is investing in REDD+ VCS Carbon Offset projects to enable long-term financing to protect major forests and wildlife habitats in high-deforestation countries. Using advanced 3 metter daily satellite monitoring imagery from Planet Labs, with technical leadership in global-scale carbon mapping by Dr. Greg Asner at ASU Center for Global Discovery, we are mapping carbon stocks for five 1M+ acres national parks this year.

Our new book - “Saving The New Wild.” a hardbound book we produced this year was a labor of love and conviction to highlight our projects and Global Park Defense methodology in stunning photography and in-depth stories - savingthenewwild.org.

I look forward to inviting you on our coming missions to Mirador, Guatemala, Murchison Falls and Bwidi Nastional Parks in Uganda, Sierra del Divisor, Peru and Borjomi National Park in the Georgian Caucuses.

We have an amazing and growing network of park and wildlife protection donors, strategic partners and foundation supporters helping us succeed on our focused mission to protect endangered national parks in developing countries from wildlife poaching, illegal logging, land clearing and deforesatation.

Join Us and Get Involved. Everyone Get Involved. We are getting some major victories.

Thank you for making our work possible,

Jeff Morgan

Executive Director

and our GC Board of Directors