Across portions of southeastern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and Belize, the Selva Maya, also known as the Maya Forest, covers an area of 150,000 square kilometers (60,000 square miles). Second only to the Amazon, it's Mesoamerica's largest tropical rainforest. The forest, which is home to hundreds of thousands of people, thousands of plant and animal species, and many archeological sites, is rich in biodiversity and human history.

“We applaud the leadership of Senator Coons and Senator Graham to secure the passage of this innovative bill through Congress. Prioritizing national park and wildlife protection in developing countries, which have limited resources compared to the United States, is a significant step towards reversing our war on nature during a period of challenging financial decisions in our federal government.” -Jeff Morgan

With Global Park Defense, the park authority and ranger teams will have increased capacity and improved effectiveness to greatly improve park and wildlife protection, law enforcement, and biodiversity monitoring. Our goal is to achieve "No Cut, No Kill" protection for the national park within 5-6 years.

In Panama, Global Conservation is deploying Global Park Defense in Coiba National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site with excellent intact marine ecosystems facing increasing pressures from illegal fishing and wildlife poaching. Global Conservation funded a state-of-the-art radar system, created by Protected Seas, which significantly strengthens the protection, conservation, and surveillance efforts against illegal fishing in this nature reserve.

The Naso people are battling against illegal squatters, agricultural expansion, and recurring invasions by cattle ranchers, which threaten both their cultural heritage and the region's fragile ecosystems. In response, Global Conservation has partnered with the Naso authorities to implement Global Park Defense. Over the last 18 months, 60 Naso Community Ecoguards, supported by Panama law enforcement, have patrolled thousands of kilometers to map threats, dismantle illegal settlements, and protect the integrity of the Naso Comarca. ​

Global Conservation’s Executive Director was on mission recently to Komodo National Park, meeting with the National Park Authority and GC Partner in Conservation—Komodo Survival Program. We commit to a new 3-Year Global Park Defense Program and also highlight the rangers' success and goals for the future.

Deploying Global Park Defense (GPD) in partnership with the Asháninka Indigenous Communities, SERNAP, the Peruvian Air Force, Naval Marines, and law enforcement will deliver the critical expansion of protection across over 400 kilometers and 400,000 hectares focused on two primary areas with 10 indigenous communities.

Powerful words from our leader, Jeff Morgan.
We are down to our last 10 percent of intact tropical forests and endangered wildlife such as rhinos, tigers, and African forest elephants. It is time for rich countries and philanthropists to step up and get the money flowing directly to national parks and indigenous territories across the world. Our last forests, along with the people and animals that inhabit them, demand nothing less.

Global Conservation is more than excited to have new Vice President Amy Tidovsky on our team, who brings a wealth of knowledge, primarily from the fields of conservation and fundraising. We are sure she will be an invaluable leader towards guiding GC in the right direction.

With the support of the Foundation for Sustainable Conservation (FUNCOS), Global Conservation has put in place, for the first time, real community protection for these two large newly-designated Indigenous Territories—called Comarcas in Panama and Communal Reserves in Peru.

Global Conservation (GC) has signed a multi-year agreement with the Ministry of Environment (MiaAmbiente) of Panama to strengthen conservation and stop illegal activities, such as logging and mining, within the country’s largest national parks.

Once numbering in the millions across the country, today, fewer than 36,000 koalas remain in the wild. Sadly, koalas are now officially declared endangered and facing a real threat of extinction. Australia has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world due to land clearing for beef production, unregulated urban development, and native forest logging, which places Australia as one of the fastest rates of biodiversity loss across the world.

In this episode of War in Nature, we travel to the east coast of Australia to discover why koalas are fast tracking toward extinction.

Bob Woodruff of ABC News led panel discussions at events for The Explorer’s Club and The National Press Club. He also screened segments of LAST LANDS, a new Disney/Hulu four-part series on protecting our planet’s endangered national parks and indigenous territories in developing countries.

Thailand’s remarkable success, increasing the number of tigers in WEFCOM from about 40 to more than 140, stands in stark contrast to the tiger’s fate elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Global Conservation supported WCS Thailand for Park and Wildlife Protection, combining Global Park Defense and Community Protection.

On the eastern coast of Baja California Sur, Global Conservation, with the support of partners and donors, has successfully deployed three M3 Marine Monitors while cartels approach and fund poaching efforts.

Global Conservation supports two Conservation Partners for the Ngorongoro World Heritage Site in Tanzania: African People and Wildlife (APW) and KopeLion. With APW, we provide support to rapid response anti-poaching teams and human-wildlife conflict mitigation officers, with a primary focus on elephants, while KopeLion focuses on developing a sustainable model for lion-livestock coexistence.

ABC News Live, the 24/7 streaming news channel, is partnering with Global Conservation, the only international nonprofit organization focused on the direct protection of endangered national parks and Indigenous territories in developing countries, to present “Last Lands,” a gripping new series spotlighting the global fight to protect our planet’s most threatened ecosystems.

Darien National Park is the largest protected area in Central America and the Caribbean. This biosphere reserve is considered the most important natural lung in the world after the Amazon rainforest. These forests provide habitat for the endangered brown-headed spider monkey, the endangered Baird’s tapir, harpy eagles, and many more.

Isolated communities are sounding the alarm over poisoned rivers and cultural erosion after a surge in migrants crossing their ancestral lands.