Global Conservation was featured in the March 2023 issue of National Parks Traveller written by Lori Sonken.
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Lying on her side, a critically endangered Sumatran elephant takes her last breath. BKSTA/FKL rangers and veterinarians are doing everything possible to save her.
Every animal is so important right now. The team works tirelessly, feeding her around the clock, administrating saline drips for hydration. The elephant’s leg is badly infected after stepping into a steel snare on a palm oil plantation. Right now within the Leuser Ecosystem, snares are one of the major threats to all wildlife. With only a few hundred elephants left in the Leuser Ecosystem, it’s Indonesia last hope to save this iconic species.
The Leuser Ecosystem has some of the last intact lowland forests left on the island of Sumatra. Without these forests there is no future for the Sumatran elephant.
Palm oil plantations and deforestation have destroyed over 80% of Sumatra’s forests. There is nowhere else for the elephants.
We have less than ten years to save the Sumatran elephant. Now less than 1,200 survive in the wild. Over the last ten years, Sumatran elephants have been killed reducing the population in half due to illegal logging, illegal hunting, wildlife poaching, snares and conflict with humans.
Global Conservation is supporting Forum Konservation Leuser (FKL) rangers to protect the Benkung Trumon Megafauna Sanctuary, one of Sumatra’s last major intact forest areas with over a million acres.
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Based on the strong results by Uganda Conservation Foundation (UCF) and Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) in Murchison Falls National Park over the past 5 years, Global Conservation has approved undertaking a new GC Project in Kidepo Valley National Park on the northern border with South Sudan.
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Dr. Ian Singleton to Global Conservation's Senior Advisory Board. Dr. Singleton is the Director of Conservation at PanEco Foundation and Scientific Director for the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme. In 2020 he received the distinguished honor of Officer of the Order of the British Empire. This highly esteemed award is in recognition of Ian’s more than 30 years of work and dedication to the protection of orangutans and their habitat in Indonesia.
read moreSince 2018, Global Conservation has been supporting the work of Uganda Conservation Foundation (UCF) and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) to restore wildlife, effective park management, and tourism numbers in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda.
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