Global Conservation and our partners are inviting you to attend a four-day Tikal Summit for National Leaders in Park and Wildlife Protection of Latin America. This intensive training event for National Park and Protected Area Leaders from Latin America on key challenges facing parks and wildlife, showing examples of success and best practices in the region. One of our key themes for the summit will be community protection.
James R. (Jim) Barborak and Ryan Finchum, Co-Directors at Protected Area Management, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University will provide intensive training on Best Practices in National Park and Protected Area Management, and we will here from each of our colleagues at other UNESCO World Heritage sites and endangered national parks their challenges and potential solutions.
Hosted in Peten, Guatemala by Francisco Asturias, Fundaeco, Director of Mirador National Park protection and leader of the Genesis ranger team, will be hosting our visit and explorations into Tikal National Park with optional visits to Yaxha and Mirador National Parks.
Designed for leaders from national parks and other internationally important protected areas, in-country partners and high-level government conservation authorities, our goal is sharing of solutions and challenges and to build camaraderie and a community of practice and promote information and knowledge exchange.
Global Conservation supports our regional community and individuals with the skills, knowledge, competencies, and optimism to conserve the biodiversity and ensure high quality stewardship of some of the world’s most important protected areas.
In a "historic" referendum, the Ecuadorian people vote to keep oil drilling out of the Yasuní National Park, a protected area of the Amazonian jungle where the Waorani indigenous people also live, along with one of the greatest holdings of biodiversity on Earth. GC also give an update on the involvement of the GPD program and touches on the importance of the incredible biodiversity within Yasuní National Park.
read moreUPDATE: 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 moreGC shares news from our partner Panthera and where else we work to help save Endangered African Lions. We're helping to fight against the local extinction of two different populations of African lions.
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 more
