Two Years of Progress: 2019-2020 Impact Report

Despite the challenges we faced from the global pandemic, we have continued our critical work to protect endangered national parks and wildlife in the face of increases in deforestation and poaching due to loss of tourism revenues.

Across Global Conservation’s worldwide projects, our supporters, partners, team leaders and staff are stepping up to support each other. We’re ensuring that our critical work to deploy Global Park Defense continues to stop illegal activities in our UNESCO World Heritage Sites and national parks in developing countries.

We’ve summarized just a handful of our successes from the past two years in our 2019-2020 Impact Report. At Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, we’re celebrating an entire year with no elephants killed after a decades-long struggle against rampant poaching. In Mirador National Park, Guatemala, joint patrols between Mexico and Guatemala have resulted in a number of arrests for crimes that have been eating away at the Mirador-Calakmul Ecosystem. Further south, in the newly established Sierra del Divisor National Park, Peru, we’ve collaborated with local communities to establish a robust GPD program, and broken ground on the park’s first ecolodge.

Meanwhile, the Leuser Ecosystem of Sumatra has experienced a 40% reduction in deforestation and a 67% reduction in poaching, owing to the hard work of several of our partners. In Cardamom National Park, Cambodia, we’ve achieved 50% GPD coverage of the park and brought snaring below baseline levels through focused patrolling and raids. In Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, we supported the first command center for this jewel of Africa.

Though we wrapped up our GPD program in Thap Lan National Park, Thailand in 2018, we are still reaping the rewards: sightings of Indochinese tiger cubs in the area have confirmed that this has become a critically important breeding area for these endangered big cats.

We’re also thrilled to have added two new projects to our roster: Carpathian National Park, Ukraine, and La Amistad International Park in Costa Rica and Panama.

Please take a moment to download the PDF of our Impact Report to read more about these exciting new developments!