Disrupting Inefficient Funding and Protection Systems, Global Conservation’s Proven Model is Now Protecting Over 25 Endangered National Parks and Marine Reserves in 18 Developing Countries

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.

In addition to the release of our brand new Community Protection Handbook, in which we show our deeply developed strategy for the joint protection of National Parks and Indigenous Territories, we also get to share our 2022–2023 GC Progress Report for the first time.

This Three-Day Conference will Provide Critical Knowledge Sharing and Training for over 150 National Park Leaders from 18 Developing Countries

Global Conservation has released the first trailer for our "War On Nature" series, featuring world-famous conservation photographer and filmmaker Paul Hilton, whose coverage of Uganda recently made headlines world-wide.

Global conservation's multi-year investment in park-wide protection, local communities, and new poacher-sensing technologies enhances the well-being of both wildlife and people living in and around Bardiya National Park (BNP). By partnering with ZSL Nepal, concise efforts to upgrade the training and livelihoods of the rangers across every region in BNP helps to bring better awareness of poacher intrusions and provides speedier deployment to intercept poachers, thereby increasing wildlife populations.

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.

GC 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.

In his Forbes Interview, Jeff Morgan talks about how the planet grapples with the consequences of illegal actions while creating an understanding about what positive actions need to happen in the future to save wildlands and the local communities attached to them, and how ecotourism can help fund National Parks and World Heritage Sites' protection.

Global Conservation has begun a new deployment of Global Park Defense and Community Protection for Mouling National Park and the Adi Indigenous Territories, working with Ashoka Trust for Ecology and Environment (ATREE). The secluded, biodiversity hotspot is open to visitors looking to experience rich cultures and view unbelievable amounts of wildlife.

Jeff Morgan takes us on a journey to Sumatra, Thailand, and Nepal to talk about critical strongholds where the planet’s last wild tigers are attempting to survive. Along the way, he talks us through visits to national parks around the globe, where Global Conservation is working with game rangers to even the odds against poaching.

The Guardian features incredible images and meaning behind "Snare Mountain" in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, which showcases their anti-poaching campaign results. Efforts by Global Conservation, Uganda Conservation Foundation, and Uganda Wildlife Authority net over 12 tons of beartraps and wire snares removed in 2022.

Asia has lost over 95% of the Tiger’s historical range, and there are less than 4,000 tigers left in the wild. Excluding India and Nepal, the situation is even more dire. The largest forests remain in Myanmar, but these have been poached out, leaving empty forests where the Tiger once roamed freely. No Tigers remain in all of China, Cambodia, Laos, or Vietnam.

Global Conservation is working to scale up Marine Protection by deploying our Global Park Defense system combined with an innovative Marine Monitor (M2) radar system developed by ProtectedSeas combined with UAV Drones to enable 24/7 surveillance against illegal fishing and marine wildlife poaching.

In 2021 a group of over a dozen conservation organizations made a critical purchase of land - in the heart of the Maya Biosphere. Real park protection is needed in the Belize Maya Forest which has few rangers and only one truck. These rangers also lack critical patrolling gear, communications, and surveillance technology. Global Conservation stepped up to provide five years of direct funding for equipment, training, and patrol operations needed to protect these beautiful forests and wildlife habitats.

Global Conservation supports Dr. Olena Slobodian's Film and Book Tour. Events were organized in educational institutions located on the territory of the Carpathian National Natural Park and neighboring territorial communities.

Global Conservation has been invited by SERNANP, the national parks authority of Peru, to deploy Global Park Defense to protect the borders of Manu National Park spanning over 1,700,000 hectares from the Andes to the Amazon.

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.

Global Conservation is invited by the Government of Peru to assist in deploying Global Park Defense in two critical areas facing deforestation in Otishi National Park and Asháninka Communal Reserve.

Targeting 3% of protected areas could accelerate progress on 30×30 goals, says Global Conservation’s Jeff Morgan. Simply designating protected areas is not enough to safeguard nature.