This is the Heart of the Maya Biosphere and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Mirador National Park, a proposed 500,000-hectare protected area, contains the largest intact primary forest and wildlife habitat in Central America with over 40 major ancient Maya cities and interconnected causeways.

The Maya Biosphere is losing an average of 50,000 hectares a year to fires and clearing of the surrounding Maya Biosphere Reserve, driven by drug trafficking and cattle ranching.

There's just one place left on earth where tigers, elephants, orangutans, and rhinos live together in the wild: the Leuser Ecosystem World Heritage Site on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Global Conservation is working to save this UNESCO World Heritage Site from pressures like poaching, logging, and illegal palm oil plantations.

Murchison Falls National Park is best known for the most powerful waterfall in the world, which roars with such intensity that the ground trembles around it. But with over 70 mammal and 450 bird species, it is also a critical area for African biodiversity.

Global Conservation is supporting a multi-year deployment of Global Park Defense against illegal wildlife poaching in the Jewel of Africa.

Thap Lan is Thailand’s second largest park and one of the last intact habitats for a suite of threatened and endangered species, including tigers, elephants, clouded leopards, Malayan sun bears and hornbills.

A globally important biodiversity hotspot, Thap Lan is threatened by poaching and illegal logging, especially for Siamese Rosewood. Global Conservation is now working to protect this ecosystem and its endangered wildlife.

Although 60% of the world's coral reefs are seriously endangered, there are still bright spots for ocean conservation - areas where reefs are thriving. Conserving these intact reefs is becoming more important than ever. One such place is Jardines de la Reina National Park, in Cuba.

Global Conservation is now using advanced surveillance technologies and SMART patrols to protect one of the Caribbean's last intact marine ecosystems.

In the uneasy peace that followed the Cambodian Civil War, the Cardamom Mountains suffered rampant logging, poaching, and slash-and-burn agriculture as people struggled to find their way in this post-conflict era. The areas of the Cardamoms that survived that period, however, remain some of Southeast Asia’s most pristine expanses of wilderness.

Global Conservation is now fighting to protect Cardamom National Park from ongoing deforestation and wildlife poaching.

In the Heart of Borneo, there's a place whose uncharted rainforests are so secluded that it has never been permanently inhabited by humans. It’s as though it exists on a separate planet; some call it Sabah’s “Lost World”.

The Danum Valley – Maliau Basin – Imbak Canyon (DaMaI) contains one of the last intact primary forests and wildlife habitats in Asia for endangered megafauna species including elephants, clouded leopards and orangutans to co-exist together in the wild. GC is working to protect it.

Imagine a deep forest where elephants crack the blood-red branches from Siamese rosewood trees, where leopards stalk gibbons through the canopy, where dragon-like mammals called pangolins rustle through the undergrowth, and where the ghosts of rhinos roam.

This ancient Buddhist sacred burial site is Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park (AKNP), the jewel of Myanmar and that country’s oldest and largest national park at 160,500 hectares. GC is working to protect it.

The 220,000-hectare Mana Pools National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, lies in the Lower Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe, part of a vast unfenced wilderness of over a million hectares where wildlife roams free. To the north flows the mighty Zambezi River, flanked by mahogany, wild figs, and baobabs; to the south, an escarpment rises more than 1,000 meters from the valley floor. 

The Amazon is one of the world’s greatest natural treasures: a vast expanse of rainforest stretching across 5.5 million sq. km, teeming with unparalleled biodiversity. One in every ten living species known to man lives here, including 40,000 plant species, 3000 fishes, 1300 birds, and more than 400 mammals. These immense forests help stabilize the global climate, harbor economically and medically valuable species, and provide communities with a wealth of ecosystem services.

These mountains are one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots: the richest and most threatened reservoirs of life on Earth. This park helps protect many of Georgia’s endemic plants, and a number of imperiled animal species. In the park’s core wilderness area, virgin forests host many of the park’s bear, lynx, wolf, red deer and chamois. Migrating birds pass through here, sharing the air with resident species like golden eagles and griffon vultures and more than 100 species of butterfly.

Palau's coral reefs are considered one of the seven Underwater Wonders of the World. They contain a menagerie of megafauna, from giant clams and manta rays to sea turtles, dugongs and fierce saltwater crocodiles that swim among hundreds of coral and sponge species. One look at these island oases and it’s easy to understand why Palauans are people of the sea. We’re proud to join forces with the people of Palau to help save this remarkable marine ecosystem that is so integral to Palauan identity.

Carpathian National Nature Park is Ukraine’s first and largest national park, and the largest protected area in the Carpathian region. The Carpathian Mountains harbor Europe's largest remaining tracts of primeval forest, and support the continent's largest montane populations of wolves, lynxes, and brown bears.

Panama’s Darién National Park is the largest protected area in Central America and the Caribbean. This Biosphere Reserve is considered the Americas’ most important “natural lung” after the Amazon. Darién is among the most species-rich ecosystems in Central America, and one of the most biodiverse rainforests in the world.

The Greater Belize Maya Forest is critical for the conservation of the Selva Maya, one of the world's largest remaining forests and a haven for jaguars and other threatened species.

In the 1980s in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, fish stocks were forced into a precipitous decline. When Cabo Pulmo National Park was declared in 1995, 35% was preserved as a no-fishing area. After determined action by local families, the entire park was designated a no-fishing zone. Now, this once-barren reef is recognized as an area of global marine conservation significance. Global Conservation is proud to work with local communities to protect the only hard coral reef in North America.

La Amistad International Park is a transboundary protected area and World Heritage Site that is shared between Costa Rica and Panama. PILA protects a mosaic of diverse habitats and an extraordinary number of endemic species, found nowhere else on Earth. It harbors about 20% of Central America’s and about 60% of Costa Rica’s species diversity and more virgin forest than all of the other parks in Costa Rica combined.

In the southern reaches of the Central African country of Cameroon, near the borders with Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, lies a primeval rainforest called Dja. Here, Global Conservation is entering into our first GC Projects in Central Africa, where we will deploy Global Park Defense to address critical threats to Dja World Heritage Park in Cameroon, Minkébé National Park in Gabon, and their connected landscapes.

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (8,292 km2) in northern Tanzania represents one of the world’s greatest and most important reservoirs of large mammal biodiversity, and also contains one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world.

Global Conservation has deployed Global Park Defense in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, one of the Amazon’s bastions for biodiversity. Yasuni, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the last continuous tracts of virgin tropical forest in eastern Ecuador. The park sits at the intersection of the Amazon, the Andes, and the equator, converging several unique ecosystems and creating one of the richest biodiversity hotspots on the planet.

An oasis in the semi-desert, Kidepo Valley National Park covers 1,442 square kilometers of the spectacular Narus Valley. Dramatic mountains and rocky outcrops surround beautiful expanses of savanna and forest.

Shar Mountains is a stunning example of high elevation mountains and forests in the heart of the Balkans. It's a European biodiversity hotspot and an area with outstanding natural values in the border area of North Macedonia and Kosovo. 

World leaders adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, targeting the conservation of 30% of Earth by 2030 (30x30). However, Jeff Morgan, founder of Global Conservation, points out that simply designating protected areas is not enough to safeguard nature. Global Conservation focuses on strengthening protection within UNESCO World Heritage Sites in lower and middle-income countries, utilizing cost-effective technologies for law enforcement against poaching, illegal logging, and more.

Turneffe is the largest atoll in the Mesoamerican Reef and the largest marine reserve in Belize. This Marine Protected Area, or MPA, is facing serious threats as the ten-year old TASA implements Global Conservation's Global Park Defense, a test-proven methodology for protecting the world's most vulnerable national parks, UNESCO World Heritage Sites and marine reserves.