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In Panama’s Darién forest, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

With illegal logging and agricultural expansion closing in on their lands, four Indigenous Wounaan and Emberá-Wounaan villages in Panama’s Darién forest started a biodiversity moni...

Protection That Holds: Keeping Nature Safe From Extraction

SINGAPORE, October 9 (IPS) - When governments gather in Yerevan this month for the 17th UN Convention on Biological Diversity, they will weigh a promise nearly 200 countries adopt...

Michael Painter put Indigenous land rights at the center of conservation

In the Bolivian Chaco, the Isoceño Guaraní did not need conservationists to tell them that their land was under pressure. Agricultural settlement was pushing into the region, and t...

In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

When Elsa Quiroz saw the spotted body of a jaguar appear on her son’s computer screen, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I’d only seen them in books,” she said. In late 2025, a camer...

IUCN’s Madhu Rao on the world’s protected areas: Progress, pressures and the race to 2030

A park ranger in the Democratic Republic of Congo survived an ambush that killed colleagues. In Cambodia, mines and dams are pressing against land set aside for wildlife. In the Am...

From paper parks to lasting protection, here’s what works in marine conservation

In recent years, there has been a steady stream of ocean conservation pledges, from French Polynesia extending marine protection across its nearly 5 million-square-kilometer exclus...

Walmart's conservation pledge has helped protect 2.2 million acres

Conservation is bringing species back. Governments must help those gains last

  An old elephant can remember where to find water when the usual pools have dried. Her death leaves the herd with fewer ways to survive a drought. As elephants travel, they also c...

COP17: Open letter urges governments to keep extractives out of protected areas

YEREVAN, Armenia — More than 80 conservation, Indigenous and civil society organizations have called on governments meeting at the COP17 U.N. biodiversity summit in Armenia to keep...

Shaping the Future of Global Conservation at COP17

This month, governments, civil society, Indigenous people, companies, and other organizations from around the world will gather in Yerevan, Armenia for the 17th Conference of the P...

BirdLife International, National Audubon Society y CAF desarrollan un marco científico para bonos enfocados en la conse...

Nairobi, Kenia, 11 de septiembre de 2026. BirdLife International, National Audubon Society y CAF - Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe anunciaron la culminación del M...

Community-based conservation is a good climate investment in Brazil & beyond (commentary)

More than half a century has passed since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in Science in 1968. In that influential article, he argued that human greed and short-...

Indigenous peoples near Congo parks propose diverse solutions for the future of conservation

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — High above the lush forests of protected areas in the Congo Basin in eastern Congo, the calls of endemic birds and monkeys echo through the tre...

A Call to Global Leaders: Turn Forest Commitment into Action

As world leaders, negotiators, Indigenous peoples, civil society, and other stakeholders gather for the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP17 and the UN Framework Convention o...

How much nature is left? Interview with Nature Data Lab’s Karl Burkart

Where are ecosystems still left standing? Where should conservation be focused? A new tool is attempting to answer these questions and serve as a watchdog for conservation and land...

Is nature priceless? This study spotlights its huge value for the world’s economy.

Much of the world’s biodiversity is at risk, yet natural ecosystems are foundational to every national economy. A new report by the Paulson Institute, the Nature Conservancy, and t...

Extractive industries threaten global goal to protect 30% of nature by 2030, report finds

A new report by Earth Insight finds more than 61.5 million hectares (151.9 million acres) of protected and conserved areas — an area roughly 2.5 times the size of the United Kingdo...

Marine conservation collides with mining in Indonesia’s biodiversity-rich Moramo Bay

SOUTH KONAWE, Indonesia — A marine protected area in Indonesia’s Southeast Sulawesi province is home to a critically depleted population of humphead wrasse. The species presence he...

Union Environment Minister inaugurates WWF Global Conservation Conference at Jaipur (Rajasthan)

Union Environment Minister inaugurates WWF Global Conservation Conference at Jaipur (Rajasthan)Shri Bhupender Yadav calls for Global Action on Conservation and Coexistence by Invol...

A sea cucumber venture in Zanzibar seeks to balance business and conservation

PEMBA, Tanzania — Like many coastal communities across East Africa, the residents of Shamiani have grown accustomed to watching the sea yield less and less. Warming waters, degrade...

Protected areas are not for mining: Interview with WWF’s Nadège Nzoyem

“Protected areas are protected areas,” says Nadège Nzoyem, WWF’s regional director for the Congo Basin. For her, mining has no place in landscapes that governments have committed t...

New map highlights which US rivers should be priorities for protection

Three-quarters of rivers could lose their biodiversity due to climate change, conservationists say

Leonardo DiCaprio gave $1 million to a Seychelles debt swap that protected 410,000 sq km of ocean

Seychelles protected 30% of its ocean by 2020 through a debt conversion deal linked to long-term conservation. The plan safeguards 410,000 sq km of ocean, while allowing sustainabl...

Ahead of COP17, UN Biodiversity Chief Urges Urgent Realignment of Finance with Nature Goals

KUNMING, China, September 17 (IPS) - The world may have enough money to protect nature. The bigger problem, according to the head of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD...