As we start the new year, we look back at six conservation success stories from 2024, made possible thanks to our wonderful partners and supporters. Soaring success for the white-bellied heron The Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN) in Bhutan is dedicated to saving the incredibly rare white-bellied heron. 2023 [...]
A welcome new chapter for the Congo Basin Forest Partnership as local voices join discussions to preserve the region’s critical ecosystems.
The type of environment news that makes the headlines can be disheartening. But when we take a closer look, there are so many positive and inspiring stories – of welcome progress, community triumphs, and conservation success. Here’s some good news you might have missed from our partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [...]
Given the many challenges of funding, pooling resources so funders can work together is opening a collaborative future for environmental philanthropy.
The bad news came through at their weekly team meeting: a new decree (N°2019/4562 of 11 November 2019) had been issued, allocating 60,000 ha of Campo Ma'an forest in southwest Cameroon to CAMVERT, an agro-industrial giant producing and marketing palm oil. The Green Development Advocates (GDA) team sprang into action. This is the story of [...]
Sisters Merline Touko Tchoko and Julie Gagoe Tchoko speak about their careers in natural resource management in the Congo Basin.
Sisters Merline Touko Tchoko and Julie Gagoe Tchoko speak about their careers in natural resource management in the Congo Basin.
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The world's largest and most important global gathering on biodiversity convened in Montreal, Canada, in December 2022. As the speeches, pledges and media coverage of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties 15 (COP15) fade into memory, we hear from four people who were there. Large, [...]
With the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s new agreement dominating conservation headlines, it can be easy to lose sight of the people working every day to protect our planet’s biodiversity on the ground. However, throughout 2022, our partners restored ecosystems, protected endangered species, and collaborated with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to build a [...]
