If We Really Want to Save the World’s Biodiversity: Recognize Indigenous Land Rights
DJA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Cameroon. April 1st 2019. PICTURED: A chief of the Baka pygmies looks pensive in a forest…
Tag: Conservation
New Mexico Wilderness Area Grows by 50% After Largest-Ever Land Donation
Sabinoso Wilderness Area in New Mexico, an inaccessible and tiny refuge just 5 years ago, has grown by almost…
Svalbard Coal Mines Dismantled and the Area is Turned Back into Wilderness With an Enormous National Park
Norway, having ceased mining operations of coal in the Arctic in 2017, is dismantling their last mine piece by…
World Achieves 17% of Land Conserved but Must Improve Quality—IUCN
Story at a glance… 17% of land and fresh water has been protected in some way by the world…
Tests Confirm 100-Year Old Female Found in Galapagos is Last Surviving Fernandina Giant Tortoise
PICTURED: Fern, the one and only Fernandina giant tortoise. Photo credit: Galapagos Conservancy. After a year and change of…
Santa Fe and Santiago in The Galapagos Get Their Reptiles Back in Big Conservation Wins
PICTURED: Juvenile tortoises released on Santa Fe Island. Photo credit: GTRI. SANTA Fe, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. February 26th, 2021.…
Unlike Humans Lions and Snow Leopards Had a Good Year
PICTURED: A rare camera trapped moment of a snow leopard after a successful hunt. Photo credit: Snow Leopard Trust.…
5 State Ballot Wins for Nature this Election Cycle
When Americans lined up to vote in November for their next president of the United States, 5 states also…
Having Recovered to 6,000 Individuals, DOI Removes Gray Wolves From Endangered Species List
WASHINGTON, D.C. October 29th, 2020. Having gone to the brink of extinction and back, humanity’s most complicated animal relationship,…
With the Help of WWF Russia Wild Persian Leopards May Once Again Roam the Caucasus
Under the auspices of the Russian chapter of the World Wildlife Fund, a pair of Persian leopards, a species…
Russia’s “Bear Islands” Enshrined as a Nature Reserve – Protected Largest Concentration of Dens in Russia
A face of global biodiversity conservation efforts as recognizable as the panda, tiger, and elephant, polar bears are getting…
Interior Department Decides Not to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears Into Public Land on Washington State
WASHINGTON D.C. July 7th, 2020. In a press release from the Department of the Interior, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt…
Conservation is Expensive: Rwanda and The Seychelles Show How to Make Green to Save Green
A new report from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature finds conservation in Africa is in need…
Wildlife Disease Management Could be Key to Preventing Outbreaks of COVID-19-like Viruses
PICTURED: Two men in Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary move their livestock across tiger habitat. Across the EU and US citizens…
Banning the Wildlife Trade Could be Good News for Certain Animals, and a Death Sentence for Millions of Humans
Kenya. January 2019. PICTURED: Black rhino in Masai Mara’s green season. Photo credit: Kandukuru Nagarjun. CC 2.0 After research…
New National Forest Initiative Spanning the Length and Breadth of Wales Will Link Fragmented Forests Across the Country
PICTURED: Ceunant Llennyrch Woodland Trail, near Coed Felinrhyd rainforest, Wales. Photo credit: Barry Hunter. CC 2.0 Reprinted with permission…
Earth May Have Just Produced a New Species of Wolf
PICTERED: A Himalayan wolf triggers one of Geraldine Werhahn’s camera traps As high as 4,000 meters (20,000 feet) above…
2019’s Conservation Success Stories by IUCN
Monday, December 23rd, 2019. “A year of incredible species action” raves the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.…
Three Examples of Birds Coming Back From the Brink
PICTURED: the state bird of Hawaii, the Hawaiian Goose (Branta canadensis). Photo credit Bettina Arrigioni. CC 2.0. December 12th,…
Once Numbering Less Than 400, Majestic Bukhara Deer Return To The Wilds Of Kazakhstan
PICTURED: A Bukhara deer stag (cervus elaphus bactrianus) at the Cologne Zoo. Photo credit Sarefo. CC 2.0. Kazakhstan, September…
