An additional 865 hectares of biodiversity-rich rangelands in South Africa’s Kruger to Canyons landscape will now be under improved management. This is after Conservation South Africa (CSA), our affiliate, and partners signed a negotiated Conservation Agreements with livestock farmers from Phiring and Malaeneng Villages in Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo Province. …

In June, Conservation International (CI)-Madagascar, local communities and other partners restored 28 hectares of degraded mangrove sites in Ankorera village, Antsiranana region in north-eastern Madagascar. This was done to mark both the World Ocean Day and World Environment Day, in celebrations that were led by the regional office of the…

In June, Conservation International-Madagascar supplied new kits (tents, raincoats, torches, caps ) to local community members employed to patrol vital forests in eastern Madagascar to prevent harmful human activities. An initial 300 community forest patrollers within the Ankeniheni-Zahamena (CAZ) and Ambositra-Vondrozo (COFAV) forest corridors received the kits, with others scheduled…

Conservation International (CI) has supported wildlife conservancies in Kenya’s Mara rangelands to enhance monitoring of Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) linked to climate change to help reduce the heightening loss of wildlife, livestock and human lives. Under a three-month capacity building program, CI and the Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association (MMWCA) have…

Conservation International (CI)-Liberia and the Government of Liberia have concluded key consultations with 78 communities living in and around Marshall Wetlands as part of activities leading up to the designation of the 12,168-hectare area as a protected area. …

Conservation International-Liberia has provided five drones to Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA) to strengthen forest conservation in the country. CI Liberia Country Director Peter Mulbah handed over the drones to FDA’s Managing Director C. Mike Doryen, to enhance the agency’s ability to effectively monitor and manage the country’s protected forests, and their rich array of biodiversity, including forest elephants, pygmy hippos, and chimpanzees.

Madagascar’s lemurs are famous around the world, but nearly a third of all lemur species are listed in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as Critically Endangered, due to deforestation that’s robbing them of their habitat. In June 2020, Conservation International-Madagascar received funding from IUCN’s…

As part of improving the influence of women in sustainable management of nature in their communities, Conservation International has selected peace and conservation advocate Josphine Ekiru from the Turkana pastoralist community in North Kenya as an Indigenous Women Fellow. At age 9, she witnessed firsthand the devastation of inter-communal conflict…

To help restore degraded parts of the globally-important forest corridors of Ankeniheny-Zahamena (CAZ) and Ambositra Vondrozo (COFAV), Conservation International- Madagascar has planted an initial 50,048 trees, with plans to plant a million others across 4,000 hectares by the end of 2021. So far, 24 native tree nurseries are already operational…