Conservation International

Established in 1987, Conservation International has been dedicated to highlighting and safeguarding the essential advantages that nature offers to people. By merging hands-on efforts with advancements in science, policy, and finance, we have successfully preserved over 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million square miles) of land and ocean in over 70 nations. Currently, we operate in more than 24 countries and collaborate with a vast network of partners worldwide, making our impact truly international. We owe our progress to your support, which helps us continue our mission to protect nature for everyone’s benefit.

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New protected area a win for Amazonian wildlife, people

1 week ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy |Will McCarry

In Peru’s far north, rivers converge and shape parallel worlds. Here, along the Colombian border, a rush from the Andes merges with the Algodón, a meandering trickle the color of well-steeped tea. These waters feed floodplains, swamps and forests that support species found nowhere else on Earth.
To save a dying forest, this town dug in

2 weeks ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

Off Mexico's Yucatán coast, a road connects a small fishing community's slender islet to the mainland. On one side of the road sits a healthy mangrove forest teeming with wildlife. On the other side of the road: bare dirt, pocked with patchy stands of mangrove trees.
High seas treaty ‘a long time coming’

2 weeks ago | conservation.org

UN gathering boosts hopes for sealing deal to protect open ocean, Conservation International expert says.
STATEMENT: Conservation International CEO on French Polynesia’s Historic New Marine Protected Area

2 weeks ago | conservation.org

Conservation International today issued the following statement in support of President Moetai Brotherson’s announcement at UNOC regarding new protections for French Polynesia’s Marine Managed Area.
Hawai‘i passes landmark tourist fee to fight climate change

1 month ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

A small fee stands to make a big impact in Hawai‘i. Hawai‘i lawmakers passed a groundbreaking bill that will impose a small tax on visitors in an effort to protect the islands from the growing risks of a warming planet.
In age of extinction, ‘we need your creativity’

1 month ago | conservation.org | Max Marcovitch

“Don't chase your dreams.”It’s unconventional advice for a commencement address — but these are unconventional times for new college graduates, Conservation International CEO M.
An overlooked climate ally is in deep trouble

1 month ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

Underwater and out of sight, one of humanity’s most effective weapons against climate change is struggling. According to a new study, failure to protect the world’s seagrasses will come at a steep cost — in more ways than one. Protecting the world’s seagrasses could avert climate damages valued at over US$ 200 billion by preventing the release of 1.2 billion tons of carbon pollution — an amount equivalent to the annual carbon footprint of 100 million homes in the United States.
News spotlight: Study offers hope for endangered axolotl

1 month ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

Axolotls — the cute and charismatic creatures made famous by the video game “Minecraft” — are in a free fall. Pollution, modern farming and the introduction of invasive fish that prey on the critically endangered species have reduced their habitat to the channels of a single lake in Mexico. But a new study is offering a glimmer of hope: Captive-bred axolotls can survive in the wild, Justine McDaniel reported for The Washington Post.
What on Earth is ‘eDNA’?

2 months ago | conservation.org | Will McCarry

Editor’s note: From “blue carbon” to “ecosystem services,” environmental jargon is everywhere. Conservation International looks to make sense of it in an occasional explainer series we’re calling “What on Earth?"In this installment, we explore eDNA, a wildlife monitoring tool that is changing the way we study the natural world. I keep seeing this thing called "eDNA" in science articles. What is it?
In Hawai‘i, new effort to bring invasive species to heel

2 months ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

Off the coast of Hawai‘i, an unwelcome guest crowds the waters, devouring creatures that cross its path. How to stop them? A new effort wants to put them on your feet. Measuring barely a foot long (30 centimeters), lemon yellow with electric-blue stripes, ta’ape doesn’t look like much of a threat, yet it travels in the thousands, a moving wall of fish in Hawai‘i’s waters. For decades, the invasive species has feasted on native fish — and fishermen’s wallets.