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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In Hawai‘i, new effort to bring invasive species to heel

1 week 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.
Ahead of pandemic negotiations, epidemiologist advocates for nature

2 weeks ago | conservation.org | Max Marcovitch

Dr. Neil Vora has spent much of his career chasing and treating infectious disease outbreaks, from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa to COVID-19 in New York City. His prescription for stopping the next one: Protect nature. Vora, an epidemiologist at Conservation International, believes that public health institutions often privilege treatment over prevention.
‘It protects us from them’: In new film, Indigenous traditions persist amid loss

3 weeks ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

“What is that smoke for?”In a remote Amazonian village, a young boy asks his grandfather why a haze surrounds their home. “It protects us from them, from the invisible beings of the water,” his grandfather replies. A new short film, “Lanawaru,” follows the boy as he seeks comfort in the Indigenous traditions, prayers and guidance of his grandfather, whose help is sought after a member of their community disappears.
News spotlight: Report warns of growing human toll as planet warms

3 weeks ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

Last year was the hottest on record — sparking major climate disasters across the globe. More than 150 “unprecedented” heatwaves, floods and storms left a trail of destruction that included lost lives, destroyed infrastructure and decimated crops, Damian Carrington reported for The Guardian.
‘Future of nature restoration': Conservation International wins Microsoft challenge

3 weeks ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

Data — the key to understanding and tackling some of the world’s toughest problems — suffers from at least one major challenge. It’s often scattered and disorganized. Whether stored in a university database, a government server or a scientist’s hard drive, data is not useful if no one knows where it is or has access to it.
‘We’re just trying to adapt’: Coffee farmers face down climate change

4 weeks ago | conservation.org | Vanessa Bauza

SAN MARTIN JILOTEPEQUE, Guatemala — José Marcelino Estrada has spent his life tending coffee. He learned from his father how to nurture its seedlings — each sprout held the promise of a better future. And for decades, coffee delivered. It built Estrada’s home and put his seven children through school, even in lean years when he couldn’t pay for transportation and carried harvests to market on his back. “Land is life.
World falling well short of climate goals, new report finds

1 month ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

The results are in on the world’s first climate change progress report: Drastic improvement is needed — and fast. The report, released Friday, is the technical synthesis report from the Paris Agreement’s Global Stocktake process, which is designed to evaluate the global response to the climate crisis every five years. The report will inform critical decisions at the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, known as COP28.
As ghost junk haunts the sea, ‘mermaids’ are fighting back

1 month ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

Sitting on the side of a small boat off the coast of Baja California, suited up in diving gear, a group of 10 women prepared to descend into the chilly waters. Their mission? Remove as much “ghost gear” as possible. Abandoned fishing lines, nets and traps are a pervasive and deadly threat to the world’s oceans, smothering coral reefs and ensnaring marine animals. According to one estimate, nearly a third of fishing lines are lost or discarded at sea.
For one former logging company, nature’s green is gold

1 month ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

Editor’s note: In the fight against climate change and wildlife extinction, businesses have to a key role to play. But how? Conservation International’s investment fund, CI Ventures, is helping startup companies fund new business models founded on the protection of nature. Here is one of them. The Amazon rainforest faced another difficult year in 2024, from deforestation to extreme drought and record wildfires.
News spotlight: Indigenous leaders sign landmark carbon deal in Philippines

1 month ago | conservation.org | Mary Kate McCoy

One of the last strongholds of forest in the Philippines just got a major boost. Indigenous leaders on the island of Palawan recently signed a landmark deal to establish the country’s first locally owned forest carbon project. The project, which places a monetary value on the potentially climate-warming carbon stored in trees, aims to halt deforestation through the sale of carbon credits — effectively making the forest more valuable alive than cut down. Find out more: What are ‘carbon credits’?