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The protection, management and restoration of forests represents the largest cost-effective natural climate solution — but receives a tiny fraction of all global climate funding.
Improving the management of “working forests” — that is, forests that supply wood for lumber, energy, paper and other products — opens a significant opportunity for countries to reach their climate and biodiversity targets.
harvest sizes, removing invasive species and restoring habitats for threatened species.
When designed carefully, together with local stakeholders, these practices can have measurable and cost-effective impacts to mitigate climate change.
Komaza, a sustainable forestry company that works with smallholder tree farmers in Kenya.
atmosphere while generating a financial return for investors.
Nature Alliance, a global partnership to promote ocean conservation at an unprecedented scale.
With additional support from the Global Environment Facility, the Minderoo Foundation, and the Rob and Melani Walton Foundation, the alliance is moving the world closer to “worldwide initiative for governments to designate 30 percent of Earth’s land and ocean area as protected areas by the year 2030.
the Blue Nature Alliance will support local communities’ conservation priorities.
of Palau has more marine species than any other area of similar size in the world.
protected ocean area from than 30 percent of its national waters — a major leap that puts the Central American country nine years ahead of a global deadline to protect nearly a third of the world’s land and sea.
The expanded Cocos Island National Park, off the country’s Pacific coast, will now cover more than a staggering 26 times larger than its previous size.
Costa Rica announced it would expand its protected ocean area from to more than 30 % % 01: Off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, the Cocos Island National Park provides a habitat for endangered sharks, sea turtles and marine mammals.
STUDY FINDS Out of sight, a growing climate justice issue threatens to upend the industry around the world’s most consumed fish.
It has long been known that climate change is forcing Pacific tuna to migrate into open seas in search of warmer waters, and away from the Pacific islands that depend on them.
What was not known was just how bad this growing problem could be.
future due to sea-level rise — would lose up to of fishing fees.
Meanwhile, unregulated and unsustainable fishing on open seas could severely dent tuna populations that provide a critical source of food the world over.
is planning a large-scale, seven-year initiative with benefits that tuna provides to Pacific communities and protect the critical ecosystems that support tuna populations.
A Conservation International study last year helped shine a light on the millions of onshore fish workers — predominantly women — who spend long hours cleaning and packaging fish in factories, maintaining community fish farms and often filling low-paying or informal positions throughout seafood supply chains around the world.
In these roles, women face a different — but equally egregious — set of human rights abuses, the researchers write.
International — are already providing a roadmap to a more equitable future for the industry.
CONSERVATION Marine conservation will not be effective or durable unless it includes the full participation of the communities whose lives and livelihoods depend directly on the oceans.
Through the Blue Nature Alliance, Conservation International is incorporating social equity as a core value that informs our work around the world.
Conservation International staff contributing — explores these issues and calls for steps for improving social equity in ocean conservation efforts.
This research reviews how justice, equity, diversity and inclusion can be better integrated in marine conservation policy and practice, a significant resource for the field.
signal that Conservation International’s approach to marine conservation is one worth following. 01: Women fill 90 percent of land-based jobs at fisheries, including cleaning, processing and packaging — but often face systemic discrimination.
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL “We feel a deep and enduring connection to the Surf Conservation Partnership and its mission to protect precious marine and coastal areas.
Here are some of our highlights from the past year.
However, as Liberia’s economy has grown, experts have warned that these ecosystems could become victims of unsustainable oil palm development, urbanization and logging.
with the government to account for the economic value of nature.
protection and production for the marine ecosystems they depend on.
protected areas within a broader system of sustainable ocean management.
and coastal habitats with similar characteristics such as thriving biodiversity, vibrant ecotourism and sustainable fishing practices.
RESEARCH SHOWS and two in the Pacific — researchers identified best practices for establishing and maintaining them.
Not only can these lessons drive the creation of future seascapes, they are also supporting movement toward the global “initiative to protect 30 percent of land and 30 percent of sea by 2030.
A NEW HAVEN IN THE HIGHLANDS A small community in the Bolivian Andes is making a huge impact on one the most unique and biodiverse ecosystems in the world.
With support from Conservation International, the municipality of Guanay passed a law to conserve a huge swath of pristine cloud forests and vast grasslands blanketing the western slopes of these green highlands.
The protected landscapes span an area nearly twice the size of Singapore and are home to vibrant wildlife, from spectacled bears — South America’s only native bear species — to Peruvian dwarf deer.
The area will also protect one of the only known populations of Oreobates zongoensis — the so-called “devil-eyed” frog, which was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered on a recent Conservation International expedition in Bolivia.
By choosing to protect a large part of its land, Guanay has set an example for other municipalities in Bolivia and across South America, spreading the message that conservation at the local level can have a big impact on protecting nature.
expanded a protected area in these Andean highlands.
previously known only from a single individual observed more than 20 years ago in the Zongo Valley, Bolivia, was recently rediscovered.
resilience to climate change and foster sustainable economic development.
Last year, we made major strides in both.
More than to a study led by Conservation International.
Nature-dependent communities are typically left out of decisions involving their lands and contribute the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, yet they feel the most severe impacts when nature is degraded.
Billions of people depend directly on nature for their food and incomes.
of people in the tropics depend on nature for at least one basic need 3 needs 2 needs1 need people in the tropics, or 70 percent, depend on nature for at least one basic need.
were not sopping up much of our carbon emissions, a Conservation International study found.
and protect the vast ecosystems that absorb half our carbon emissions each year.” Nearly 1 million species face extinction.
activities are most harmful to wildlife and where.
activities are likely to drive any given species closer to extinction, or whether nature-positive practices can actually reduce its extinction risk.
species are facing extinction. 01 01: Leopard, Kruger National Park, South Africa.
A new tool aims to prevent vulnerable and endangered species from reaching extinction.
inclusion, Conservation International helps us fulfill our purpose.
GROWS Companies are increasingly taking on environmental challenges — but for many small and medium start-ups, financing is hard to come by.
CI Ventures, our investment fund, is filling that gap by providing funding for businesses that contribute to healthy ecosystems.
Environmental Finance named CI Ventures “Small Asset Manager of the Year” in its annual Impact Awards, which recognize the work of impact investors and highlight best practices.
Conservation International’s African Conservancies Fund also won in the “Impact Initiative of the Year-Africa” category for its work to deliver loans to the Maasai Mara Conservancies in Kenya, which were impacted by the loss of tourism revenues during the pandemic.
Blue Ocean Gear, a tech company that designs “smart buoys” to help fishers keep track of their equipment and reduce the impacts of lost gear on marine life.
• FlyWire Cameras, which enhances transparency and traceability in the seafood supply chain through at-sea electronic monitoring solutions.
International that supports environmentally friendly livestock grazing among rural communities while increasing their access to markets.
Sway, which designs seaweed-based bioplastic packaging materials as a compostable alternative to petroleum-based plastics.
they can get us a third of the way to avoiding a climate crisis.
This year, Conservation International partnered with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to support nature-based solutions in the voluntary carbon market.
International will commit $in Brazil, Chile, Peru and Colombia that prevent carbon emissions caused by deforestation and support local economies.
The partnership’s first carbon credit project in Peru’s Amarakaeri Communal Reserve is estimated to last years and yield annual emissions reductions equivalent to taking 75,000 passenger cars off the road each year.
incentives for communities, regions and countries to keep forests intact.
coalition is using science-based best practices for the selection, implementation and long-term monitoring of its restoration efforts.
Keeping forests like these standing in Tapajós National Forest, Brazil, can help curb climate change.
The second year of a global pandemic brought numerous challenges to conservation organizations.
It also brought opportunities to show policymakers the links between nature and virus outbreaks — and how to adapt to them, and prevent them from happening in the first place.
OR RISK FUTURE PANDEMICS “Human health cannot be separated from the health of the planet,” warns Conservation International’s new pandemic prevention fellow, Dr. Neil Vora.
unique, research shows many share a key feature: They are driven by the destruction of nature.
Since the has increased — and most of them have originated from animals.
These numbers are expected to rise even further in the coming decade if we continue to degrade nature.
must protect tropical forests and halt unsafe wildlife trade to prevent another global pandemic.
to prevent future disease outbreaks, more countries undermined rather than supported nature in decisions made after the onset of the COVID-researchers found.
of conserved areas, or reduce budgets for management of those areas during the pandemic.
economies in a way that values nature and those who depend on it.
the cloud forests atop Chyulu Hills in southeastern Kenya.
tion of natural ecosystems through deforestation could contribute to future viral outbreaks.
As COVID-cratered ecotourism in Africa, the people of Chyulu Hills in southeast Kenya — said to be the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s “Green Hills of Africa” — were able to tell a different story.
A forest carbon project in the Chyulu Hills, supported by Conservation International, offers financial incentives for communities, regions and countries to keep forests intact and prevent climate-warming carbon emissions caused by deforestation.
Revenues for the project come from the sale of carbon credits, which represent a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that countries, companies or individuals can purchase to compensate for emissions made somewhere else.
Conservation International has long led efforts to implement financial incentives for coffee farmers in the region.
Through conservation agreements, communities in the protected forest can receive benefits such as agricultural training and access to specialty-grade markets for the coffee they grow.
New Zealand and the United States — one-third more than the previous year.
presented by the pandemic, continues to impress me.
Conservation International’s origins provide a strong foundation for our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
More than Co-Founder Spencer Beebe envisioned a novel approach to large-scale environmental protection that placed local communities at the heart of conservation efforts.
As a member of the Kikuyu tribe of Central Kenya, I know the importance of an origin story.
For my people, it’s a connection to the past that gives shape to our traditions and beliefs — that’s why having a deep connection to Conservation International’s beginnings helps us build an even stronger culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Our roots have informed all that we’ve done for more than three decades, including being one of the first environmental organizations to develop a policy for partnering with Indigenous peoples — an initiative that evolved into our rights-based approach to conservation; supporting women to participate fully in community discussions and management decisions; and rolling out new systems to better address project impacts on people and the environment.
We elevated the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion into our top organizational priorities last year, and we now measure our progress toward greater workforce diversity, workplace inclusion, inclusive conservation and leadership accountability.
We are also working to promote inclusion and equity among our vast network of peer groups and partners across the conservation world; for example, we partnered with MIT and local leaders to establish the Afro-InterAmerican Forum on Climate Change to illuminate the unique climate and environmental challenges Afro-descendant communities face in the Americas and to promote their expertise in climate change decision-making.
Ensuring that our diverse, equitable and inclusive approach is comprehensive and durable will, of course, take time, humility and a lot of hard work.
By building on our roots, I’m confident that we will continue to bring these values to life, and I am proud to lead this work.
Indigenous women from Amazonia gathered for a historic summit this year, uplifting their unique and essential role in conserving the world’s most iconic forest.

The protection, management and restoration of forests represents the largest cost-effective natural climate solution — but receives a tiny fraction of all global climate funding.

Improving the management of “working forests” — that is, forests that supply wood for lumber, energy, paper and other products — opens a significant opportunity for countries to reach their climate and biodiversity targets.

harvest sizes, removing invasive species and restoring habitats for threatened species.

When designed carefully, together with local stakeholders, these practices can have measurable and cost-effective impacts to mitigate climate change.

Komaza, a sustainable forestry company that works with smallholder tree farmers in Kenya.

atmosphere while generating a financial return for investors.

Nature Alliance, a global partnership to promote ocean conservation at an unprecedented scale.

With additional support from the Global Environment Facility, the Minderoo Foundation, and the Rob and Melani Walton Foundation, the alliance is moving the world closer to “worldwide initiative for governments to designate 30 percent of Earth’s land and ocean area as protected areas by the year 2030.

the Blue Nature Alliance will support local communities’ conservation priorities.

of Palau has more marine species than any other area of similar size in the world.

protected ocean area from than 30 percent of its national waters — a major leap that puts the Central American country nine years ahead of a global deadline to protect nearly a third of the world’s land and sea.

The expanded Cocos Island National Park, off the country’s Pacific coast, will now cover more than a staggering 26 times larger than its previous size.

Costa Rica announced it would expand its protected ocean area from to more than 30 % % 01: Off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, the Cocos Island National Park provides a habitat for endangered sharks, sea turtles and marine mammals.

STUDY FINDS Out of sight, a growing climate justice issue threatens to upend the industry around the world’s most consumed fish.

It has long been known that climate change is forcing Pacific tuna to migrate into open seas in search of warmer waters, and away from the Pacific islands that depend on them.

What was not known was just how bad this growing problem could be.

future due to sea-level rise — would lose up to of fishing fees.

Meanwhile, unregulated and unsustainable fishing on open seas could severely dent tuna populations that provide a critical source of food the world over.

is planning a large-scale, seven-year initiative with benefits that tuna provides to Pacific communities and protect the critical ecosystems that support tuna populations.

A Conservation International study last year helped shine a light on the millions of onshore fish workers — predominantly women — who spend long hours cleaning and packaging fish in factories, maintaining community fish farms and often filling low-paying or informal positions throughout seafood supply chains around the world.

In these roles, women face a different — but equally egregious — set of human rights abuses, the researchers write.

International — are already providing a roadmap to a more equitable future for the industry.

CONSERVATION Marine conservation will not be effective or durable unless it includes the full participation of the communities whose lives and livelihoods depend directly on the oceans.

Through the Blue Nature Alliance, Conservation International is incorporating social equity as a core value that informs our work around the world.

Conservation International staff contributing — explores these issues and calls for steps for improving social equity in ocean conservation efforts.

This research reviews how justice, equity, diversity and inclusion can be better integrated in marine conservation policy and practice, a significant resource for the field.

signal that Conservation International’s approach to marine conservation is one worth following. 01: Women fill 90 percent of land-based jobs at fisheries, including cleaning, processing and packaging — but often face systemic discrimination.

CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL “We feel a deep and enduring connection to the Surf Conservation Partnership and its mission to protect precious marine and coastal areas.

Here are some of our highlights from the past year.

However, as Liberia’s economy has grown, experts have warned that these ecosystems could become victims of unsustainable oil palm development, urbanization and logging.

with the government to account for the economic value of nature.

protection and production for the marine ecosystems they depend on.

protected areas within a broader system of sustainable ocean management.

and coastal habitats with similar characteristics such as thriving biodiversity, vibrant ecotourism and sustainable fishing practices.

RESEARCH SHOWS and two in the Pacific — researchers identified best practices for establishing and maintaining them.

Not only can these lessons drive the creation of future seascapes, they are also supporting movement toward the global “initiative to protect 30 percent of land and 30 percent of sea by 2030.

A NEW HAVEN IN THE HIGHLANDS A small community in the Bolivian Andes is making a huge impact on one the most unique and biodiverse ecosystems in the world.

With support from Conservation International, the municipality of Guanay passed a law to conserve a huge swath of pristine cloud forests and vast grasslands blanketing the western slopes of these green highlands.

The protected landscapes span an area nearly twice the size of Singapore and are home to vibrant wildlife, from spectacled bears — South America’s only native bear species — to Peruvian dwarf deer.

The area will also protect one of the only known populations of Oreobates zongoensis — the so-called “devil-eyed” frog, which was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered on a recent Conservation International expedition in Bolivia.

By choosing to protect a large part of its land, Guanay has set an example for other municipalities in Bolivia and across South America, spreading the message that conservation at the local level can have a big impact on protecting nature.

expanded a protected area in these Andean highlands.

previously known only from a single individual observed more than 20 years ago in the Zongo Valley, Bolivia, was recently rediscovered.

resilience to climate change and foster sustainable economic development.

Last year, we made major strides in both.

More than to a study led by Conservation International.

Nature-dependent communities are typically left out of decisions involving their lands and contribute the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, yet they feel the most severe impacts when nature is degraded.

Billions of people depend directly on nature for their food and incomes.

of people in the tropics depend on nature for at least one basic need 3 needs 2 needs1 need people in the tropics, or 70 percent, depend on nature for at least one basic need.

were not sopping up much of our carbon emissions, a Conservation International study found.

and protect the vast ecosystems that absorb half our carbon emissions each year.” Nearly 1 million species face extinction.

activities are most harmful to wildlife and where.

activities are likely to drive any given species closer to extinction, or whether nature-positive practices can actually reduce its extinction risk.

species are facing extinction. 01 01: Leopard, Kruger National Park, South Africa.

A new tool aims to prevent vulnerable and endangered species from reaching extinction.

inclusion, Conservation International helps us fulfill our purpose.

GROWS Companies are increasingly taking on environmental challenges — but for many small and medium start-ups, financing is hard to come by.

CI Ventures, our investment fund, is filling that gap by providing funding for businesses that contribute to healthy ecosystems.

Environmental Finance named CI Ventures “Small Asset Manager of the Year” in its annual Impact Awards, which recognize the work of impact investors and highlight best practices.

Conservation International’s African Conservancies Fund also won in the “Impact Initiative of the Year-Africa” category for its work to deliver loans to the Maasai Mara Conservancies in Kenya, which were impacted by the loss of tourism revenues during the pandemic.

Blue Ocean Gear, a tech company that designs “smart buoys” to help fishers keep track of their equipment and reduce the impacts of lost gear on marine life.

• FlyWire Cameras, which enhances transparency and traceability in the seafood supply chain through at-sea electronic monitoring solutions.

International that supports environmentally friendly livestock grazing among rural communities while increasing their access to markets.

Sway, which designs seaweed-based bioplastic packaging materials as a compostable alternative to petroleum-based plastics.

they can get us a third of the way to avoiding a climate crisis.

This year, Conservation International partnered with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to support nature-based solutions in the voluntary carbon market.

International will commit $in Brazil, Chile, Peru and Colombia that prevent carbon emissions caused by deforestation and support local economies.

The partnership’s first carbon credit project in Peru’s Amarakaeri Communal Reserve is estimated to last years and yield annual emissions reductions equivalent to taking 75,000 passenger cars off the road each year.

incentives for communities, regions and countries to keep forests intact.

coalition is using science-based best practices for the selection, implementation and long-term monitoring of its restoration efforts.

Keeping forests like these standing in Tapajós National Forest, Brazil, can help curb climate change.

The second year of a global pandemic brought numerous challenges to conservation organizations.

It also brought opportunities to show policymakers the links between nature and virus outbreaks — and how to adapt to them, and prevent them from happening in the first place.

OR RISK FUTURE PANDEMICS “Human health cannot be separated from the health of the planet,” warns Conservation International’s new pandemic prevention fellow, Dr. Neil Vora.

unique, research shows many share a key feature: They are driven by the destruction of nature.

Since the has increased — and most of them have originated from animals.

These numbers are expected to rise even further in the coming decade if we continue to degrade nature.

must protect tropical forests and halt unsafe wildlife trade to prevent another global pandemic.

to prevent future disease outbreaks, more countries undermined rather than supported nature in decisions made after the onset of the COVID-researchers found.

of conserved areas, or reduce budgets for management of those areas during the pandemic.

economies in a way that values nature and those who depend on it.

the cloud forests atop Chyulu Hills in southeastern Kenya.

tion of natural ecosystems through deforestation could contribute to future viral outbreaks.

As COVID-cratered ecotourism in Africa, the people of Chyulu Hills in southeast Kenya — said to be the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s “Green Hills of Africa” — were able to tell a different story.

A forest carbon project in the Chyulu Hills, supported by Conservation International, offers financial incentives for communities, regions and countries to keep forests intact and prevent climate-warming carbon emissions caused by deforestation.

Revenues for the project come from the sale of carbon credits, which represent a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that countries, companies or individuals can purchase to compensate for emissions made somewhere else.

Conservation International has long led efforts to implement financial incentives for coffee farmers in the region.

Through conservation agreements, communities in the protected forest can receive benefits such as agricultural training and access to specialty-grade markets for the coffee they grow.

New Zealand and the United States — one-third more than the previous year.

presented by the pandemic, continues to impress me.

Conservation International’s origins provide a strong foundation for our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

More than Co-Founder Spencer Beebe envisioned a novel approach to large-scale environmental protection that placed local communities at the heart of conservation efforts.

As a member of the Kikuyu tribe of Central Kenya, I know the importance of an origin story.

For my people, it’s a connection to the past that gives shape to our traditions and beliefs — that’s why having a deep connection to Conservation International’s beginnings helps us build an even stronger culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Our roots have informed all that we’ve done for more than three decades, including being one of the first environmental organizations to develop a policy for partnering with Indigenous peoples — an initiative that evolved into our rights-based approach to conservation; supporting women to participate fully in community discussions and management decisions; and rolling out new systems to better address project impacts on people and the environment.

We elevated the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion into our top organizational priorities last year, and we now measure our progress toward greater workforce diversity, workplace inclusion, inclusive conservation and leadership accountability.

We are also working to promote inclusion and equity among our vast network of peer groups and partners across the conservation world; for example, we partnered with MIT and local leaders to establish the Afro-InterAmerican Forum on Climate Change to illuminate the unique climate and environmental challenges Afro-descendant communities face in the Americas and to promote their expertise in climate change decision-making.

Ensuring that our diverse, equitable and inclusive approach is comprehensive and durable will, of course, take time, humility and a lot of hard work.

By building on our roots, I’m confident that we will continue to bring these values to life, and I am proud to lead this work.

Indigenous women from Amazonia gathered for a historic summit this year, uplifting their unique and essential role in conserving the world’s most iconic forest.