Amid lifelong search for lions, 20 cherished minutes
In over 15 years of traveling with Conservation International’s (CI) visual storytelling team, I have been fortunate to visit many of our planet’s most magnificent
Forest-carbon programs a vital tool to fix climate
A recent piece in The Telegraph, “Carbon offsetting may be a gold mine in the West — but in Madagascar, sapphires are the real prize,”
The climate solution in your cup
A UN report last year found that humanity must overhaul the global food system to curb deforestation and stop climate breakdown. This year, at New
Meet a scientist: the fisheries aficionado
Ana Gloria Guzmán-Mora is the executive director of Conservation International’s Costa Rica program, where she works with local communities and governments to help them meet
Climate, biodiversity fight gets $5B shot in the arm
The fight to stop climate change and biodiversity loss just got a major boost. In an announcement today at New York Climate Week, nine philanthropic
As coffee demand grows, farmers work to deliver a sustainable brew
For two decades, Conservation International has worked with Starbucks to support responsible coffee farming, protect biodiversity and reduce the coffee industry’s impacts on climate through
What drives deforestation — and how can we stop it?
This summer, dangerous heatwaves have shattered records around the world. The extreme temperatures would be “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, according to an ever-growing
Critical ‘irrecoverable carbon’ at risk
Earth has lost 2 billion metric tons of “irrecoverable carbon” since 2018 — an amount greater than the United States’ annual greenhouse gas emissions. That’s
Amid a deforestation crisis, two countries plant seeds of hope
Earth lost 3.7 million hectares (9.2 million acres) of tropical forest last year, an area nearly the size of the Netherlands, according to new data
To save elephants, it takes a village
Kenya’s Reteti Elephant Sanctuary — the first community-owned elephant sanctuary in East Africa — provides a place for injured elephants to heal and a home