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No Pain, No Gain In The Search For This Lost Frog
If you’re biologist Mauricio Akmentins, your first thought when you hear the call of a lovely little frog lost to science for the last 25 years is not “holy $#@%, I think I just rediscovered the long-lost Baritú’s Marsupial Frog!” Instead, your first thought is that somebody is playing a less-than-funny practical joke on you, […]
GWC’s Conservation Superpower: Collaboration
By Dr. Thomas E. Lacher, Jr., Associate Conservation Scientist Professor, Texas A&M University Global Wildlife Conservation may be celebrating its 10-year anniversary, but to me it feels like so much than 10 years’ worth of conservation collaboration! I have been working with GWC CEO Wes Sechrest since 2005, and I worked with many of the […]
Sumatran Rhino Rescue Plan Spurs New Hope For Vanishing Species
By Barney Long, GWC’s senior director of species conservation I often look back at two moments in my life that have helped shaped my life’s trajectory and career. One was reading about the discovery of the Saola in my school library and becoming transfixed by the mystery of this elusive creature. This led to many […]
Actress And Model Suki Waterhouse Gets Wild With GWC
Suki Waterhouse is a woman of many talents. A British actress, model and entrepreneur, Suki can now add ambassador for Global Wildlife Conservation to her CV (and we have no doubt she will!). We are thrilled to team up with Suki to tell the stories of some of our world’s more overlooked and threatened wildlife. […]
Raising A Red Flag For Red Colobus
By Ekwoge Abwe, guest blogger Secretary general of the African Primatological Society My first encounter with the Critically Endangered Preuss’s Red Colobus monkeys occurred while visiting Cameroon’s Ebo forest. I discovered a group of the monkeys chattering away, lounging in the trees. They were hard to miss with their bright orangish-burgundy hair. During this visit […]
Rare Reptiles Rebound With Radical Restoration Of Caribbean Island
From afar, the tiny island of Redonda appears to be nothing more than an uninhabited, steep-sloping rock popping out of the Caribbean Sea, overshadowed by its neighboring islands of Antigua and Montserrat. But look closer these days and that mile-long rock transforms into a playground for fierce little dragons found nowhere else in the world, […]
Sounding The Alarm: Madagascar’s Weird And Wonderful Lemurs On The Brink
Madagascar is home to an astonishing number of wildlife species, but perhaps most famous are its lemurs—and for very good reason. The big-eyed primates are charismatic, diverse, resourceful, whimsical and even quite humanlike. Lemurs have another, less fortunate distinction: They are the most endangered primates in the world, according to leading primate conservationists who gathered […]
A Celebration Of Rangers On World Ranger Day 2018
GWC celebrates World Ranger Day, an opportunity to champion the great—and vital—work by rangers around the world
Standing With our Planet’s Caretakers on World Ranger Day
It was mid-morning in a reserve in Zimbabwe when a senior ranger came to deliver the news. “There’s a baby,” was all he said at first to GWC’s wildlife crime prevention officer, James Slade, who at the time was senior warden of the reserve. Earlier that morning, a team of rangers had found the tracks […]
A Q&A With GWC’s New Colombia Conservation Officer
Dr. Lina Valencia is no stranger to Global Wildlife Conservation. Since 2016 she has been a GWC associate conservation scientist, and this month she has joined GWC in a more official capacity as Colombia conservation officer. Lina is originally from Colombia and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, where she focused […]