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Enforcement Efforts Meet Technology: A Story Of Success In The Maya Golden Landscape In Southern Belize
Partners implement the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) across the Toledo District’s three protected areas in Southern Belize.
Putting Crabs on the Map: Rediscovering Lost Species in Western Cameroon
By Kristin Arakawa For Dr. Pierre A. Mvogo Ndongo, the rediscovery of the Edea Crab (Louisea edeaensis) and Balss’s Crab (Louisea balssi), two species only known from museum samples preserved for more than a century, was an important milestone in his doctoral research on African freshwater and mangrove decapod crustaceans (think shrimp, crabs and lobsters). […]
Better than Nessie: Freshwater Turtle Discovery Galvanizes Hope This Earth Month
By Lindsay Renick Mayer, GWC associate director of communications Somewhere between the legend of King Le Loi, Asia’s counterpart of King Arthur, and the tale of the Loch Ness Monster exists the world’s rarest turtle, the Yangtze Giant Asian Softshell (Rafetus swinhoei), a species that can grow up to 330 pounds and lives an enigmatic […]
Against the Odds: Panama’s Lost Frogs Cling to Life in Chytrid’s Wake
Hope can arrive in all different shapes and sizes. For biologists Dr. Cori Richards-Zawacki and Dr. Jamie Voyles, in 2012 hope came in the shape of a small black and golden frog sitting atop a mossy boulder, a species that had become so rare over the previous decade that scientists feared that it had vanished […]
Tapir Tracks Pave Path For Effective Conservation
Almuk is a Baird’s Tapir who has deftly eluded a team of biologists trying to track him down to collect data from his GPS collar, until now.
Last Refuge Of The Javan Rhinos
In 1883, the volcano Krakatau erupted off the coast of Java in Indonesia in an explosion heard more than 3,000 miles away. Tsunamis devastated nearby coastal areas and communities, and the peninsula of Ujung Kulon was reduced to a swampy, malaria-ridden, uninhabitable wilderness. Who would have thought that such devastation could actually save a species? […]
A Javan Rhino Encounter In Ujung Kulon
In the dense bamboo, palm and rattan jungle, a browsing rhino can be heard some distance away. From our rickety viewing platform a few meters from a wallow, we listened intently as the crashes and snaps passed us by then started coming slowly toward us. The light was fading when, through the mess of vegetation […]
Earth Optimism: Tracking Success in Species Recovery
By Barney Long, GWC director of species conservation In 2008, tigers were in trouble. Conservationists, who were giving up on the strategy of saving large areas of habitat where tigers could fulfill their ecological niche as top predators, were instead starting to consider a more protectionist strategy using only a handful of sites to slow […]
A Q&A With GWC’s New Office Manager
This year Jill Lucena joined our team as GWC’s new office manager. Jill ensures that everything runs smoothly in the office of GWC’s Chief Conservation Officer Russ Mittermeier. She manages the distribution and sales of several book series, including the CEMEX Nature Series, GWC-produced field guides and pocket guides and the IUCN Primate Specialist Group […]
Happy Hatchday: 21 Years of Conservation Success for the Kakapo
By Kristin Arakawa It’s flightless. It’s nocturnal. It’s the world’s heaviest parrot. It’s possibly the world’s oldest living bird. It has a low-frequency mating ‘boom’ that can travel several kilometers. It has a sweet scent, similar to honey. This is how the New Zealand Department of Conservation describes the Kākāpō, a charismatic parrot species found nowhere […]