<p>Kenya&rsquo;s Reteti Elephant Sanctuary &mdash; the first community-owned elephant sanctuary in East Africa &mdash; provides a place for injured elephants to heal and a home for elephants orphaned by poaching.&nbsp;</p><p>Through a partnership with Conservation InternationaI, Reteti focuses on rescue and return where possible, with the goal of reuniting calves with their mothers within 48 hours.</p><p>Conservation News recently spoke with Reteti founder Katie Rowe, recently nominated for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award.</p> ..read more

<div></div><div><p><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;white-space:inherit;"></span><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;white-space:inherit;">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 <a href="https://research.wri.org/gf ..read more

<p>A UN report last year found that humanity must overhaul the global food system to curb deforestation and stop climate breakdown.</p><p>This year, at New York Climate Week, one conservationist offered a climate-friendly solution to producing one of the world&rsquo;s favorite crops: coffee.</p><p>Joining environmental scientists, government leaders and economists at a virtual panel to explore the impact of food on the climate, Conservation International&rsquo;s coffee expert Bambi Semroc explained why coffee contributes so much more to people than just a ..read more

<p>Earth has lost 2 billion metric tons of &ldquo;irrecoverable carbon&rdquo; since 2018 &mdash; an amount greater than the <a href="https://globalcarbonbudget.org/carbonbudget2023/" target="_blank">United States&rsquo;</a> annual greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;white-space:inherit;">That&rsquo;s according to research updates from Conservation International scientists who coined the ter ..read more

<div><p>In just 24 hours, the world consumes approximately 2.25 billion cups of coffee &mdash; and demand is growing. At the same time, the area suitable for coffee growing is expected to be cut in half.</p><p>To help make coffee the world&rsquo;s first sustainable agricultural product, we&rsquo;re working with more than 100 companies, government agencies and NGOs through the <a href="https://www.sustaincoffee.org/" target="_blank">Sustainable Coffee Challenge</a>. But what can you do to protect your favorite brew and to support <a href="https ..read more

<p>If you could drive your car straight up at highway speed, you&rsquo;d leave the Earth&rsquo;s atmosphere and enter space in just over an hour.</p><p>This thin, delicate band surrounding our planet makes life on Earth possible, yet the health of the atmosphere is being upended by fossil-fuel emissions &mdash; with increasingly perilous results. Earth&rsquo;s atmosphere has more carbon in it now than it has had for 300 million years &mdash; with major implications for global climate.</p><p>Conservation International (CI) is giving voice to our ..read more

<p><em><strong>Editor&rsquo;s note: </strong>With 3 billion people relying on seafood as their chief source of protein, farmed seafood &mdash; known as &ldquo;aquaculture&rdquo; &mdash; will be crucial to feeding a growing population without further depleting our oceans. Although it supplies nearly half of all seafood consumed globally, aquaculture gets a bad rap. In this piece, we puncture some of the myths about farmed seafood.</em> </p><p><strong>Myth #1: Only a few fish species come from aquaculture</strong></p> ..read more

<p><em><strong>Editor&rsquo;s note:</strong> On April 18, 2018, Conservation International released its virtual reality film, &ldquo;<a target="_blank" href="https://www.conservation.org/stories/virtual-reality/my-africa">My Africa</a>.&rdquo; The film tells the story of a young Samburu woman in Kenya whose community is working to save elephants, reknitting an ancient coexistence between people and wildlife. In honor of this film, Conservation News is telling stories about the people, places and wildlife of &ldquo;My Africa.&rdquo;</em ..read more

<p>Too often, the voices of the world&rsquo;s 370 million indigenous people are left out of global conversations on critical issues, such as climate change. This isn&rsquo;t just bad news for indigenous groups; the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples could help address environmental problems that plague the entire planet.</p><p>As Conservation International&rsquo;s (CI) Johnson Cerda framed it: &ldquo;The knowledge of Indigenous peoples continues to provide key information to protect the resources of the Mother Earth, and to create opportunities for cl ..read more

<p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>&nbsp;</em></p><div><p><em>This post was updated on December 8, 2020. </em></p><p>Not everyone lives in a tropical rainforest &mdash; but everyone benefits from them.</p><p>Home to <a href="https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/various-tropical-rainforest-facts.php" target="_blank">nearly half of the plants and wildlife</a> on Earth, tropical rainforests perform an essential function for the climate by absorbing carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, tropical forests are bei ..read more