Community-based wildlife conservation is often promoted as a win-win solution. The idea behind this approach is that the people who live close to wildlife can be involved in protecting it and have an ...

A recent study from Uganda’s Kibale National Park found that nine mammal species, including five monkey species, have grown in abundance over the decades, suggesting that conservation efforts are ...

National Geographic Explorer João Campos-Silva has long been fascinated by the arapaima, since before it sprung back from near extinction just over a decade ago. The precarious state of the world’s ...

During the medieval period, references to the markhor appear sporadically in the memoirs and biographies of Mughal emperors ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In Brazil’s western Amazon, community-led efforts to protect the pirarucu, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, bring conservation benefits ...

July 14, 2023 — Cruising the crystal-blue waters off Mafia Island, Tanzania, you never feel alone. Boats of all shapes and sizes glide past, fishing the nutrient-rich Mafia channel. Seabirds circle ...

A little more than a year ago, the Haida Nation released the Land-Sea-People plan to manage Gwaii Haanas, off the coast of northern British Columbia, “from mountaintop to seafloor as a single, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority took steps to practice conservation of the islands through its Kahu ʻĀina program, which is in partnership with a division of the Hawaiian Council, by ...

In the mid-1990s, the remote community of Klemtu in Canada’s British Columbia had to make a choice. Hit hard by the collapse of the fishing and forestry industries, unemployment was rocketing, and ...