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In September, the Global Conservation Fund celebrated its 10th Anniversary at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, South Korea.

After a multi-year effort by World Wildlife Fund and partners, the government of Mozambique declared the Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago Environmental Protection Area on Nov. 6, thereby creating the largest coastal/marine reserve in Africa.

GCF celebrates the first disbursement of the recently established Vilcanota Polylepis Endowment, a fund created to support a growing network of private conservation areas in the mountains outside of Cusco, Peru.

GCF in partnership with Malagasy NGO Fanamby monitor the conservation status of the golden-crowned sifaka. This lemur's population of an estimated 10,000 individuals is found only within the dry deciduous and semi-evergreen forest fragments of Loky-Manambato, Madagascar.​

​In its first meeting of the year, the Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) of Mt. Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (MMPL) approved a resolution imposing conservation fees for recreational activities in the protected area, including hiking, mountaineering, and birdwatching.

CI’s Global Conservation Fund is participating in an innovative new fund for Costa Rica that will support biodiversity services under a payment for ecosystem services (PES) scheme targeting private land holders.

Brazil's President creates four new protected areas and expands two national parks.

The Gulf of California, between the Baja California Peninsula and the Sonoran desert of Mexico, has an appeal that many life forms find hard to resist.

In the southern Peruvian Andes, Efraín Samochuallpa Solis can often be found working with the residents of the Cordillera de Vilcanota region, near his birthplace, to preserve its natural resources.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo recently established the 120,457-hectare Mount Mantalingahan Protected Landscape on the island of Palawan.

In the waters beyond the breaking surf, the sea pulses with some of the richest marine life on the planet, ranging from spiny lobsters and sea urchins to yellowfin tuna and sardines.

The gentle bonobo —a primate of west central Democratic Republic of Congo that is known for its peaceful ways—is a fitting symbol for this area that has become a bastion of tranquility in a country better known for conflict.

Chris Stone is the grant director for the Global Conservation Fund (GCF). Julie Shaw talks with him about the fund’s unique focus on securing financing to cover the management costs of protected areas in the long term.

Named for the three rivers that flow through it – the Yopno, Uruwa and Som – the reserve is the first national conservation area declared by Papua New Guinea under a law passed in 1978.

Namibians have made it to the end of the long journey to establish the Sperrgebiet National Park, a 2.6 million-hectare protected area that is the largest single-area proclamation in Africa in the past 20 years.