September 27, 2006 A newly established Brazilian state forest is roughly the size of New Jersey and demonstrates that the state of Amapá is aggressively moving to conserve its lush landscape. August 23, 2006 A comparatively modest financial investment has helped to establish the Tayna Gorilla Reserve as the nation's first private, community-run wildlife sanctuary on traditional land near the Tayna River. August 22, 2006 In a remote region of northern Ecuador, the indigenous Chachi community of El Encanto recently denied a logging company the right to harvest timber on traditional land. July 10, 2006 For centuries people reaped the bounty of this unique land, but by the 1990s, Madagascar’s once mighty forests had been reduced to mere islands of green. March 28, 2006 A nation of coral atolls, Kiribati comprises three distinct groups of islands (the Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands, and Line Islands) and straddles the equator about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. March 22, 2006 The Caucasus is located at a biological crossroads, where species from Central and Northern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa mingle with unique species found nowhere else. November 15, 2005 Rare Matschie’s tree kangaroos occupy the same ecological niche as monkeys. September 10, 2005 Siberut island, off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, is recognized as a key biodiversity area for conservation action. September 10, 2004 The discovery of a new species of cryptic nocturnal bird in a little-studied part of the tropics is hardly remarkable in itself. August 12, 2004 A new multimillion-dollar initiative by CI and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International (DFGFI) symbolizes a gradual return to normalcy in the DRC. August 1, 2004 Safeguarding this rich environment was the driving force behind a recent debt-for-nature swap involving the United States, Colombia, and three conservation groups—CI, the World Wildlife Fund, and The Nature Conservancy. July 7, 2004 Just 20 islands off the Pacific coast of the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur hold more than sixty species that are found nowhere else in the world. April 29, 2004 Friends of Nature Executive Director talks about protecting the ecotourist site of Gladden Spit in Little Water Caye, Belize. April 4, 2004 As a relatively untouched, largely uninhabited area, this is essentially a marine wilderness. November 21, 2003 Tumucumaque anchors a network of protected areas that CI is working to create in the northern reaches of the Amazonia high-biodiversity wilderness area -- the world's largest remaining tropical forest. |