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To permanently protect 150 million acres of the Brazilian Amazon, Brazil established the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) program in 2002.

Like coastal communities throughout Fiji, residents of Korovou rely largely on fish for their livelihoods, “whether from the sea, rivers, or from the mangroves,” says Meri. And women shoulder much of the burden, she says.

The state of Assam in northeast India is home to the second-largest Asian elephant population in India. The landscapes in Assam have rapidly transformed over the last two decades into a diverse mosaic of forests, crop fields, human settlements, and tea plantations that grow the famed Assam tea. Elephants and many other wildlife species are now finding their historical corridors and forest habitats fragmented and destroyed. This is pushing people and wildlife into closer proximity to each other, resulting in increased negative, and often dangerous interactions.

Before traveling to Patagonia, I imagined a long, narrow chain of dramatic peaks and calving glaciers.

The planet is drowning in plastic, with dire impacts on wildlife, ecosystems, and human health. Could a landmark global treaty help turn the tide?

Last September, two tigers named Bodhana and Kuma stepped into a new enclosure—and into history.

Emerging data highlight how forest destruction and fragmentation can encourage transmission of zoonotic diseases.

Scroll through social media, and you’re bound to spot an “exotic pet,” an animal companion that isn’t a farm animal or a domesticated dog or cat.

I spent much of my childhood making my mother nervous. Every weekend, she’d drive me to our local nature center, where I’d climb trees and rocks, wade in the creek, and dream of adventure.

Park and WWF-supported NGOs provide employment, education, health care, and human rights assistance to local people—many of them Indigenous—which contribute to regional security.

Richie Mehta is the creative mind behind Poacher, a new eight-part series about crime-fighting conservationists who took on India’s biggest elephant poaching ring between 2015 and 2017.

Barn swallows might seem like ordinary birds at first glance, but one well-timed photo can reveal their grace, beauty, and mastery of the sky.

The truth is that plastic waste is choking our planet. It’s polluting the air, water, and soil that people and wildlife depend on.

Marco Gaiotti discovered his passion for nature photography gradually, over years of travel to remote places.

Here are four truths that drive Lisa’s work.

The Colorado Rockies were outside my window as I was growing up. That proximity to something so magical gave me an early, deep appreciation for the wonder of nature.

When the fur trade wiped out North America’s sea otters in the early 20th century, sea urchins—a favorite otter food—exploded in number.

Mai Thi Huyen, an employee at the Nguyen Phong factory in the Annamite Mountains, slides a board of acacia wood through an industrial ripsaw.

Every year, the Eastern monarch butterfly flies up to 2,800 miles from its breeding grounds in the United States and Canada, all the way down to its hibernation grounds in central Mexico. These tiny creatures have the most highly evolved migratory pattern of any known species of their kind, but this unique phenomenon is under threat.

These late-blooming plants native to North America help feed butterflies — especially monarchs-— at a crucial point.

"Women play a critical role at the intersection of development and conservation," says WWF's Loren Mayor. "And I’ve had the privilege to witness just how powerful they become as agents of change when that role is acknowledged, invested in, and celebrated. Sowing Change does all three."

In encouraging news, the eastern monarch butterfly population nearly doubled in 2025, according to a new report announced in Mexico. The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter. While monarchs occupied nearly twice as much forest habitat as last year, populations remain far below the long-term average.

WWF's Emily Mills on the innovations in mapping technologies that are changing conservation

Today tigers are found in just about 8% of the places they lived in just a couple of hundred years ago. Increasing global tiger range is critically important for restoring nature loss and must happen in a way that benefits local communities.