GC Highlights: Our 2025 Year of Impact

Written By Joshua Asel

Global Conservation is working to protect the Last 10% of Intact Primary Forests and Marine Ecosystems.

By funding Training, Equipment and Systems - Global Park Defense and Community Protection are stopping the Illegal Logging, Mining and Poaching devastating our endangered National Parks and Indigenous Territories.

In 2025, Global Conservation made a tremendous impact towards our protection goals across 22 countries and over 20 million acres.

January 2025

GC deploys its fourth marine radar in Mexico in Islas Marias and Baja Sur, leading to the arrest of eight illegal fishing vessels.

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February 2025 

GC Cameroon receives critical funding for the Protection of Dja Rainforest Complex from European Union and UK DEFRA.



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March 2025

The Global Conservation OpEd was published in Newsweek with Panama Minister Juan Carlos Navarro.

  


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April 2025

GC deploys the latest marine radar in Coiba National Marine Park in Panama with six illegal fishing vessels captured in the first month.




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May 2025

GC Films Last Lands 2: Mirador with ABC News Bob Woodruff in the Heart of the Maya Biosphere.



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June 2025

Global Conservation Supports the Asháninka People in Protecting Their Communal Reserves.



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July 2025

GC Mirador and Calakmul Forces Remove 600 Land Invaders from Balam-Ku in Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.


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August 2025

Tigers to Return to Cambodia After GC Protects Cardamoms National Park over the Past eight Years.




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September 2025

GC’s Annual Event Raises Hope and Funding for Protecting Our Planet.



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October 2025

GC Inaugurates New Marine Radar with the Government of Indonesia to Protect Derawan Archipelago.



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November 2025

GC Kicks Off $1.5M Protection of Leuser Ecosystem : Sinkhil Wildlife Reserve and Experiences Massive Flooding due to Deforestation.


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December 2025

GC Completes 8-Year Project to Protect DaMaI Rainforest Complex in the Heart of Borneo, making it the Largest New National Park in SouthEast Asia.

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The Ngorongoro Conservation Area 2024-25 Impact Report
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area 2024-25 Impact Report

Global Conservation supports two conservation partners for the Ngorongoro World Heritage Site in Tanzania: African People and Wildlife (APW) and KopeLion. Regarding APW, we provide support to human-wildlife conflict mitigation officers, with a primary focus on elephants, while KopeLion focuses on developing a sustainable model for lion-livestock coexistence.

Derawan Archipelago – January 2026 Highlights
Derawan Archipelago – January 2026 Highlights

Yayasan Laut Biru Kepulauan Derawan (YLBKD), in collaboration with Global Conservation (GC), continued to strengthen marine protection in the Derawan Archipelago through support for patrol operations, the deployment of M2 monitoring technology, capacity building for law enforcement, and initiatives focused on community empowerment and applied research.

GC Impact Report 2024-25: Enabling the Recovery of Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
GC Impact Report 2024-25: Enabling the Recovery of Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda

Since 2018, Global Conservation has been supporting the work of the Uganda Conservation Foundation (UCF) and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) to restore wildlife, develop effective park management, and drive up tourism numbers in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda.

Mana Pools National Park 2024-25 Impact Report
Mana Pools National Park 2024-25 Impact Report

With our support, the Bushlife Conservancy has been working tirelessly to curb poaching in Mana Pools National Park and the surrounding Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe. Thanks to this hard work, they recently announced that Mana Pools National Park has been free of any elephant poaching incidents for six years.

Cameroon Impact 2024-25: Protecting the Dja Rainforest Complex Forest Elephants and Great Apes
Cameroon Impact 2024-25: Protecting the Dja Rainforest Complex Forest Elephants and Great Apes

Global Conservation focuses on Global Park Defense and Community Protection to help conserve the last African Forest Elephants and Great Apes in Cameroon's Dja Rainforest Complex.

Saving Sumatran Rhinos, Tigers, Elephants, and Orangutans: The 2024-25 Leuser National Park Impact Report
Saving Sumatran Rhinos, Tigers, Elephants, and Orangutans: The 2024-25 Leuser National Park Impact Report

The Leuser Ecosystem of Aceh, Indonesia, is one of Global Conservation’s most important National Park and Community Protection programs. Focused on the Bengkung Trumon Megafauna Sanctuary (BTMS), we are protecting over 1 million hectares of pristine tropical rainforests – the Last Place on Earth where tigers, rhinos, elephants, and orangutans coexist in the wild.

GC’s Derawan Archipelago 2025 Annual Report
GC’s Derawan Archipelago 2025 Annual Report

Global Conservation’s project in the Derawan Archipelago protects marine and coastal ecosystems by actively supporting law enforcement officers, rangers, and local communities. Together, we safeguard conservation areas and endangered marine species from poaching, illegal fishing, and environmental destruction. 

Updated: GC Supports Training of Next Generation Park Leaders
Updated: GC Supports Training of Next Generation Park Leaders

Marco Bustos Salazar, a park ranger and conservation leader from the Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in Costa Rica, recently completed a specialized course on protected area management led by Jim Barborak from Colorado State University.

GC Featured in WIRED Magazine: The Jaguar is Reborn in Mexico
GC Featured in WIRED Magazine: The Jaguar is Reborn in Mexico

Mexico has solidified its position as the only country with a national census of the largest feline in the Americas, registering a 30% population recovery in the last decade. In the heart of the Mayan jungle, WIRED witnesses how an alliance between satellite technology, international funding, and economic pragmatism seeks to protect the continent's second-largest tropical reserve before it's too late.

Saving Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve of Leuser Ecosystem, Aceh Province, Sumatra, Indonesia
Saving Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve of Leuser Ecosystem, Aceh Province, Sumatra, Indonesia

In 2025, satellite evidence shows 652 hectares of new illegal oil palm plantations inside Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve, with 453 hectares already in production as of September 2024. The destruction of large forest areas in Singkil is happening now and likely has the involvement of corrupt government officials. Almost 5% of the wildlife reserve has already been destroyed.

GC’s 2025 Komodo National Park Progress Report
GC’s 2025 Komodo National Park Progress Report

This year 2025 represented an important milestone in the ongoing effort to strengthen protection and management of Komodo National Park (KNP). Following the achievements of previous years, this year’s initiatives primarily focused on optimizing infrastructure to support sustainable conservation and integrating advanced technology surveillance systems to improve the management of the park’s protection.

New Camera Traps Snap Nearly Three Times More Images of Endangered Sumatran Tigers than Before
New Camera Traps Snap Nearly Three Times More Images of Endangered Sumatran Tigers than Before

In many ways, the Leuser ecosystem is an ideal habitat for Sumatran tigers. Three times the size of Yellowstone National Park, it is the largest contiguous tiger habitat remaining in Sumatra. It’s made up of lowland, hill, and montane forests, of which 44% are classified as intact forest landscape. “It’s also more thoroughly patrolled by rangers than nearly any other place on the island,” Figel said.

Joshua Asel
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