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Botswana’s Chobe National Park is more than a natural treasure—it’s a powerful engine for inclusive socioeconomic growth. Home to the world’s largest African elephant population and endangered species like the African wild dog. Chobe, being part of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) – the largest land-based transboundary conservation area in the world – is among ecosystems that are vital to biodiversity, tourism, and regional stability.

Today, the Global Environment Facility announced the approval of $15.6 million to support the initiative, “Beyond 30x30: Ensuring Resilience in the Eastern Tropical Pacific through Greater Cross-Border Cooperation,” which aims to improve the resilience of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor (CMAR).

A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nature conservation successful, but that scaling conservation interventions up would be transformational for halting and reversing biodiversity loss—a crisis that can lead to ecosystem collapses and a planet less able to support life—and reducing the effects of climate change.

The Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) has approved project preparation grants and set aside nearly $40 million to support new proposed initiatives in Brazil, Gabon, and Mexico, providing a boost to international efforts to put nature on a path to recovery this decade.

At the crossroads of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Uzbekistan, among high and rugged mountain ranges lies Aksu-Zhabagly Nature Reserve - the oldest nature reserve in Central Asia and a part of UNESCO's World Network of Biospheres and World Heritage List.

The High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People (the Coalition) announced today the formation of a new permanent Secretariat to be co-hosted by World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Global Environment Facility.