This year’s GWP annual conference had 80 participants joining in-person in Nairobi, Kenya, and others joining virtually for targeted hybrid sessions. The conference agenda was filled with vibrant discussions on GWP’s priority technical themes including human-wildlife conflict, law enforcement, protected area management, nature-based tourism, and sustainability for conservation financing. GWP projects presented posters on their greatest impacts for people, wildlife, and landscapes, identified common knowledge needs, and shared ideas and opportunities for collaboration. A site visit to the Maasai Mara helped participants learn more about conservancies and wildlife management.

The GWP in partnership with the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes (ASL) Program delivered a series of training events to support both GWP and ASL national projects on their planning and implementation activities related to ecological corridors and connectivity. An up-to-date collection of resources, articles, guidelines, books, webpages and more on ecological corridors and connectivity is now available to peruse.

This resource library is a part of the broader knowledge series that was launched in April 2022, it can accessed here.

With the help of technology, protected area authorities, rangers, NGOs and practitioners are combating poaching and IWT and monitoring wildlife. Explore this conservation technology e-book developed by the GWP to find out more about what technologies are on the forefront of conservation.

This new GWP guidance note illustrates the most recurrent challenges, experiences, and lessons learned across GWP projects to support national and subnational-level coordination among law enforcement agencies responsible for addressing wildlife trafficking.

It is informed by interviews with GWP project teams and the virtual knowledge workshop held in May 2022.

Watch the video of the GWP project in Thailand to learn about how it is combating IWT domestically and internationally by strengthening collaboration, promoting coordination between law enforcement agencies, and increasing public awareness to reduce demand for illegal wildlife parts and products.

Watch the video here

An article on the ecotourism product development workshop, which aimed to enhance the capacity of the project stakeholders within and outside the project landscape and provide a platform for knowledge and experience-sharing for the project coordinators in the landscape districts and beyond. The workshop also focused on creating awareness and developing a common understanding of the mandatory project requirements during the implementation phase.

This report demonstrates that the current tiger range, which has shrunk by 95% over the past 100 years, has the potential to increase by an additional 1.7 million km2, which is more than double its current size. The range recovery areas identified cover landscapes across 15 countries, including all current tiger range countries and five where tigers are believed to be functionally extinct—Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Lao PDR, Pakistan, and Vietnam.

This review assesses how supply chain management and traceability tools could be adapted to wild animal trade chains to reduce zoonotic disease risks and outlines lessons, gaps, and opportunities to improve supply chain management and traceability.

A new YouTube channel launched by USAID highlights the extensive conservation work of the global community of civil society and international organizations, governments, communities, Indigenous Peoples and the private sector towards big cat conservation. The Big Cats Big Opportunities YouTube Channel will profile livestream events and relevant video content.

Nature-based tourism destinations face new opportunities and challenges in their recovery from COVID-19. Join this webinar to learn about new resources and innovations for pandemic recovery in the second edition of the GWP’s Tools and Resources for NBT Report.

Other past webinars can be found here.