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Celebrating Three Years Together as Wild Earth Allies
Eugène Rutagarama, Conservation Advisor, and Katie Frohardt, Executive Director, heading into Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. This month we celebrate the third anniversary of our new chapter as Wild Earth Allies, building on decades of collaborative conservation. To...
Voices from the Field: Leng Phalla, Senior Marine Biologist, Cambodia Program, Wild Earth Allies
Our Voices from the Field series is a behind-the-scenes look into the conservation efforts of our field teams and partners around the world. We believe protecting the planet begins with people and this series highlights talented practitioners and the work we do...
The Lost Years: How ProCosta is using satellite telemetry to follow and protect hawksbill turtles in their first years of life
As the ProCosta team watched a transmitter-equipped hawksbill turtle turn from the open waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean back to El Salvador’s Jiquilisco Bay, they knew it was monumental. A significant discovery for science and conservation. It was just a decade...
Voices from the Field: Dr. Augustin K. Basabose, Founder and Executive Director of Primate Expertise
Our Voices from the Field series is a behind-the-scenes look into the conservation efforts of our field teams and partners around the world. We believe protecting the planet begins with people and this series highlights talented practitioners and the work we do...
Special Report: Delivering Impact, Together
We are pleased to share with you an update on our work. Given all recent biodiversity warnings hitting the news, we took time to gather evidence of progress across our field teams and partnerships and compiled the following impact summary report. Asian Elephants Our...
Environment Education Programs in Siem Bouk, Cambodia
Environmental education is an essential part of our Asian elephant conservation program in Cambodia’s Prey Lang forest. We regularly share information from wildlife monitoring with key community stakeholders, which includes young people, to promote forest...
Protecting Prey Lang Forest with Indigenous Kuy Partners
Wild Earth Allies works closely with the indigenous Kuy community who have long been stewards of Cambodia’s Prey Lang Forest. The Kuy people, original inhabitants of this area, still depend on the forest for their primary livelihoods. Prey Lang forest is also home to...
The Earth’s Biodiversity Needs Us
According to a landmark report released this week, one million plant and animal species are facing extinction which has alarming implications for human survival. While nothing in this report by the UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and...
Wildlife Monitoring in Prey Lang Forest
An important element of our Cambodia team’s conservation work in Prey Lang forest is the installation of camera traps to monitor threatened wildlife species such as the Asian elephant. Prey Lang forest is one of the largest remaining lowland evergreen forests in the...
The Cultural Significance of Asian Elephants in Cambodia
Asian elephants have been integral to Khmer culture in Cambodia for millennia. Elephants feature prominently in the extraordinary temples of Angkor in Cambodia’s northern province of Siem Reap. Historians estimate that over 6,000 elephants were used in the...