Fauna & Flora

Our planet’s nature is diminishing, fast. Climate change, habitat destruction, unsustainable resource use, poaching. It’s all having a devastating impact on our home. It’s time to change the story. Working with local partners, communities, and supporters like you, our shared purpose is to protect the diversity of life on Earth, for the survival of the planet and its people. We are committed to saving nature, together. Protecting habitats, reviving the ocean, reducing extinctions, stopping illegal wildlife trade, combatting climate change. We fuse local and international knowledge to find the best solutions to the issues we face; from working directly in biodiverse areas, to influencing governments and businesses on a global scale.  

“The impacts of climate change are here and are being felt all over the world, but most acutely by those nations who are least equipped to deal with it – and have done least to cause it,” writes Fauna & Flora CEO Kristian Teleki. https://lnkd.in/eumQhbf3

Hurricane Beryl, the earliest category 5 hurricane to ever develop in the Atlantic Ocean, has caused immense destruction on Union Island in the Caribbean. 90% of homes there have been severely damaged or destroyed. Over the coming days, Beryl is predicted to continue destroying other islands across the Caribbean.     The Union Island Environmental Alliance, a local partner of Fauna & Flora and @rewild, has lost everything—their entire staff have lost their homes and their office headquarters, and all the equipment needed to conduct their work has been destroyed.  This island is home to the entire global population of the already critically endangered Union Island gecko. We don’t yet know how bad the damage to their habitat is, but the building for the project set up to protect them has been flattened. It’s critical that we now do what we can to help our Caribbean partners to rebuild their lives and livelihoods and rescue this important conservation programme.  Please support and share if you can: https://lnkd.in/eSDgWjka #HurricaneBeryl #UnionIsland #Caribbean #ClimateChange

As you may have read in the news, Hurricane Beryl is currently having a devastating impact across the Caribbean, including on our regional staff and partners, and the nature they are working so hard to protect. The realities of climate change have never been felt greater. We need urgent global action to address its root causes and help affected communities adapt to their new reality. As highlighted by Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines, ensuring resources and finance are available to small island developing states and other vulnerable countries is critical. https://lnkd.in/e9jrn4mE #ClimateCrisis #HurricaneBeryl

🗞 Need some good news to wrap up your week? Here are five ways we’re saving nature, together... 🏝 Alongside Re:wild and our wide network of Caribbean partners we’ve now restored 30 Caribbean islands, helping to save over a dozen species from extinction. 🐒 Previously unrecorded groups of the endangered Preuss’s monkey were discovered by a camera-trap survey in Nigeria. The survey was led by Eyituoyo Ofuya with the support of other team members Nela Duke and Usman Bawa, through the Obudu Conservation Centre, who received funding from the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP). 🌺 Last year, our partners Fundación Parque Nacional Pico Bonito discovered a new species of magnolia in northern Honduras. During a recent survey, a further eight of these incredibly rare trees were found. The survey was supported by community members and students from the local university, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras. 🐆 The first-ever documented evidence of jaguar breeding in Pirineus State Park, Brazil was captured by CLP project lead Leticía Benavalli and her team at the Pró-Onça Institute. 🐊 We released 50 more Siamese crocodiles into the wild, with acoustic tags attached to help monitor their movements and survival post-release. Working with the Cambodian government, we’ve established the country’s first captive-breeding programme and released 196 crocs into the wild since 2012. 🔗 For more good news stories, head to our website: https://lnkd.in/eEcNDHAK #SavingNatureTogether #ConservationNews #WildlifeNews

It's World Female Ranger Week, so we couldn't resist re-sharing our video about Hellen John and the rangers working to protect wildlife in Southern National Park, South Sudan. With thanks to the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, Lion Recovery Fund and Elephant Crisis Fund.

We are working with Blue Action Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society Marine Conservation Program and our local partner Mwambao Coastal Community Network Tanzania on a joint seascape initiative in the Pemba Channel, Tanzania 🌊 To date we have: ✅ Provided tailored training to 25 communities who now have the basic skills required for local management capacity of mangroves, seagrass and coral reefs ✅ Together mapped their fishing grounds and completed baseline surveys on livelihoods, climate change vulnerability, coral reefs, mangroves and local governance capacity ✅ Implemented SMART technology for community-led and joint patrols ✅ Rolled out a grievance mechanism and stakeholder engagement plan as part of the international social safeguards requirement, which also help these communities to deal with their conflicts We are grateful to Blue Action Fund and Arcadia for their continued investment in this crucial ecosystem. Find out more about our work in the Pemba Channel: https://lnkd.in/epJid-tx

It's never been more important to invest in nature 👇 👇 Thank you Nature2 for supporting our global projects and those people on the frontline of conservation action.

If you are attending London Climate Action Week, come to our event on local community rights and climate action on 26 June.

📉 Nature-based carbon credits are a powerful tool to achieve net-zero emissions, but high-integrity is key. 🤝 We're joining forces with American Forest Foundation Conservation International Environmental Defense Fund The Nature Conservancy Wildlife Conservation Society to call on Science Based Targets initiative to include 5 key guardrails in its review of how carbon credits are used for Scope 3 emissions abatement. 🌿 Our letter stresses how, with proper science- and evidence-based guardrails, carbon credits will speed, not hinder, climate progress at a global scale. Download our letter here: https://lnkd.in/eGXs9ziS #NetZero #CarbonCredits #CarbonCreditStandards