Shawati' Issue 64

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with 1,400 employees, and 97 per cent of global field staff are native to the region where they work. Boasting over 2,000 international partners, it has an annual budget of USD259 million and attempts to invest more than 80 per cent of this directly into programmes, while 30 per cent of its expenses on average go to supporting local organisations through grants. Since its establishment, it has helped to protect more than 6 million square kilometres of land and sea across more than 70 countries. Conservation International focuses on three main objectives: looking after nature to stabilise our climate, protecting oceans while ensuring productivity, and building and replicating nature-based economies. To that end, it has identified that the global, science-based requirement is to block 5 gigatons of CO2 emissions per year by stopping the decimation of high-carbon ecosystems [peatlands, mangroves, primary forests] and to remove 5 gigatons of CO2 annually through the restoration and sustainable management of the landscapes that serve as the globe’s natural carbon sinks by 2030. To maintain the long-term health of humanity-dependent marine ecosystems, it aims to actively preserve 30 per cent of the world’s oceans via area-based protections and the sustainable management of vital fisheries and aquaculture sites by 2030. It backs the embracing of a nature-based development approach in the most significant places for nature on earth by demonstrating that when nature is conserved and restored, human well- being is enhanced; funding models that take advantage of philanthropic and government investments to engage private capital and encourage local revenue generation; and promoting feasible production models for commodities that associate public demand, sustainable production, the safeguarding of vital resources and local benefits. Proposing a science-based method, Conservation International’s researchers have zoomed in on the places that the world must target for protection. As one of the few conservation organisations with a global team devoted only to producing peer-reviewed science, it has published more than 1,100 peer-reviewed articles, many in leading journals like Science, Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, thereby making its research among the most influential of

CI staff and VR crew shooting Conservation International’s second virtual reality film about the Amazon in September 2016. © Conservation International / photo by John Martin

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H istoric storms, floods and hurricanes, or, on the contrary, raging forest fires, heatwaves and droughts ravaging our planet – humanity is pushing the ecosystems on which it depends to the brink of destruction and driving mass extinctions of wildlife. With nature sounding the alarm and flashing clear warning signals, Conservation International is charting the path forward. Although the challenges appear insurmountable, it has decided to act in places that count the most ever since its founding in 1987. Channelling its resources almost exclusively to the Global South, it works in some of the most far-flung and difficult places on earth, whose inhabitants rely directly on nature for their survival and livelihoods. Running projects in over 100 countries, Conservation International has offices in 29 nations

Cloud forest and elfin forest characterized much of the area surveyed on the Zongo RAP expedition. Thick layers of moss, with abundant orchids, ferns and bromeliads were interspersed among bamboo and trees adapted to the montane climate. © Trond Larsen

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