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Nature needs You, every day, more species and places are disappearing. Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. The situation is critical but not yet hopeless. Even in the worst hit regions, the majority of the rainforest biota including threatened animals still survives in small protected areas, in fragments of primary forest on sites that are too steep, too wet, or too infertile to be worth clearing, in secondary forest on abandoned land, and in woody regrowth along streams and fences.
Endangered Species International remains extremely efficient with all donations, 98 percent is spent on the ground to protect real acres of rainforest, to plant countless native trees, to restore and protect magnificent coral reefs, to protect 240 endangered species, and remove over 100,000 pounds of plastics from the ocean.
In 2021, we have plenty of good conservation news and stories. Our work is hard, crucial, far-reaching and successful. With your support, we can continue our conservation success. This year as a result of years of conservation work, we observed coral reef and fish resilience and recovery in the Coral Triangle, planted innumerable native trees, created and expanded protected areas in the Congo Basin, the Amazon, and southeast Asia. This year, we encountered many endangered animals (Andreas, add link to many endangered animals (e.g., gorilla, forest elephant, African grey parrot, and green sea turtle) in our project sites, a great sign that habitat and wildlife protection including stopping illegal hunting are clearly working. Animals and life return and abound.
The window of opportunity for establishing large parks is rapidly closing, as loggers and settlers move into new areas, so the completion of additional protected areas is the most urgent priority in rainforest conservation. Smaller rainforest reserves, down to a few hectares in size, can also play a valuable role in overall conservation, protecting many species and habitats not represented in the larger parks. At ESI we protect small and large forests, we protect tiny and large animals.
All support on a massive scale is needed to ensure that financing is available for new and existing protected areas and to encourage alternative livelihoods for local communities. It makes no sense to expect some of the world’s poorest countries to pay for the protection of the world’s richest ecosystems, when the benefits are global. Together, we can achieve much more in 2022. Please consider a monthly donation.
Pierre Fidenci
Conservation Ecologist and Founding Director
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