Mirador National Park, Guatemala
This is the Heart of the Maya Biosphere and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Mirador National Park, a proposed 500,000-hectare protected area, contains the largest intact primary forest and wildlife habitat in Central America with over 40 major ancient Maya cities and interconnected causeways.
Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra, Indonesia
There's just one place left on earth where tigers, elephants, orangutans, and rhinos live together in the wild: the Leuser Ecosystem World Heritage Site on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
Murchison Falls National Park is best known for the most powerful waterfall in the world, which roars with such intensity that the ground trembles around it. But with over 70 mammal and 450 bird species, it is also a critical area for African biodiversity.
Thap Lan World Heritage Site, Thailand
Thap Lan is Thailand’s second largest park and one of the last intact habitats for a suite of threatened and endangered species, including tigers, elephants, clouded leopards, Malayan sun bears and hornbills.
Jardines de la Reina National Park, Cuba
Although 60% of the world's coral reefs are seriously endangered, there are still bright spots for ocean conservation - areas where reefs are thriving. Conserving these intact reefs is becoming more important than ever. One such place is Jardines de la Reina National Park, in Cuba.
Cardamom National Park, Cambodia
In the uneasy peace that followed the Cambodian Civil War, the Cardamom Mountains suffered rampant logging, poaching, and slash-and-burn agriculture as people struggled to find their way in this post-conflict era.
DaMaI World Heritage Site, Sabah, Malaysia
In the Heart of Borneo, there's a place whose uncharted rainforests are so secluded that it has never been permanently inhabited by humans. It’s as though it exists on a separate planet; some call it Sabah’s “Lost World”.
Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park, Myanmar
Imagine a deep forest where elephants crack the blood-red branches from Siamese rosewood trees, where leopards stalk gibbons through the canopy, where dragon-like mammals called pangolins rustle through the undergrowth, and where the ghosts of rhinos roam.
Mana Pools World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe
The 220,000-hectare Mana Pools National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, lies in the Lower Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe, part of a vast unfenced wilderness of over a million hectares where wildlife roams free.
Sierra Del Divisor National Park, Peru
The Amazon is one of the world’s greatest natural treasures: a vast expanse of rainforest stretching across 5.5 million sq. km, teeming with unparalleled biodiversity. One in every ten living species known to man lives here, including 40,000 plant species, 3000 fishes, 1300 birds, and more than 400 mammals.
Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park, Georgia
These mountains are one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots: the richest and most threatened reservoirs of life on Earth. This park helps protect many of Georgia’s endemic plants, and a number of imperiled animal species. In the park’s core wilderness area, virgin forests host many of the park’s bear, lynx, wolf, red deer and chamois.
Palau Northern Reefs, Micronesia
Palau's coral reefs are considered one of the seven Underwater Wonders of the World. They contain a menagerie of megafauna, from giant clams and manta rays to sea turtles, dugongs and fierce saltwater crocodiles that swim among hundreds of coral and sponge species.
Carpathian National Nature Park, Ukraine
Carpathian National Nature Park is Ukraine’s first and largest national park, and the largest protected area in the Carpathian region. The Carpathian Mountains harbor Europe's largest remaining tracts of primeval forest, and support the continent's largest montane populations of wolves, lynxes, and brown bears.
Darién World Heritage Site, Panama
Panama’s Darién National Park is the largest protected area in Central America and the Caribbean. This Biosphere Reserve is considered the Americas’ most important “natural lung” after the Amazon. Darién is among the most species-rich ecosystems in Central America.
Great Maya Forest, Belize
The Greater Belize Maya Forest is critical for the conservation of the Selva Maya, one of the world's largest remaining forests and a haven for jaguars and other threatened species.
Cabo Pulmo and Loreto, Baja Sur, Mexico
In the 1980s in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, fish stocks were forced into a precipitous decline. When Cabo Pulmo National Park was declared in 1995, 35% was preserved as a no-fishing area. After determined action by local families, the entire park was designated a no-fishing zone.
La Amistad International Peace Park, Costa Rica & Panama
La Amistad International Park is a transboundary protected area and World Heritage Site that is shared between Costa Rica and Panama. PILA protects a mosaic of diverse habitats and an extraordinary number of endemic species, found nowhere else on Earth.
Dja World Heritage Site, Cameroon
In the southern reaches of the Central African country of Cameroon, near the borders with Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, lies a primeval rainforest called Dja. Here, Global Conservation is entering into our first GC Projects in Central Africa, where we will deploy Global Park Defense to address critical threats.
Ngorongoro World Heritage Site, Tanzania
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (8,292 km2) in northern Tanzania represents one of the world’s greatest and most important reservoirs of large mammal biodiversity, and also contains one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world.
Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
Global Conservation has deployed Global Park Defense in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, one of the Amazon’s bastions for biodiversity. Yasuni, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the last continuous tracts of virgin tropical forest in eastern Ecuador.