Today, in places where wildlife had all but vanished, populations are stabilising and beginning to return. Communities in climate stressed regions are rebuilding stewardship systems that strengthen both livelihoods and ecosystems. Governments are adopting new governance models and financing mechanisms because they see that conservation, when done well, delivers for their people and their economies.

These results are emerging not from isolated success stories, but from a continental model that the Wildlife Conservation Society is helping to build — one that implements solutions in the most fragile places, under converging pressures, at the scale that nature’s global recovery requires.