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A mountaineer in West Bengal's Purulia district spent eight years turning villagers from hyena hunters into protectors, saving 18 of these critically endangered animals. His grassroots approach transformed fear into conservation, proving that local communities hold the key to wildlife survival.
Three years after African cheetahs returned to India, the population has grown to 38 individuals, including 27 thriving cubs born on Indian soil. The community-powered project is transforming both wildlife conservation and local livelihoods in Madhya Pradesh.
Once ravaged by conflict and poaching, India's Manas National Park has transformed from a UNESCO danger list site to a thriving wildlife haven. The comeback story involves rescued rhino calves, reintroduced species, and communities choosing conservation over conflict.
A baby dugong swimming with its parents in Indonesia's Alor archipelago proves that more than a decade of community-led seagrass conservation is working. The rare sighting brings hope for these vulnerable marine mammals, estimated at just 1,000 individuals in Indonesian waters.
Wildlife doesn't recognize borders, and now neither does conservation. Six countries just wrapped up a groundbreaking program that's helping them protect endangered species together—from jaguars crossing Colombia and Panama to rhinos in Chad and South Africa.
India's real estate industry is planting 2 million native trees across 9,000 acres of degraded forest land in the ecologically vital Western Ghats. The project has already restored 3,500 acres and now enters its second phase with 700 more acres planned.
A California nonprofit is helping small community groups succeed where many mangrove restoration projects fail. By providing funding, science support, and storytelling tools, Seatrees has helped plant over 1 million mangroves across four countries while paying local communities for their work.
In Brazil's Amazon, families guarding oxbow lakes to protect giant pirarucu fish are accidentally conserving forests 86 times larger than the waters they patrol. These volunteer protectors work without pay, but their efforts are connecting rivers to forests in ways scientists never expected.
A small community monitoring group in Costa Rica spent nearly a decade patiently tracking and protecting white-lipped peccaries, growing the population sevenfold. Their success story faces new challenges, but authorities are now investigating poachers and ramping up enforcement.