Rewild (GWC)

Wildlife: re:wilRewildld focuses our species conservation efforts on highly threatened species in groups that are not receiving sufficient conservation attention. These species are often the focus of local conservation groups that struggle to find international support for their efforts beyond re:wildRewildld. A few recent accomplishments include: - surveys of union island geckos (gonatodes daudini, cr), endemic to union island in saint vincent and the grenadines, showed the population has increased by 80% since 2018, thanks to improved protection supported by re:wildRewildld. - in mexico we supported the reintroduction of the golden skiffia, an extinct in the wild fish, into the teuchitln river after it was gone for 28 years. - re:wilRewildld led conservation planning for the tapir valley frog (tlalocohyla celeste), a new endemic species discovered in costa rica. - in the western amazon we supported the construction of a canopy research tower in the tiputini biodiversity station in the yasun national park, ecuador and also supported research and conservation on a number of critically endangered and endangered species such as the peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey (lagothrix flavicauda, cr).

Guardians: we support biodiversity guardians such as indigenous peoples, women, youth, and rangers. Our support for people working in conservation includes cultivating leadership, weaving networks, and access to technical and financial resources. - re:wilRewildld trained and equipped community wardens, forest officers, ngo staff and other personnel in saint vincent and the grenadines on wildlife monitoring, data analysis and gps use. - re:wilRewildld funded the red indgena bribri y cabecar (ribca) to organize a national workshop on carbon markets with representatives from 18 indigenous territories from costa rica, costa rican national government, and global carbon marketers. This led to creating open spaces for government officials and indigenous territories to discuss safeguards, integrity, and benefit sharing plans for revenue from a jurisdictional carbon program. - in amazonia, re:wilRewildld provided support for cacique raoni to hold one of the largest gatherings of indigenous leaders in brazil in history. We attended this meeting where more than 900 indigenous leaders from across amazonia met to talk about the future of the amazon. This meeting allowed us to continue to be a close ally to the indigenous movement in brazil and to position ourselves with donors. - in may 2023, re:wilRewildld provided funding support for and attended the first sub-regional forum of indigenous and local community women of central africa and the congo basin, aimed at strengthening the role of these women in climate change resilience and biodiversity conservation, and establishing a sustainable support mechanism for this work. The event was held in brazzaville, hosted by repaleac, a network of indigenous and local peoples focused on defending their rights and protecting forests through the advancement of their leadership in sustainable forest management. - in madagascar, we funded the participation of malagasay conservation leaders from our partners association fanamby, groupe d'tude et de recherche sur les primates de madagascar (gerp), and association des guides dandasibe in an environmental leadership program lead by maliasili.

Wildlands: re:wilRewildld works to protect and restore key biodiversity areas and unique ecosystems. - in anguilla, we worked with local partners to complete the first inventory of fauna and flora in fountain national park to inform management and restoration plans, and another parcel of land was purchased to enlarge the park. Our director of protected areas facilitated a two-day management planning workshop for the park and participated in a scoping visit to plan how this small but important protected area may be funded through tourism. - re:wilRewildld is working in close partnership with virunga national park in eastern drc to overcome major challenges related to insecurity, poaching, and habitat encroachment by enhancing the park's protection through funding support for ranger operations, including increasing the number of patrols in the mountain gorilla sector, advancing aerial surveillance, and reestablishing critical park boundaries. We are also assisting the park in the development and implementation of a threat mitigation strategy which aims to serve as a model and resource for other parks in eastern congo threatened by similar challenges of protecting the region's immense ecological value in the face of armed conflict. - n haiti, 99 acres (40 ha) of grand bois national park were restored with our support by removing eight invasive alien species of plants and planting 60,000 native trees and palms (more than 20 species), with excellent survival rates observed. - through grants to our partners association fanamby and madagascar biodiversity partnership, we supported forest restoration initiatives in four priority sites in madagascar: anjozorobe angavo (101,565 acres, 41,102 ha), menabe antimena (517,589 acres, 209,461 ha), ihofa vohitsara biosreserve (24,693 acres, 9,993 ha), and kianjavato (223,610 acres, 90,492 ha). In these sites, locally-driven tree planting is restoring vital ecological corridors and stimulating sustainable economic growth.

Creating change: re:wilRewildld works to promote greater recognition of the importance of conserving biodiversity. - re:wilRewildld held discussions with the caribbean hotel and tourism association (chta) and caribbean alliance for sustainable tourism (cast) to collaborate on initiatives to strengthen ties between tourism and biodiversity conservation. - re:wilRewildld developed communications material to be used for further awareness raising as well as fundraising for the annamites. This included both a fully designed 35-page document complete with maps of priority landscapes and sites in the annamites, as well as an interactive gis storymap, which highlights the trip of re:wilRewildld influencer, lana condor, to various priority sites in order to spread the word about the incredible biodiversity of the annamites as well as the threats it is facing, and actions that re:wilRewildld partners are taking in response. - over the past year, the re:wilRewildld communications team produced several stories and content about the brazilian amazon, with emphasis on campaigns against attempts to pass laws that change the temporal framework for the titling of indigenous lands and against deforestation and on the effects of fires in the southern amazon.