We are fighting to protect nature for people.

For over thirty years, we have worked to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity. We’ve helped protect more than 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million square miles) of land and sea.

Our priorities

• Protecting nature to halt climate catastrophe
• Protecting the ocean to protect humanity

A new study found that the pandemic is crippling small-scale fisheries – the coastal and non-industrial fishing enterprises that make up more than 90 percent of the global fishing industry.

“We all have a responsibility to care for our Blue Planet. The future of humanity and indeed, all life on earth, now depends on us.”

Sir David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough

New study cracks mystery of how ‘walking’ sharks split

In January, a group of researchers found that walking sharks are collectively the “youngest” – as in, the most recently evolved – sharks to ever walk (or swim) the planet. We spoke to Mark Erdmann, a Conservation International shark expert and co-author on the study.