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Elias Ruta is a life-long fisherman who now works as a tour guide and ranger for Siete Pecados Marine Park. Ecotourism is a conservation enterprise intended to reduce fishing pressure in the nearshore environment.
Elias Ruta is a life-long fisherman who now works as a tour guide and ranger for Siete Pecados Marine Park. Ecotourism is a conservation enterprise intended to reduce fishing pressure in the nearshore environment.
Jason Houston

Conservation is development, and USAID achieves cross-cutting results through programming that protects priority land and seascapes and promotes the security, health, and prosperity of local communities.

USAID’s global conservation funding supports both natural systems and the people whose health and livelihoods depend on them. In fiscal year (FY) 2022, USAID worked in more than 60 countries around the world to conserve biodiversity, leverage private sector funds, fight conservation crime, and support sustainable fisheries, all of which help partner countries build resilience and shape their futures.

The Agency invested approximately $384.04 million in fiscal year 2022 funds to conserve biodiversity. Approximately 52 percent of funds supported the 13 highest biodiversity-priority countries and regions identified in USAID’s Biodiversity Policy, including the Philippines, Brazil, and the Central African Regional Program for the Environment, where the prospects for positive change are good and where the Agency can support host country conservation and development efforts. USAID also continued to fund efforts to combat wildlife trafficking, investing $78.39 million to support the prevention or reduction of poaching and illegal trade in animals—including illegal fishing—of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species. USAID forestry investments totaled $330.66 million in more than 50 countries, with $327.16 million focused on tropical forests.

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USAID's Biodiversity Conservation and Forestry Programs, FY 2022 Results and Funding

In FY 2022, through support from Congress and guided by the Agency’s Biodiversity Policy, USAID worked in more than 60 countries to conserve biodiversity, fight nature crime, and support sustainable fisheries.

USAID's Biodiversity Conservation and Forestry Programs, FY 2021 Results and Funding

Through support from Congressional appropriations in FY 2021, USAID worked in more than 60 countries to address the most pressing threats to biodiversity conservation, including those linked to other key sectoral priorities such as climate change, food security, and health.

USAID’s Biodiversity Conservation and Forestry Programs, FY 2020 Results and Funding

This year, the world experienced firsthand how interconnected humans are with the environment as the COVID-19 virus, a zoonotic disease, decimated global health, food systems, and economies. Many of USAID’s partner countries are the hardest hit by the pandemic: precipitous drops in leisure travel throughout Southern Africa, East Africa, and the Caribbean region have drained crucial tourism revenues from national parks and communities, which, in turn, allow for the increase in the illegal wildlife trade and unsustainable natural resource harvesting.

USAID's Biodiversity Conservation and Forestry Programs, FY2019 Results and Funding

To tackle these global challenges in FY 2019, USAID worked in nearly 60 countries to foster the sustainable and inclusive management of natural resources. USAID-funded programs collaborate and engage across sectors to promote the health, prosperity, resilience, and security of local communities, particularly the most vulnerable; improve citizen-responsive governance; empower women and girls; and apply technology and learning to enhance development practice.

USAID's Biodiversity Conservation and Forestry Programs, FY2018 Results and Funding

We depend on nature to provide clean water, fresh air, healthy soils, and plant pollination; declines in biodiversity and ecosystems threaten to undermine progress toward many global development goals for poverty, hunger, health, oceans, and land. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, USAID worked in 57 countries around the world to conserve biodiversity, leverage private-sector funds, fight conservation crime, and support sustainable fisheries, all of which help local communities build resilience and shape their futures.

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