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Recent Stories

	Pollinators: A Key Piece of the Development Puzzle June 24, 2022 During World Pollinator Week, we are celebrating the important role that pollinators play in contributing to USAID’s development goals, policies, and objectives, and how USAID programs support the cultivation of healthy environments in which pollinators can thrive. From sustaining natural ecosystems to providing nourishing food to income-generating opportunities, these small but mighty critters are not only vital to the integrity of our global food systems, but  also make valuable contributions to our global economy.
	Four Ways the USAID ROUTES Partnership Helped the Air Transport Industry Recognize and Stop Wildlife Crime April 26, 2022 The illegal wildlife trade is not just a threat to animals and communities dependent on wildlife-friendly livelihoods—it is a threat to the air transport sector. Learn how USAID’s ROUTES Partnership helped equip actors in the air transport sector with the tools, resources, and partnerships to recognize and stop wildlife trafficking.
	Fighting Wildlife Crime with Tech January 12, 2022 In 2014, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge to reward science and technology innovations combating wildlife trafficking. More than five years later, find out what the winners have learned and achieved since.
	Five Innovative Findings from USAID’s Investments in Conservation Enterprises August 31, 2021 The sustainable use of nature’s resources is essential to long-term economic growth around the world. For decades, USAID has prioritized economic opportunities that also foster healthy lands, oceans, plants, and animals.
	Connecting Human and Forest Health in West Africa May 19, 2021 By investing in research and on-the-ground conservation action, USAID is building understanding of the Ebola virus and addressing the root causes of disease transmission.
	From Bait to Plate: The Power of Electronic Catch Documentation and Traceability May 5, 2021 The Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability’s useful infographic shows how seafood moves “from bait to plate” and how electronic catch documentation and traceability can improve the safety and security of this process.
	Enhancing Environmental Equality: Promoting the Rights of Indigenous People April 28, 2021 In USAID’s partner countries, the most vulnerable communities and people often rely the most on the environment for food, jobs, and security. USAID is working to empower these groups and to support their roles as environmental decision makers.
	One Health: Connecting the Dots Between Human Health and the Environment April 20, 2021 USAID and the international community are working together diligently—in a time of global climate change, pandemic, and biodiversity loss—to ensure the well-being of people, animals, and the environment on which we all depend.
	Celebrating World Wildlife Day around the Globe April 8, 2021 On March 3, USAID’s Missions highlighted key ways we are working with our partner countries to advance wildlife conservation, forest management and protection, global climate change mitigation goals, and sustainable livelihoods.
	New Knowledge Portal for Biodiversity and Development March 30, 2021 BiodiversityLinks, USAID’s newly refreshed and relaunched knowledge sharing portal for biodiversity conservation, features key USAID tools and resources as well as new evidence and learning.
	Enhancing Environmental Equality: Addressing Gender-Based Violence December 8, 2020 The most vulnerable communities and people often rely the most on the environment for food, jobs, and security. USAID is working to empower these groups and to support their roles as environmental decision-makers.
	USAID partners recognized at Environmental Finance Impact Awards 2020 October 29, 2020 Two members of USAID’s Partnership Platform for the Amazon have won prizes in the specialized media Environmental Finance IMPACT 2020 Awards.
	An Unprecedented Encounter and Exchange Between Indigenous Cultures to Enhance Biodiversity Conservation September 11, 2020 In Colombia, USAID’s Natural Wealth Program brought two indigenous communities together for the first time to discuss the recovery of indigenous knowledge and approaches to territorial governance.
	Women in the wild: Meet the female ecoguards protecting Liberia’s forests July 17, 2020 At a recruitment and training program for community ecoguard candidates in 2018, 16 out of the 20 participants were women. Today, these women have contributed to protecting the rich resources of the Grebo-Krahn National Park.
	Tipping the Scales: Adopting fair trade fishing practices in Indonesia March 18, 2020 Sarno Lajiwa leads a fishers' association participating in a USAID program that advances fair trade in Indonesia. USAID is introducing new income opportunities that allow people to move toward improved stewardship of their fisheries.
	Foreign Service National Spotlight: Monica Romo December 9, 2019 As a child in Peru, Monica Romo traveled throughout the country, visiting coastal provinces in the west and seeing the Andes mountain range. Then, in high school, she visited the Amazon region for the first time and found her future career direction.
	Peace, Security, and Conservation on Central Africa’s Radios November 13, 2019 In northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and eastern Central African Republic (CAR), high-frequency radios are helping to cultivate peace, security, and, more recently, conservation.
	Hope for Tigers in Bangladesh August 5, 2019 In Bangladesh’s Sundarbans—the world’s largest mangrove forest—every tiger counts. And a report from the country’s Forest Department recently revealed that the tiger count has increased by eight percent in three years.