ICFC is joining forces with several other conservation organizations to purchase 2298 hectares of the Sierra Caral Cloud Forest in Guatemala. This site is one of the most biodiverse forest remnants in Central America. It protects nine endangered and seven endemic amphibian species and at least 120 Neotropical migratory bird species, including 33 priority species with declining populations.   Most of the funds have been raised, but we're not quite there. (Help us complete this vital land purchase.)

Working with the Amazon Conservation Association, ICFC is creating a trust fund to secure the salaries of four park guards to provide basic protection of the Los Amigos Conservation Concession (LACC), which conserves the Los Amigos watershed and 146,000 ha of biodiverse old-growth forest in the Madre de Dios region of southeastern Peru. It indirectly protects a far greater area of tropical forest and an area with uncontacted indigenous people. At $7.14/ha, this is a superb conservation investment.  (Donations welcome!)

ICFC is one of several organizations (that include Conservation International and the Environmental Defense Fund) engaged in a long-term program to strengthen capacity of the Kayapó indigenous people to protect their officially ratified territories which span 110,000 km² of tropical forest in Brazil's southeastern Amazon region.

Mali's desert population of elephants has evolved a unique nomadic strategy that includes a migration circuit of 600 km (featured in the National Geographic series Great Migrations) to cope with the widely dispersed and variable food and water resources in the Sahel area of Africa.

This project is securing the future of this northern-most elephant population by reducing human-elephant conflict and putting in place lasting protection of key dry season and migration habitats

This program builds on one of the world's most successful habitat restoration and conservation efforts — Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. ACG protects 163,000 ha of lowland forest, rain forest, cloud forest, and a marine sector. ICFC helps train and support local community members as "parataxonomists", who both guard the park and contribute to the biological inventory for ACG. We also support an after-school program in marine biology and ecology for children from a neighbouring fishing community.

This work effectively promotes the conservation of the endangered maleo (Megacephalon maleo) and marine turtles that nest in the Tompotika area of Sulawesi, while building a local foundation for conservation in Sulawesi.

This project is aimed at consolidating and strengthening the protection and management of the Abrolhos network of marine protected areas in Brazil, which will serve as a model for improving marine conservation in Brazil and beyond.

The Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw is found in only one place on Earth: the Beni Savannas of Bolivia. This project is aimed at protecting and increasing the Blue-throated Macaw population at the Barba Azul Nature Reserve in this area of Bolivia.

Provision of infrastructure at the Jorupe Reserve

This project (now completed) consisted of ground work in preparation for a biodiversity reserve network consisting of priority cloud forest sites (Morningside and others) in the highlands of southwestern Sri Lanka. This reserve system is being created to protect threatened species, notably amphibians, lizards and freshwater crabs and to provide other environmental benefits.