ABOUT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
People need nature—and for over 30 years, Conservation International has worked to protect it. Through cutting-edge science, innovative policy and global reach, they empower people to protect the nature that we all rely on for food, fresh water and livelihoods.
Around the world, Conservation International works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that forest provide to humanity. Forest are vital to human life and our planet’s vast biodiversity—and to the fight against climate change. Yet they are being destroyed at an alarming rate.
Conservation International strives to protect forest around the world, working directly with the communities who live in, and depend on, these forest. Conservation International uses innovative tools, technologies and approaches to prioritize the most important forest and the benefits they provide to people and wildlife; to quantify the value of those benefits for decision-makers; to protect them sustainably for the long term; and to monitor their ongoing protection and health.