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🌿 Happy International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem! 🌿 Madagascar’s #mangroves, known as “blue forests,” are not just breathtaking landscapes, but crucial lifelines. They teem with marine life, sustain thousands of livelihoods, shield communities from storms, and play a vital role in carbon storage, benefiting both wildlife and people alike. Yet, these precious ecosystems are at risk. Deforestation and over-fishing have already destroyed or degraded over 20% of Madagascar's mangroves since 1990, triggering erosion and releasing stored carbon into the air. To commemorate this day we’d like to spotlight our partner organisation Blue Ventures, which empowers communities along the west coast of Madagascar to govern mangroves and associated fisheries effectively, manage them sustainably, and preserve them for future generations. Photos by Garth Cripps / Blue Ventures.

🐎 🐂 🌲 🦅 Take a journey to the Iberian Highlands and discover how a comeback of wild nature is breathing new life into a landscape that was once largely forgotten. This beautiful short documentary by Emmanuel Rondeau highlights how our partners Rewilding Europe and Fundación Española de Renaturalización - Rewilding Spain bring back lost species such as wild Przewalski's horses and work with local authorities, organisations and people to revitalize the region's ecosystems and economy. https://lnkd.in/eCHRcCrf #Rewilding

📽 🐎 🌿 Coming soon: Breathing New Life into the Iberian Highlands. This Tuesday 23 July at 5pm CEST, a new documentary film about the efforts of our partners Rewilding Europe and Fundación Española de Renaturalización - Rewilding Spain to revitalize Spain's Iberian Highlands will premiere online. The film takes viewers on a journey this once-forgotten corner of Spain and shows how rewilding is transforming lives and ecosystems. Learn more about this work here on Rewilding Europe's website, and stay tuned for the link to the film tomorrow.

Follow the team of our partner, Wildlife Conservation Society Mongolia, on their recent field trip to survey populations of the Mongolian gazelle across almost half the country!

Communities in parts of South Africa and Zambia have traditionally used wild leopard skins as regalia in their cultural and religious festivals. Today, with African leopard populations under increasing pressure from habitat loss and conflicts with people, this practice has become an added threat to the species' survival. Working with local community organisations and churches, our partner PANTHERA has found an innovative solution to this problem: replacing real wild leopard skins with synthetic alternatives, produced locally in women-led tailoring centres. As a result of this initiative, the use of authentic wild cat skins for ceremonies has decreased by more than 50% in their two main partner communities, and leopard populations in the regions appear to have stabilised 🐆 🐾. Read more on our website: https://lnkd.in/egkHr_Ya

We are thrilled to present Cartier for Nature’s latest Annual Report. It highlights the work of our 25 partner organisations, whose efforts to conserve and restore nature provide inspiration and hope in the face of the challenges humanity is confronted with. The report introduces new partners that joined our portfolio during the last 12 months (incl. BirdLife International, Fauna & Flora , Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco, Global Diversity Foundation, GORONGOSA RESTORATION PROJECT, #IRDNC and Wildlife Conservation Society Mongolia). It also takes you on a journey to some of our longer-standing partners and sheds light on their impact on people and nature – from #Soralo, which empowers Maasai herders to continue managing their ancestral land sustainably and coexist with wildlife, to Planet Indonesia, whose work helps local communities in Borneo push back against deforestation and wildlife loss. Read the full report on our website: https://lnkd.in/e-AmCAJa

We are proud to share our latest Annual Report, highlighting the work of our partners for a thriving earth that will continue to inspire and nurture us. Follow the link in Cartier's post to read the full report.

After decades of deforestation, #Ethiopia’s once abundant forests have mostly been reduced to small, scattered fragments around the country’s thousands of Ethiopian Orthodox Churches. While these Church Forests are considered sacred, some of them are degenerating due to fuel wood cutting and overgrazing, with a consequent loss of genetic diversity. Amid ongoing conflict and hardship in the country, local nonprofit organisation #ORDA Ethiopia continues to work with local communities to #protect and #regenerate these remaining #churchforests in Amhara province, with the aim of connecting them and eventually using them as the starting points for larger-scale reforestation of the surrounding landscape 🌳🌳🌳🌳 . Find more about their inspiring #conservation work on our website:

🦒 It's #WorldGiraffeDay! 🦒 According to estimates, there are around 117,000 giraffes left in the world today. While this may seem like a fairly large number, these iconic animals are under threat. Their habitat continues to shrink as open range land is converted to farms, developed or fenced off. Scientists fear that populations may have dropped by as much as 30 to 40% in the last 30 years alone. Several of our partners work with local communities in Eastern and Southern Africa to conserve prime giraffe areas - including #SORALO in Kenya, Honeyguide Foundation in Tanzania, It's Wild! Foods by COMACO in Zambia and #IRDNC in Namibia. Their work offers a beacon of hope and a path towards a sustainable future where people and wildlife can coexist and thrive. Photo by Ben Buckland / Cartier for Nature.

#Kenya’s South Rift region is home to 300,000 #Maasai pastoralists as well as large populations of lions, cheetahs, wild dogs and elephants. Traditionally, the Maasai used to manage this shared landscape communally and sustainably - but as human populations grow and cultural norms erode, more and more of their land is sold and fenced off, blocking migratory corridors, shrinking the habitat available to wildlife and restricting the mobility of the remaining traditional pastoralists. Our partner organisation #SORALO was established by a group of local Maasai to halt this fragmentation of rangelands and preserve their unique culture of coexistence. The organisation works to secure communities’ collective tenure over their natural resources, work with them on reaching consensus over their use, and establish community-led wildlife conservation areas across the region to ensure that people and wildlife can continue to thrive side by side. Learn more on our website: https://lnkd.in/eaWqVK5Y Images by Ben Buckland for Cartier for Nature.