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The WeMUNIZE program in Nigeria, significantly disrupted by aid cuts, used digital record keeping and community engagement to increase early childhood immunizations. Image by KC Nwakalor for USAID/Digital Development Communications via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdown

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Mar 2026

Mangroves on Vanua Levu Island, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

60 years of buried lessons on conservation projects from USAID have been saved

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Feb 2026

In this 2016 image, then-U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power (left), and then- Cameroonian Minister of Forestry and Wildlife Philip Ngole Ngwese (right), attend the destruction of some 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and ivory products.

African environment programs still try to fill funding gap since USAID freeze

Fanta Mabo 11 Dec 2025

A farmer cuts cacao pods from the tree in Colombia.

Conservation can emphasize human well-being to navigate its current funding crisis (commentary)

Tiger on a rock.

Amid challenges, Nepal plans its latest tiger & rhino counts

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Oct 2025

After USAID cut, Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area aims for self-sufficiency

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2025

A reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata)

USAID cut curbs hopes at Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area

Solomon Yimer 30 May 2025

US funding shortfall halts Nepal’s rhino census, sparks debate over methods

Deepak Adhikari 29 May 2025

Community rangers guard elephants in Sera Conservancy, Northern Rangelands, Kenya.

Wildlife crime crackdown in jeopardy worldwide after US funding cuts

Carolyn Cowan, Philip Jacobson, Spoorthy Raman, Charles Mpaka, Hans Nicholas Jong, Gerald Flynn 22 May 2025

Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. Image © Christian Braga / Greenpeace.

Pause to USAID already having impacts on community conservation in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 24 Feb 2025

Budget constraints limit wildlife protection in major Nepali road project

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Aug 2024

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