This archive tracks meaningful progress in protecting wildlife and preserving land — from habitat restoration and endangered species recoveries to new protected areas and conservation policy wins. These stories focus on what’s working, grounded in evidence and reported with care.
Although individual countries designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of ‘wild nature’ for posterity and as a symbol of national pride. As of 2023, there are over 6500 national parks worldwide.
In 1662, English writer John Evelyn stood before London’s Royal Society and warned that England’s forests were vanishing under the weight of shipbuilding, iron-smelting, and careless felling. His paper Sylva called not just for restraint but for active replanting — one of the earliest formal Western arguments that nature must be tended, not simply taken.
