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Farmers from the Urumarov village hold up the fruits of their labor. © Allison Bleaney

Sweet Success

With help from the Conservancy, the Adelberts Conservation Cooperative Society has rallied local farmers around conservation. Now, they're producing the first fair trade-certified cocoa in the country.

Pere net fishing, Papua New Guinea © Simon Foale

Hope for Fish and Tribal Communities

The Conservancy is racing to help communities around the world protect the oceans’ nurseries — coral reefs. In remote Pere village on Manus Island, we find a story of precarious hope.

Villagers do a traditional singsing welcoming visitors from The Nature Conservancy to the village of Turutapa located in the Adelbert Mountain Range of Papua New Guinea's Madang Province. © Mark Godfrey

Water for Conservation

The Conservancy is helping communities in Papua New Guinea obtain rainwater collection tanks and develop land use and management plans that set aside large areas for conservation.

Forest planner, Suryadi Mentemas tags trees at the number four concession logging area in the Kalimantan region of Borneo, Indonesia where the logging company he works for has been given permit to proceed with reduced impact logging (RIL). © Bridget Besaw

Creating New Solutions for Asia-Pacific’s Forests

RAFT is working at all levels to make Asia-Pacific forestry more sustainable and responsible.

Annisah Sapul, a community conservation specialist with the Conservancy's Kimbe Bay project in Papua New Guinea. © TNC

Meet Annisah

Find out how interning for the Kimbe Bay program changed a conservationist's life.

Manawan Pokakes © TNC

Stories from Pere

Ponawan Pokakes tells of the traditional ways of the Titan tribe and Manuai Matawan a Conservancy Community Conservation Coordinator and native of Pere village talk about why spawning reefs are so special.