In Kuala Lumpur on June 21, YTL Corporation announced a $2M gift to support “YTL Fellows for a RarePlanet” – which will enable more than one hundred local leaders across Asia to participate in Rare’s training program ove...

Rare Conservation Fellows lead community-based campaigns to change the way people relate to nature. With two years of training and support from Rare, each Fellow inspires his or her community with the motivation and means ...

As Rare continues to work with local communities in over 50 countries to protect threatened species and habitat, finding a charismatic and beloved animal to represent these threats is critical to any conservation campaig...

Rare Pride Program Manager Brooke Sadowsky travels to the Onon River Pride campaign site in Mongolia. This is Brooke's second visit to the site but there were several additions, such as the Taimen ...

Recipients of the Orvis 2010 Spring  catalog and visitors to its website are being asked to support Pride efforts on the Isla de San Pedro Martir Biosphere Reserve, Mexico to address overfishing and to protect the c...

Tingting Yin blogs from a community-led Pride campaign site in rural China that  is inspiring people to adopt more energy-efficient cooking practices in order to reduce deforestation and the d...

Why is it so hard to make lasting change?  
The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed ...

Rare’s Program for Sustainable Fishing Gaining Attention in Philippines

Rare staff recently returned from a partner recruitment workshop in the Philipp...

“It is without question the epicenter of marine biodiversity for the planet.”

While Rare continues its work in the Coral Triangle, Mark Erdmann, Senior Advisor to Conservation International Indonesia’s marine...

On November 12, 2009, Hunchun City celebrated its first “Siberian Tiger Festival” with the help of Rare, the Hunchun Nature Reserve, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS-China), the Hunchun Tourism Bureau and the local Hun...

Pride campaign manager, Brooke Nevitt launched a Pride campaign to protect coral reefs on the tiny island of Saipan, in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).

This campaign, recently comple...

Rare is hiring for positions in our Arlington, Indonesia, and Guadalajara offices. We also have several internship positions at the Arlington office. If you’re interested in learning more please visit our Jobs & In...

Between December 11 and 21, visitors to Club Penguin, one of the largest and fastest-growing online virtual worlds for kids, can help decid...

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As international politicians, economists, and conservationists discuss and debate using forest-based carbon trading to address the world’s climate change c...

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Laney Thornton, a passionate conservationist and long-time Rare supporter, just returned with his family from a five-day visit to a Rare Pride campaign underway on the island of Borneo.  Laney’s family witnessed fir...

Rare's  Vice President, Latin America, Keith Alger contributed to The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy  article Climate Change and Conservation in Brazil: CGE Evaluation of Health and Wealth I...

Rare will offset the 744 metric tons of carbon it emitted during the 2008 fiscal year by distributing 6,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) to the local communities at some of our campaign sites in Asia. •full article

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On the tropical, volcanic slopes of Subing Mountain, half a world away from the...

The virtual kids' community of Club Penguin is eager to help kids around the world learn how to protect the forests, waterways, and species in their own backyards.

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This issue of the contemporary art quarterly Art Lies features artists responses to the Human/Nature in Art Collaboration Organized by the University of California, Ber­keley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive,...

Gildas Andriamalamala traveled to a Rare-sponsored workshop in Fiji to speak about local reef protection strategies and his Pride campaign along the coast of Madagascar. 

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­After nearly canceling the event several weeks earlier due to the outbreak of the H1N1 virus in Mexico City, Rare staff and Pride campaign­ alumni persevered to launch the Latin America Pride Alumni Network in Guada...

Rare's online case studies demonstrate how our programs and methodology help local communities reduce environmental threats and create sustainable livelihood alternatives for residents whose current practices are harming...

Bear Grylls, adventurer, author, and TV star of Discovery Channel’s Man vs. Wild, recently said the following about Rare:

"Rare is at the forefront of helping prot...

Clean Skies TV recently interviewed Rare CEO Brett Jenks on the upcoming climate talks in Barcelona, Bangkok and Copenhagen, as well as Rare's role in reducing de...

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports on The “Wilson Challenge,” the current Rare donor who has generously stepped up to the plate, and Mr. Wilson's unique approach to philanthropy.

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Rare’s Masters in Communication for conservationists has recently been featured in the news!  Find out why people are tal...

Legendary Wall Street Hedge-fund Manager--Robert Wilson--promises to match Rare’s largest donor in 2009, with no limit.

Conservationist and retired Wall Street Hedge-fu...

Rare Vice President of Asia, Nigel Sizer, travels to Hunchun, China, where Rare Pride campaign manager Jianmin Lang ...

Rare and its 200+ partners in 50 countries are changing the way people relate to their natural environment.

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Returning Home: Turning the Lessons of the Classroom into a Campaign for Environmental Change

So what’s it like to return from nine weeks of intensive coursework at Georgetow...

In his recent cover story for TIME magazine, Bryan Walsh takes the reader to Madagascar, known as a global conservation hot spot — a term for a region that is very biodiverse and particularly threatened. ...

Hirmen Syofyanto, who finished his Derawan Islands, Indonesia Pride campaign in 2007, is now the project leader for Savu Sea Marine National Park, the largest marine park in Asia. He was recently interviewed in The Jak...

The ripple effects of the swine flu have been far reaching, touching the lives of Rare Pride campaign managers, partners and staff on the ground in Mexico and across Latin America.  Despite these set-backs Rare st...

Rare is looking for a Director for our Pride program in Latin America

Our frequent blogger and photojournalist Jason Houston is back on the road – this time...

Meet the 9 Stars, or Pride campaign manag...

Communicating for Nature:
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Along with our partners, Rare is proud to congratulate Pride Alumnus Elizabeth Cabrera Lopez (click for video) of the organization

Rare plans to launch 9 conservation campaigns in February, 2009. These "Pride" campaigns  aim to foster conservation practices in local c...

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What's green, lives on an island off the eastern coast of Africa, and is nearly extinct?...

Rare, with local partners around the world, will launch 29 conservation campaigns this fall. These campaigns focus on direct threats including marine issues, illegal logging, and shorebird migration, just to name ...

Paloma Chávez, Rare's Recruiting and Alumni Manager, recenly ventured to Barcelona for the International Union for Conservation Nature (IUCN) conference and was•full article

Rare, and our approach to conservation was featured in the article "Cultural Touch" in t...

San Diego radio station KPBS, an NPR affliate, recently featured "Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet."<...

Inter Press Service, a news agency, recently featured

Rare and two leading U.S. museums have sent some of the world’s top artis...

Fisheries Fellows, Rare’s pilot project, launched in 2006 with the goal of offering technical assistance to small-scale fishers and helping develop partnerships with local conservation groups facilitating sustainable f...

Rare congratulates Pride partners Hirmen Sofyanto, and La Ode Saleh Hanan  on their recent promotions at The Nature Conse...

“If you don’t love it — you won’t take care of it,” expressed Yazmin Yesenia Benitez Partida, while reflecting on the goal behind her recently completed Pride campaign. Yazmin, working with Mexico...

Recently, eight of Rare’s partners graduated from the Pride program, with ceremonies taking place in Mexico City in June. The following are highlights from each campaign — the successes, challenges, and plans for long-...

La Ruta Moskitia, an alliance of five community-owned ecotourism enterprises in Honduras’s Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve, has been awarded the highly coveted World Tourism & Travel Council (WTTC) Tourism for Tomorr...

Rare China recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Southwest Forestry University (SWFU) in Kunming, Yunnan, China. Rare and SWFU will now work together to establish Rare’s fourth global training center...

Rare recently held its first recruiting workshop in China, drawing 34 participants from eight nature reserves and national parks throughout the country. The two-day workshop was co-sponsored by Rare, The Nature Conserv...

Rare is reaching out to 20 local conservationists from five nations, representing WWF, WCS, and the College of African Wildlife Management at a social marketing and recruiting workshop in Tanzania. While in Africa, Rar...

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>> Read the article on La Ruta Moskitia in Virgin Holidays magazine

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The latest issue of The Nature Conservancy magazine features Luis Sánchez Samudio's Rare Pride campaign in Panama.

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The China Environmental Promotion Association of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA-CECPA), today signed a deal with the US-based conservation group Rare, on Oct. 29 in Beijing, to promote a sea ch...

Rare is gearing up to launch new initiatives in the Asia Pacific region, and for the first time, spread Rare Pride throughout the beautiful and biodiverse country of Malaysia.  Malaysia’s three sta...

Morne Farmer’s campaign to protect the threatened and endemic Armadillo lizard took place in rural Namaqualand, the world’s only semi-arid biodiversity hotspot that is truly a global biodiversity treasu...

Take a visual tour of the stunning landscapes and inspiring conservation captured by award-winning photojournalist Jason Houston.   <...

Some Rare Pride campaign managers create conservation impacts in their community that are felt for decades.  In Samoa, Toni Tipamaa is one of those conservationists.  In 1993-1994, Toni’s...

In the developed world, water is so ubiquitous that the average person rarely thinks about it—unless he or she is thirsty, and then it is simply a matter of turning on a tap or reaching for...

The Equator Initiative announced the finalists for its 2006 Equator Prize, honoring 25 extraordinary efforts to harness the equatorial region’s biodiversity to lessen the widespread poverty afflicting t...

Rare is among 43 winners of the 2007 Fast Company / Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards. The award honors nonprofits, or “social entrepreneurs,” across the nation that combine...

Rare’s global partners gather at 2nd Annual to celebrate the launch of a global grassroots conservation movement

On October 23 in New York City, Rare held its second annual benefit event at the Central Park Boath...

In May, Rare launched its third university training program, in Bogor, Indonesia. Rare already has two programs, in the UK and Mexico, to serve English- and Spanish-speaking conservationists running environmental aware...

Conservationists are used to hearing good and bad news, often mixed together. Occasionally, however, there is some great news, and Rare is proud to have been a part one of those positive stories: the official launch an...

What started as an entrepreneurial dream in 2001, has become a reality for 19 Guatemalan families living in three communities around Tikal National Park--a UNESCO-designated World Heritage site and protected area that sh...

Rare Among Nation's Top Social Entrepreneurs In The 2006 Fast Company / Monitor Group Social Capitalist

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