Global challenges require global solutions. That's why Nature Needs Half works to inspire others to collaborate on behalf of nature. In this way, region by region, we can protect half of Earth in time to end the Sixth Mass Extinction. Discover below more about your country and what others are doing to save our wild planet!
Only by working in the international policy sphere can we improve opportunities for protected areas at a global scale, shifting momentum for nature from the top-down. In this regard, international...
Russia is a tale of two ecological stories. East of the central Ural Mountains, taiga forests and horizon spanning steppes are healthy and intact, falling in the Nature Could Reach...
Slovakia’s protection of the Carpathian mountains, Eastern Europe’s western most mountain range, is consistent with European Union directives and has preserved critical habitat for large carnivores, like the wolf. Challenges...
South Africa is divided almost equally into three separate protection level categories. The northwestern deserts are still largely intact, and therefore in the “could reach half” category. The northeastern grasslands...
Spain’s network of protected areas provides valuable economic opportunities for the country. But much of the natural habitat outside of these areas has been degraded, and now there are few...
In Sri Lanka, nature is at the center of cultural symbolism, state power, and economic activity. As human communities learn how to balance reverence for nature and a desire for...
India is one of the world's most biodiverse countries; it is also one of the most imperiled. This is why Nature Needs Half is working in this region, specifically, for the...
Read MoreSwitzerland’s wildareas are a cornerstone of this alpine country's national identity. Beginning in the early 20th century, Swiss conservationists labored to establish some of the best protected nature reserves in...
In Sweden, nature is managed to benefit economic ends and support biodiversity even as evidence suggests that wild areas retain a higher variety of wildlife than managed areas. Increasing the...
Political and economic isolation after the Vietnam War kept many of this country’s forests – those untouched by napalm – pristine. But with the economic openings of the 1990s, Vietnam...
Almost evenly divided between lands west of the Mississippi that fall mostly into the Nature Could Reach Half category and those that are east of the great river which are...
Nature in the United Kingdom is imperiled. That wildlands have suffered on the island home of 66 million people and the epicenter of the industrial revolution comes as no surprise....
Turkey is the epicenter of three biodiversity hotspots, making this region one of global significance. The erosion of Turkey’s environmental laws are a tragedy of epic proportions, and have culminated...