Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation gave $1 million to a Seychelles debt-swap deal; by 2020, the wider project had helped the island nation protect 410,000 sq km of ocean, an area larger than Germany

The debt conversion was supported by several private funders, including the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Leonardo DiCaprio…

In 1938, a Texas family bought a ranch near Austin; 87 years later, a 202-acre conservation deal added protection to a 6,600-acre landscape that holds 10% of the Barton Creek watershed

Shield Ranch Barton CreekPhoto credit: @jvailphotography/ Instagram In 1938, Fred and Vera Shield of San Antonio…

A conservation group bought nearly 2,000 acres of South Carolina forest before development could reach it; the land has now been transferred to the US government and permanently added to Sumter National Forest

Representative image from Canva In a quiet but decisive win for conservation, a 1,950-acre tract of…

In the 1940s, James Cagney bought 500 acres of land in California as a private retreat; decades later, it became a wildlife haven |

James Cagney and the tale of his California treat which decades later was preserved as a…

In 2017, a wildfire advanced toward Roslyn, Washington; nine years later the town has deliberately burned 500+ acres of forest to build a protective shield against future fires

In Washington, a team of igniters are walking across the forest with canisters filled with a…