In this blog, you'll find links to recent peer-reviewed research produced by the Wildlife Works Biodiversity and Carbon Science research teams. Together, these papers reflect our commitment to rigorous, field-based research that informs wildlife conservation, climate action, and human well-being.

Forest Reference Emission Levels (FRELs) underpin REDD+ results-based payments, yet most still rely on methods that overlook forest degradation and mask true emissions. Evidence from multiple biomes shows degradation accounts for up to three-quarters of forest emissions. This blog explores how direct biomass measurement using LiDAR and multisensor remote sensing enables accurate, auditable, and rapidly updatable FRELs aligned with UNFCCC and IPCC guidance.

Wildlife Works’ Indonesia Country Director Erlinda Ekaputri’s moving essay on the region's recent floods, and how she finds hope amidst the devastation.

This year, Wildlife Works hosted and participated in more than a dozen sessions across Belém. Together with Indigenous partners and allies, we showed how territorial governance, community-led bioeconomies, and integrity in carbon and biodiversity markets can fill the gaps left by global politics. In this blog learn Below are the five main takeaways from COP30, and how our events and partners brought climate solutions to life.

For years, carbon accounting overlooked emissions from forest degradation, leaving a major blind spot in REDD+. Emerging technologies now make it possible to capture this data accurately, ensuring transparent baselines and equitable climate finance. Learn more in this explainer blog.

Learn more about the events Wildlife Works team members will be speaking and attending at COP30.

A key activity of the Kasigau Corridor REDD+ Project is strategically working to prevent uncontained wildfires. Thanks to the dedication and vigilant work of our team on the ground, uncontrolled blazes in the area are rapidly suppressed or prevented in the first place. In this blog Evans Mwachoki, the Deputy Head Ranger, tells the story of a recent fire that the Wildlife Works team quickly suppressed.

The Gerbang Barito REDD+ project has started a “Roots and Words” writing competition and series of workshops to create an inclusive space for community members to document their lived experiences, customary knowledge, and their people’s relationships with nature. Through this initiative, community members have gained confidence and a deepened sense of responsibility over their REDD+ project.

In this edition of Valuing the Priceless, we spotlight our Founder Mike Korchinsky’s recent interview with QCI, cover various signs of momentum for the voluntary carbon market such as a new business coalition formed to mobilize $100 billion for avoided emissions by 2035, discuss the Article 6.4 debate, and recap our lessons learned at Climate Week NYC.

Learn more about the events Wildlife Works team members will be speaking and attending at Climate Week NYC 2025.

In our latest newsletter, discover the surprising link between trees and the evolution of the human mind, how the Kasigau Corridor is enabling community members to dream of better futures, the hidden role of seed dispersers in improving carbon sequestration in forests, and insights from Fabio Rohe, a world-renowned primatologist and conservation scientist on the Wildlife Works Brazil team.

In this month’s spotlight meet Fabio Rohe PhD, Wildlife Works Biodiversity Senior Specialist for Brazil. From discovering new species to creating community-based biodiversity monitoring initiatives that have helped save millions of hectares of forest across Brazil, Fabio’s rich experience makes him an indispensable part of our team.