Meet Ramona Sari, a community member at the Gerbang Barito REDD+ Project in Indonesia. She won the project’s first writing competition “Akar dan Kata” (Roots and Words). The goal of the competition was simple but meaningful: to create space for inclusive participation while encouraging local voices to document lived experiences, traditional knowledge, and the ties between people and nature.

Wildlife Works Reading Club, known locally as Carbon School part of the broader community engagement strategy of the Gerbang Barito REDD+ Project. By introducing environmental themes early, the program invests in future stewards of village forests. It strengthens learning spaces that belong to the community and grow with it.

The community engagement workshops at the Gerbang Barito REDD+ project have started including free child daycare, greatly increasing participation from women. This small step creates a space for more focused, and equal participation by women, while demonstrating that listening to the community also means changing the way activities are designed.

At the Gerbang Barito REDD+ Project in Indonesia, Social and Biodiversity Impact Assessment (SBIA) workshops provide a space for communities to discuss the future of their forests. Through simple questions and the visual method of a designing a tree of hope, residents discuss their dreams, challenges, and conservation solutions together. SBIA workshops are key for meaningful community engagement in voluntary carbon market projects.

In this blog, learn more about the community-based recruitment process used to create patrol teams, that are now ready to monitor, protect, and report activities in their village forests at the Gerbang Barito REDD+ Project in Indonesia.

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.

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.

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 rural Indonesia, where access to education is limited, a reading club becomes a place of hope. Guided by volunteer teacher Ibu Husna, children learn, play, and grow their love for nature with support from the Wildlife Works Gerbang Barito REDD+ Project.

In this blog we dive into the four interconnected components of our Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) implementation model, each grounded in real-world case studies from Wildlife Works projects around the world.

Learn more about community-based  biodiversity monitoring, a fundamental tool for ecosystem conservation that creates opportunities for  communities within REDD+ Projects. We spotlight Félix Ferrer, a biodiversity monitor at the Maloca Vaupés ASATRIZY REDD+ Project

In Brazil, we are in the process of conducting  Free, Prior  and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes with Indigenous peoples living in the Brazilian Amazon.  For Wildlife Works, FPIC is  the foundation of a long-term partnership between the community and the REDD+ project developer. FPIC is  a process of capacity  building, listening, and co-creation. Learn more about this process in this blog.

Through the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent  (FPIC) process, diverse parts of the community members came together, from leaders, to women, youth, and elders,  to discuss and decide on the REDD+ Project in Gerbang  Barito.

As part of the Free, Prior and Informed Consent process to increase community member understanding of REDD+, we created educational games

In this spotlight meet Marilyn Elembe, a Facilitator for Women's Activities at the Wildlife Works Mai Ndombe REDD+ Project.

In this thoughtful reflection, Hadi Prayitno, Stakeholder Engagement Manager at Wildlife Works Indonesia, shares his experiences.

This year, Wildlife Works facilitated a pivotal community delegation Colombia REDD+ Projects to Biodiversity COP16.

Through a partnership with the Mai Ndombe REDD+ Project, Jeanine Iyemebien is a driving force behind women's economic independence.