Panama’s Darién Gap sees forest loss drop 90% through smart conservation

In Panama’s Darién Gap, one of the planet’s most biodiverse rainforests, a mix of political will, low-cost technology and shared funding has sharply reduced illegal logging and mining. By boosting ranger numbers, enforcing a logging moratorium and using tools like satellite alerts and cloud-based monitoring, forest loss inside the park fell by nearly 90% in just three years — a rare conservation success with global implications.

‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers | Panama | The Guardian