A Rocha International

05/06/2026

Climate change goes far beyond the environment. It affects public health, economies, infrastructure, and communities worldwide.

Over the past 50 years, extreme weather events have caused more than 2 million deaths and US$4.3 trillion in economic losses. At the same time, can bring tangible benefits to people and planet: from healthy forests, to clean air and hopeful attitudes.

It’s time to act : Climate Stewards helps you make a difference locally and globally. Visit climatestewards.org

04/06/2026

Five Amur Falcons in Kenya. The first springtime Bobolink sighting in Ontario, Canada. A critically endangered Palila in Hawai’i. Exotic parrots in California. These are some of the exciting bird sighting from this year’s !

Read more about this year’s birding adventures ⤵️

‘It was Jesus Christ himself in the Sermon on the Mount who told us to be birdwatchers,’ John Stott exclaimed in his ‘orni-theological’ treatise, The Birds Our Teachers. A dear friend of […]

02/06/2026

A global partnership for global travelers: A Rocha France and A Rocha Ghana are joining forces to protect migratory birds!

In 2025, teams from A Rocha France made two visits to Keta Lagoon to inventory bird species and train local teams in bird identification and monitoring.

As part of the ProBioDev project, A Rocha Ghana is implementing a new system to support local bird monitoring, promoting eco-friendly livelihoods such as birdwatching tourism, and supporting mangrove restoration and ecological farming.

We love seeing A Rocha organizations support each other! Through this joint effort, A Rocha is conserving critical habitats while building systems where human communities can thrive.

Read more ➡️ https://arocha.org/en/the-birds-that-connect-our-world/

01/06/2026

Reefs are often called the 'rainforests of the sea.' About 25% of the ocean's fish depend on healthy coral reefs. Fishes and other organisms shelter, find food, reproduce, and rear their young in the many nooks and crannies formed by corals.

Today, on World Reef Day, we celebrate the work of marine teams that work towards the restoration of coral reefs through scientific research. In Kenya, A Rocha is working on finding coral that is resistant to bleaching, planting nurseries and replanting them on affected coral reefs in the hope that they thrive and restore the habitat of several marine life.

29/05/2026

For many people, a close encounter with an insect leads to a quick departure by one or both or a summary ex*****on, most often of the non-human party. If you recognize these scenarios from your own life, you may find this interview transformative.

Insects have a powerful advocate in James Khoo. A passionate and committed entomologist from Singapore, James lives with a large number of tiny creatures and is quite mesmerizing in his descriptions of their superpowers and beauty.

Listen in and learn more about “bio-mimicry,” the joys and challenges of science communication, the plight of insects globally and what we can all do to help.

Available on your favourite streaming platform or at arocha.org/en/field-notes-podcast/

29/05/2026

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the John Stott Birding Day bird race: the Gardner-Webb ASA chapter!

In South Carolina, USA, the group spotted a team record of 116 species! The dedicated group of three birders woke up at dawn and went back out after dark to record an array of owls, woodpeckers, vireos, and many more.

This year, birders in 12 countries around the world spotted 754 species: an impressive tally for a relatively low number of countries. That’s roughly 7% of all the bird species in the world!

Enormous thanks to everyone who joined A Rocha for a day of birding in memory of our friend John Stott. We can’t wait to see you next year!

28/05/2026

Meet, Mama Priscilla. Since her daughter joined A Rocha Kenya’s Assets programme, she began thinking differently about the environment, and she has become a symbol of hope in her community.

Thanks to A Rocha’s Global Conservation Fund, A Rocha Kenya is evaluating the Assets eco-bursaries programme to determine its impact on nature and communities.

From outdoor churches in the Netherlands to sustainable livelihoods in Peru and a new marine programme in India, the Global Conservation Fund is making innovative conservaiton projects possible.

Watch the recording of our virtual event ‘Seeding fertile ground: A Rocha’s Global Conservation Fund’ for more hopeful conservation stories!

Visit https://arocha.org/en/seeding-fertile-ground-a-rochas-global-conservation-fund/

27/05/2026

For more than 30 years, salmon were blocked from reaching critical spawning habitat in Canada’s Tatalu watershed. Now, A Rocha Canada has made a path for them!

An impassable culvert once prevented migrating salmon from swimming up Jacobsen Creek, affecting the creek’s ecological balance. To help bring back the salmon, A Rocha Canada’s BC Conservation Science team constructed a fishway and rehabilitated surrounding habitat in 2023.

The fishway raised the streambed to the height of the culvert and followed the creek’s natural meander, providing a safe passage for salmon to 4 km of previously inaccessible spawning and rearing habitat. In 2025, Chinook and Coho salmon were observed spawning upstream!

Read more hopeful conservation stories in our 2025 Annual Review! Available at https://arocha.org/en/2025-annual-review/

📸: Photos by Hannah Mae Rose