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Category: East Asia

Why Cranes? Our Work is About Life on Earth

Forty-five years ago a great idea hatched to create a global organization – the International Crane Foundation – focused solely on the study and preservation of the world’s 15 species of cranes. But, why cranes? With so many important causes to support around the world, why would we focus our mission and vision so narrowly on cranes? Because, when the International Crane Foundation saves cranes, we save so very, very much more!

A Risky Climate for Cranes, Wetlands and Our World

I was working in Zambia when word came that the United States would pull out of the international Paris Agreement on climate change.  Listening to this news with a group of Zambian colleagues, I was saddened. In Zambia, and nearly everywhere we work around the world, climate change is treated as a life or death matter.

Notes from the President: Finding Balance

I ride a unicycle and often find myself thinking about balance. I’ve learned I can do all sorts of surprising things when firmly balanced on one wheel… playing hockey, riding marathon distances, or winding down a mountainside on bumpy dirt trails. Conservation is likewise about finding balance in challenging circumstances – that elusive balance that results in win-win solutions for people and wildlife and thereby builds broad public support for conservation.

Announcing new range maps for all 15 crane species


Building upon decades of research, we have created current range maps for the 15 species of crane on behalf of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Crane Specialist Group. The maps represent the combined knowledge of experts throughout each species’ range.