All life, including our own, depends on a fully functional planet to survive and thrive. Biodiversity, the vast array of plants, animals, and ecosystems, is the life support system of our planet and underpins the healthy ecosystems that provide us food, clean air and water, stable climate, and medicines.
What makes us different? We have a collaborative model that works directly with local partners to protect wildlife and their habitats, focused on often overlooked but highly threatened species and ecosystems integral to the health of our planet.
Our flexible model allows us to make a direct impact anywhere wildlife and ecosystems are most threatened. We work directly with local communities, indigenous groups, organizations, and governments to protect natural resources. This is critical for the long-term persistence of biodiversity and human societies on our only home – Earth.
We protect and restore places with exceptional concentrations of unique and threatened species, our world's most irreplaceable places.
We focus on the most threatened and often the most overlooked species. The wildlife that are even more endangered for their anonymity.
We provide individuals, communities, and organizations with the tools, resources and know-how to implement actionable conservation solutions.
Much like biodiversity itself, our work relies on relationships. We hold fast to our founding principle that collaborative, local community-led solutions make the biggest difference. We partner with local communities, indigenous groups, organizations, and governments to co-develop and implement solutions to address each location’s unique needs. We provide additional financial support, expertise, and tools for greater impact.
We deliver measurable, boots-on-the-ground, solutions. Important global research like the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species guides our work, and once in-country we mobilize local partners and the community, rapidly assess root-cause issues, and take swift action. Our record speaks for itself. Over the past ten years, we have worked to conserve wildlife and habitat in more than 50 countries and have helped establish over 30 protected areas, home to more than 150 endangered species, impacting over 20,000 species overall.
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THREATENED SPECIES PROTECTED
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ACRES CONSERVED
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PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS WORLDWIDE
Your support helps protect irreplaceable places, funds expeditions to find lost species, supports cutting-edge breeding programs, and so much more. Plus, our Board of Directors covers all operational costs, so 100% of your donation goes directly to field.
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The diversity of life on Earth—the entire array of plants, animals and their habitats, collectively known as “biodiversity”—is essential for a healthy planet where all life can thrive, including humans. But the loss of biodiversity is occurring at an alarming rate across the planet. Key Biodiversity Areas, which are among the most incredible and diverse […]
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Hatchling Cuban Crocodiles at the Zapata breeding sanctuary Some say the island of Cuba is shaped like a crocodile, an animal with significant political and symbolic weight in the country, and strongly tied to Cuban national identity. The species has the smallest natural distribution of any living crocodilian, being found only in parts of Cuba’s […]
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Within a span of two weeks two massive hurricanes Eta and Iota pummeled Mesoamerica, hitting Nicaragua and Honduras directly. The category 4 and category 5 hurricanes, with winds of 160 miles-per-hour and dumping more than 30 inches of rain, caused mass devastation to the Moskitia Forest, one of the Five Great Forests of Mesoamerica. The […]
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The Amazon Basin is one of the world’s five designated High-Biodiversity Wilderness Areas, stretching across all or part of eight countries and the department of French Guiana. It hosts an astounding half of the world’s tropical forests as well as the largest river system on Earth. An extraordinary wealth of biodiversity exists here – literally […]
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Long-tailed chinchillas (Chinchilla lanigera) are native to Chile and are found nowhere else on Earth. They have long erect hairs on upper side of their long tails and large ears. Both their tails and ears aid in cooling body temperature by circulating blood to these areas. They are social animals that can live in large […]
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Cattle might seem common, but today there’s nothing ordinary about an incredible group of Asian wild cattle species with names that, like the animals themselves, are unique: Banteng, Tamaraw, Saola, Anoa, and that list goes on. Up until the 16th century, 13 species of wild cattle lived across Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. Today, […]
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