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Helping Indigenous and Local Communities Recover from Natural Disasters in Mesoamerica

Aiding the recovery of vital communities in the wake of human-caused climate change.

mesoamerica climate resilience fund

Investing in innovative projects to restore lions and the wild they depend on.

lion recovery fund

Ending the ivory crisis with Save the Elephants and WCN.

elephant crisis fund

shark conservation fund

Protecting Leuser to Safeguard Lives and Livelihoods 

Saving the last place on earth where orangutans, rhinos, elephants, and tigers still live together in the wild.

leuser ecosystem action fund

Virunga: Africa’s Oldest National Park

A joint initiative supporting Virunga National Park to deliver critical disease prevention efforts, law enforcement, and to support the families of rangers who have fallen in the line of duty.

virunga fund 

Re:wild and our partners are uniquely positioned to immediately respond to the emergencies threatening biodiversity, people and ecosystems through our rapid response program. 

Rapid Response

#KOALACOMEBACK PLANTS 4685 TREES TO EXPAND KOALA CORRIDOR

WildArk together, with our partners David Yarrow and Global Wildlife Conservation, has planted 4685 koala feed (eucalypt) and rainforest trees in a fire-impacted area of NSW, Australia, as part of the #KoalaComeback campaign.
Using David Yarrow’s striking image of a surviving koala amidst an incinerated landscape on Kangaroo Island, the #KoalaComeback Campaign raised funds for wildlife rehabilitation and habitat restoration efforts in the aftermath of the Australian bushfires. 

The trees were planted through local not-for-profit Bangalow Koalas and form part of the Bangalow Koalas Community Wildlife Corridor, which aims to enhance, protect and conserve habitat for threatened species and ecological communities. This includes the koala and the critically endangered Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical Australia.

The trees will help enhance and connect the wildlife corridor of koala habitat and rainforest remnants currently existing in a cleared agricultural landscape matrix in Northern NSW.
“We aim to provide ‘stepping stones’ for koalas to move safely to a neighbouring wooded area and support the existing koala population with an enhanced network of koala feed trees,” said Bangalow Koalas president Linda Sparrow

The trees were planted in the North East Hinterland Area of Koala Significance, recently identified under NSW Koala Strategy 2018. Areas of Regional Koala Significance (ARKS) have been mapped across NSW using koala conservation densities analysis. The property selected in the Swan Bay floodplain, is an area impacted by recent bushfires and drought. This area has crucial koala habitat with fragmented populations of koalas. 

The #KoalaComeback supported the planting, site advice, and species identification undertaken by Bangalow Koalas expert team of qualified and licensed bush regenerators, ecologists, and a project manager who will continue monitoring and maintaining the trees over three years.

“Grassroots projects such as tree planting are the soul of the conservation community, and Bangalow Koalas represent the very best of community action,” said WildArk Co-founder Mark Hutchinson. “These 1,000s of trees extending the wildlife corridors of NSW is vital, and it’s a positive story after our devastating fires. WildArk couldn’t be prouder to support this initiative.”
Funds raised through the #KoalaComeback Campaign will continue to support wildlife rehabilitation and habitat restoration efforts relating to bushfire recovery across Australia. 

All images by @Daniel Ridgley Hewitt

Action Funds

mesoamerica climate resilience fund

lion recovery fund

elephant crisis fund

shark conservation fund

leuser ecosystem action fund

virunga fund

Rapid Response

mesoamerica climate resilience fund

lion recovery fund

elephant crisis fund

shark conservation fund

leuser ecosystem action fund

virunga fund

Rapid Response