Our Work

Protecting and restoring the fabric of life in our only home is at the heart of everything we do.

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Collaborative Solutions

We work shoulder-to-shoulder with both funders and our partners on the ground. Our core donors support our operating costs, so that 100% of all public donations are channeled directly to our programs across the world.

Radical change requires radical collaborations. Everything we do is in partnership with individuals, Indigenous peoples, communities, organizations, governments, and companies.

Our collaborative approach enables us to scale impact through the replication and amplification of proven solutions, and to act quickly where need meets opportunity.

We focus on solutions — such as creating and managing protected areas, protecting and restoring ecosystems, working with Indigenous people on their land rights, and preventing wildlife crime — that are tailored to local ecological, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts and implemented by our local partners.

Where we work

We work to protect and restore those places of utmost importance to the overall health of the planet and the persistence of biodiversity. Those places that, if lost, would result in a series of major extinctions that would reverberate globally.

  • Biodiversity Hotspots

    Biodiversity Hotspots are biogeographic regions holding exceptional concentrations of endemic species that are severely threatened. Thirty-six terrestrial hotspots have been recognized, covering 16.7% of Earth’s land surface. What remains of the natural vegetation in these 36 hotspots, however, is down to 2.39% of the world’s land area, an area a little larger than India. Scientists estimate that half of all plant and vertebrate species are found only within the hotspots.

  • High Biodiversity Wilderness Areas

    High Biodiversity Wilderness Areas (HBWAs) are offer a proactive rather than reactive approach to prioritization. HBWAs are greater than 1 million hectares in area, and retain an extraordinary wealth of biodiversity. These areas are at least 70%, and up to 90%, intact.

  • Key Biodiversity Areas

    Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity, delineated at a finer scale than both Biodiversity Hotspots and High Biodiversity Wilderness Areas. As founding partners of the KBA Partnership, we aim to ensure that all 16,000 KBAs, especially the 8,000 within Biodiversity Hotspots and High Biodiversity Wilderness Areas, are effectively safeguarded and restored through collaborations.

Global Partnerships

We maximize efficiency and scale through strategic partnerships that leverage resources and prioritize and align actions for global impact.

End the Trade

The Coalition to End the Trade is mobilizing resources to support a call to end the commercial trade of terrestrial wild animals for consumption. Its key strategies focus on reducing demand, closing supply chains and actively monitoring for pathogens.
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Five Great Forests of Mesoamerica

The last five great forests of Mesoamerica span from Mexico to Colombia and are hotspots for biodiversity and irreplaceable wildlife. These forests contain more than 50% of the region’s carbon stock, making it vital to all wildlife.
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Forests For Life

A partnership to secure more than a billion hectares of the world’s most intact forests. The world’s intact forests are irreplaceable. They are natural solutions that can help address the climate crisis and extinction crisis.
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Key Biodiversity Areas

Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA), which are among the most incredible and diverse places on Earth for nature, are sites of global importance to the planet’s overall health and the persistence of biodiversity. The Key Biodiversity Area Partnership—an ambitious partnership of 13 global conservation organizations, including Re:wild—is helping prevent the rapid loss of biodiversity by identifying these places on Earth that are critical for the survival of unique plants and animals.
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Global Rewilding Alliance

The Global Rewilding Alliance (GRA) is a growing network of more than 125 practitioner and messenger organizations, and an official implementation partner of the UN Decade of Restoration. Alliance members are working to rewild more than 100 million hectares of land and sea in more than 70 countries.
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Lost Species

The Search for Lost Species is all about looking for plants, animals and fungi that have been lost to science for at least 10 years—sometimes hundreds of years. All is not lost. We can protect and restore our planet.
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Local Partnerships

We do not have offices in the places we work, but support partners, individuals, and communities on the ground. We work with more than 200 partners in over 50 countries, developing and replicating best practices that can be tailored and implemented locally. We believe that the best people to protect the local environment are the leaders who live there.

Amazonia

Re:wild supports more than 35 partners in Amazonia on the front lines protecting this special place. Our work is helping improve conservation of more than 99.8 million acres of protected areas and Indigenous Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) and contributing support to land titling efforts for 120 Indigenous communities over 5.9 million acres.

Annamites

Re:wild supports conservation breeding programs for rare species in the Annamites. These programs are led by our partners on the ground, and are critical to the survival of species on the brink of extinction, like the Critically Endangered Saola.
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Australia

Australia and its amazing island of Tasmania are home to some of the most unusual and threatened wildlife on the planet, including in the rainforests in the mountains of New South Wales.
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The Bahamas

The Bahamas is home to the third-largest barrier reef in the world, and more than 300 bird species (many of which depend on The Bahamas to rest and recharge on long migratory journeys).
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Caribbean

Re:wild and our partners aim to boost the natural resilience of functioning ecosystems to the adverse impacts of climate change, while simultaneously reducing the vulnerability of local communities to destruction.
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Indio Maíz-Tortuguero

Indio Maíz is leading a new movement of Indigenous and Community Conserved Territories and Areas. Conservation works best when local people are empowered and supported to lead it.
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Galápagos

Re:wild works with partners, the Ecuadorian government and local communities toward a shared vision of healthy, sustainable, functioning and vibrant island and marine ecosystems across the Galápagos.
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Madagascar

In addition to supporting and implementing specific conservation actions for lemurs and promoting ecotourism as a way to protect the forests while improving the livelihoods of local communities, Re:wild is focused on rewilding Madagascar through reforestation—an effective strategy for restoring degraded landscapes and forest health.
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Maya Forest Corridor

The Maya Forest Corridor Coalition, made up of local and international partners, including Re:wild, identified a minimum of 50,000 acres of forest that need to be protected to keep the corridor alive. Re:wild and the Maya Forest Corridor Coalition are working to acquire and protect the corridor and place it into trust in perpetuity for the people of Belize.
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Mesoamerica

Re:wild works closely with regional partners to implement large-scale programs to protect the five largest intact forests in Mesoamerica: the Maya Forest in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize; the Moskitia in Nicaragua and Honduras; the Indio Maíz-Tortuguero in Nicaragua and Costa Rica; the Talamanca Region in Costa Rica and Panama; and the Darien in Panama and Colombia.
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Sumatra

The Indonesian Island of Sumatra is home to incredible wildlife and forests and is part of the Sundaland Biodiversity Hotspot. It is home to critically endangered Sumatran rhinos, orangutans, Asian elephants and Sumatran tigers. Re:wild works with partners to save and restore Endangered species and irreplaceable ecosystems in Sumatra.
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Virunga National Park

Re:wild has teamed up with the European Commission and Virunga National Park in a partnership that aims to restore the park’s ecosystems with a focus on the great apes, and establish the park as the major driver for economic growth, peace and stability in eastern Congo.
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For all wildkind

We all have a role to play in protecting and restoring the species and ecosystems, as citizens, decision-makers, institutions and private companies. Our collective actions and habits drive systemic and lasting change.

Achieving our vision of a world in which thriving wildlife and ecosystems underpin our own wellbeing and prosperity will require not just rewilding species and places, but also rewilding hearts and minds.

By inspiring creative collaborations and action among stakeholders for the future of our planet, and providing toolkits for action and a platform for engagement and community-building around natural solutions, we are building enabling conditions for individual people and organizations worldwide to adopt in their daily lives a philosophy of rewilding our shared home, together.

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