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Working across societies and nature, the Forever Wild Initiative unlocks nature finance to support ambitious global targets for nature and communities. Join us to create a legacy

Community & Nature Based Solutions

Learn about our SHARED EARTH LANDSCAPES, connecting individuals, families, entire communities and the broader society to our natural world

Our Programs

Connect with us, learn about our integrated approach, and how nature-based enterprise can redefine the economic relationship with nature.

Wilderness includes people. We are on one planet and must support communities, our diverse cultures, local economies and biological diversity.



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80% of Earth's wilderness, and many of the societal values it contained, are gone forever.

View some of our spectacular images and video showcasing Forever Wild's landscapes, cultures, communities and livelihoods.

Join us in creating a remarkable legacy
THE HUMAN SPIRIT. Human beings have a connection to wilderness that reaches back millions of years into the past. It is where we lived, and died, and gave life to the next generations. Wilderness is essential to human well-being, and harbours irreplaceable markers of human history on this planet. OUR SHARED HISTORY, OUR SHARED PLANET

Human Spirit program

WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNITIES AND BROADER SOCIETIES. To succeed in addressing some of the planet's greatest challenges, communities, economics and nature must work together. We co-design large-scale Community Nature-Based Solutions to ensure social and ecological equity in how land is used.

Forever Wild is an initiative like no other - we directly support the needs of human communities in vast natural landscapes, working with a diverse range of partners to support healthy societies. From a core charity we create diverse profit-for-purpose enterprises to enable large-scale finance to be deployed for nature, and for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs).

We know we can produce food, underpin livelihoods and support communities while protecting wilderness landscapes.

Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on conservation, species are still blinking out and our climate is changing. We need to work at scale, and reset our relationship with our planet. Wilderness landscapes must be at least 10,000 km².

The natural world supports extraordinary biological diversity. 

 

Philanthropic efforts alone are not sufficient to protect nature, and the Forever Wild Initiative is committed to creating and deploying finance mechanisms to unlock large-scale private finance for biodiversity.