About the Forever Wild Intiative

The Forever Wild Initiative builds the financial architecture and programs to support global climate and biodiversity targets, focusing on globally important wilderness. Headed by a registered charity, you can donate to our critical work. Join us to create a legacy

Protecting remaining wilderness

We don't work on theoretical ideas and concepts - we focus on creating actual pathways to unlock and deploy lage-scale finance for nature. Our entire purpose is to move from intent to action.Read about our 600,000 hectare case study here.

Applied Nature Finance

We focus on creating the conditions for nature finance - where the rights of nature are embedded and enforceable in legal structures and financial instruments. We also create pathways for IP&LCs to protect their rights. Learn about what we do.

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

 

 Learn how we do it.

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.

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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. We must continue to protect people's rights and deep spiritual connections. 

 

See more on our work with Indigenous People & Local Communities

WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNITIES AND BROADER SOCIETIES. To succeed in addressing some of the planet's greatest challenges, communities, economies, and nature must work together. We co-design financial architecture to connect investment, nature and communities.

The Forever Wild Initiative works with a diverse range of partners to support healthy societies living in healthy landscapes.

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

Read about our large-scale wilderness protection projects, and how we do it.

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.