
WHAT WE DO
We protect and restore biodiversity by co-designing economic opportunity with Indigenous People and Local Communities, driven by industry-leading businesses committed to creating positive change.
It's good for wildlife, it's good for people, and it's good for business.


The Challenge
Increasing global challenges like climate change, habitat loss, resource depletion, and economic inequities need more than a business-as-usual approach.
To have the balanced, well-functioning ecosystems that our global well-being relies on, we must bring solutions that involve local people and local communities


The Opportunity
As recognised in the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, nature-based solutions have an important role to play in addressing global challenges.
By developing strategic community partnerships and connection to key biodiversity hotspots offers a means to achieving environmental and social impact, and solutions that connect at both a local, and global level.


Our Methodology
Circular Sustainability
Part of our unique approach is developing circular sustainability which combines pillars of circular economy - that is sustainable development and social inclusion - with the pillars of landscape restoration - that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human well-being in degraded natural landscapes.
Our Model

People For Wildlife's Four Pillars

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GOAL
Conservation economies are empowering communities to achieve their sustainable development aspirations, and people are motivated to value biodiversity for its economic incentives, as well as the intrinsic cultural and social values.
WHY IT'S IMPORTANT
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Social and economic inequities can exist in remote, rural, and Indigenous communities, including limited economic opportunity.
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Many communities aspire for nature-based economic opportunities that don’t come at the expense of their landscapes.
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If we expect people to care for and about biodiversity, then they need to value/benefit from it.
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In most cases, conservation is about managing people and not nature; people must come first.
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Long, enduring, connection to, and management of, natural landscapes.
WHAT WE DO
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People For Wildlife work with local people and communities who manage natural landscapes to develop sustainable harvesting/supply programs of raw materials/natural materials, and we facilitate supply agreements with industry-leading businesses.
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It enables business to have a positive impact on society beyond simply delivering high-quality products and enables economic opportunities for communities that don’t come at the expense of their landscapes and biodiversity.
PROMOTING CORPORATE STEWARDSHIP

02.
INVESTING IN PEOPLE
AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES
GOAL
The value of natural landscapes is embedded in corporate decision making, and the private sector is participating and investing in nature-based solutions that deliver environmental, economic, and social benefits.
WHY IT'S IMPORTANT
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Sustainable supply chains are dependent on healthy, thriving ecosystems. Sustainable resource use requires an urgent shift from depletive extraction models to models that have a net regenerative impact on nature.
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The global biodiversity crisis needs more people and businesses to be involved in frontline conservation. Many businesses want to invest in nature, and their customers, investors, and exposure to nature-related risks demand it. But there are limited opportunities beyond a one-way philanthropic model.
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The true cost (or value) of a product extends beyond the material to the social, environmental and cultural.
WHAT WE DO
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People For Wildlife provides a conduit to strategic partnerships that achieve greater environmental synergies between conservationists, corporates, and communities.
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We engage with and link businesses to bespoke supply chains that pay local communities for the raw material they harvest and the conservation of the ecosystem that provides it.
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It empowers business to value and invest in nature conservation while respecting that their core purpose is business.

GOAL
Biodiversity and landscapes are understood, managed, enhanced, and safeguarded through conservation programs that are informed by the best available science and traditional knowledge.
WHY IT'S IMPORTANT
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Healthy landscapes/functioning ecosystems are critical for the wellbeing of people, and nature. Healthy landscapes provide ecosystem services like clean air and water, food production, carbon sequestration, and cultural, recreation and tourism values.
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In many of the areas we work, there are knowledge gaps in our understanding of the landscape, its biodiversity, and how threats like climate change and habitat loss are impacting species.
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Healthy landscapes also protect and ensure the ongoing supply of nature-based raw materials from which people benefit.
WHAT WE DO
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People For Wildlife undertakes scientific research and monitoring to address critical biological and ecological knowledge gaps, which enables us to develop targeted management strategies.
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We deliver on-ground conservation activities, working closely with communities to incorporate traditional knowledge and local expertise into science-based strategies.
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We safeguard areas of land through co-management agreements and are working towards permanent acquisition of key natural landscapes.
IMPROVING BIODIVERSITY
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LEADING THE CONVERSATION
GOAL
Targeted knowledge brokering grows ‘circular restoration’ and ‘circular sustainability’ literacy and influences consumers and businesses to engage with and embed these concepts in their decision making.
WHY IT'S IMPORTANT
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The evidence-base to support sustainable use frameworks is unequivocal, but there is a lack of cut-through to audiences, and there are loud opponents.
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Growing people’s understanding of circular restoration and the economic value of nature will build support for our solutions and help influence behaviour change.
WHAT WE DO
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We reframe sustainable-use narratives in a positive way.
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We build sector capacity to engage in conversations that will influence policy.
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We promote research and other outputs that demonstrate the value of nature and the impact of circular restoration.