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If you’re ready to challenge convention, you’re in the right place
Wild5 offers donors the opportunity to invest not only in landscapes, but in the future design of conservation itself.
We believe that by combining deep philanthropic experience in biodiversity and social justice, we can offer funders and custodians a fresh way to work together, providing a way to invest that serves both conservation outcomes and the dignity of the communities who make them possible.
We’re not a grantmaker - we’re catalysing the next generation of conservation systems.
Wild5 is building a portfolio of 3-5 landscape innovation sites, each a laboratory for the next generation of conservation.
In practice:
We’re investing $1–1.5M per landscape annually
We’ll deliver complementary investment in monitoring, learning, and policy engagement
This creates a portfolio capable of generating and sustaining learnings - wisdom that can influence conservation systems globally.
Strategic philanthropic capital enables:
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Testing new approaches to governance, stewardship, and wildlife protection.
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Generating knowledge that shapes conservation policy and practice.
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Successful models can be adopted by governments, NGOs and multilateral institutions.
Think of it as a conservation ‘aquifer’
Rather than funding isolated projects, Wild5 supports a portfolio designed to influence conservation globally.
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Discover our Aquifer model