Introduction

The Fund for Wild Nature provides small grants to small groups who get things done. We do not fund salaries or overhead. We fund action for wildlife, for endangered species, for rivers, for public lands, for the places and the life that we depend on.

We provide this service for free, but we need money to give to organizations doing the hard work in the field. We promise you this: if you give to no other organization this year, your donation to the Fund for Wild Nature will yield results.

Mission

The Fund for Wild Nature believes that healthy ecosystems are too essential to be sacrificed. Increasingly rare, wild areas constitute the main reservoirs of biodiversity. They also provide key spiritual and scientific reference points for understanding the planet's wondrous cycles of birth, life, death, and decay.

The Board's ideology is rooted in biocentrism and the belief that the human experience has become increasingly distressed because society has disconnected from Nature, and has attempted to control natural systems for short-sighted consumption. We may perceive comfort and convenience, but the waste we leave degrades our quality of life, and inflicts a great deal of suffering on the other life with which we share the Earth. When we realize our kinship with these other life forms, we re-discover our natural, wilder selves.

By renouncing unlimited growth and the requisite domination of Nature, we shed the apathy and disempowerment induced by a corporate-dominated culture. This will ultimately enrich our lives because these ideas are grounded in our bedrock social and emotional needs dating to our species' origin.