The Heritage Institute

Fauna & Flora International (FFI) was established over a century ago. Founded in 1903, it was the world’s first international conservation organisation and is a registered charity. FFI now works in more than 40 countries – mainly in the developing world – to save species from extinction and habitats from destruction, whilst improving the livelihoods of local people.

Vision: A sustainable future for the planet, where biodiversity is effectively conserved by the people who live closest to it, supported by the global community.

Mission: To conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs.

http://www.fauna-flora.org/

As a pioneering and flexible organisation, working where the conservation need is greatest, FFI delivers results by:

• Helping people to conserve their own wildlife, rather than conserving it for them

• Developing local capacity, rather than building FFI’s own infrastructure.

This distinctive approach is central to all FFI’s work and is the only way to achieve conservation that lasts.

FFI often works with species or habitats that are overlooked by other organisations, usually due to the fact they are unfashionable or situated in conflict and natural disaster zones. With over 85% of the charity’s turnover going directly to conservation activities, FFI is also one of the most cost-effective conservation organisations operating today.

Around the world FFI’s conservation efforts are making a significant difference to threatened species and habitats.To date, just some of the organisation’s key achievements include:

• Conserving over 11.7 million hectares of irreplaceable habitat globally in the last ten years

• Reversing the decline of the world’s Critically Endangered mountain gorilla, increasing the population by 17%

• Establishing a safe habitat for the most endangered cat species in the world, the Iberian lynx, protecting  nearly 10,000 hectares of land in Portugal for this beautiful cat

• Increasing the population of the Critically Endangered Hainan gibbon in China by 15% and almost doubling the numbers of cao vit gibbon in Vietnam in the past five years

• Securing 184,000 hectares of the highest priority conservation land in the Brazilian Amazon and implementing further projects to protect precious habitats in most of the world’s other important tropical rainforest countries.

“If you value the natural world, if you believe it should be conserved for its own sake as well as for humanity’s, then do please support FFI. Extraordinary results can come from relatively small amounts of money, properly deployed. Investment in the work of FFI is, truly, an investment in the future of our planet.”

Sir David Attenborough CH, FRS FFI Vice President.