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One World Wildlife - protecting our world's threatened wildlife and habitats through practical intervention, education and scientific research. Creating a balance between ecological concerns and economic requirements, taking account of human needs and building local ownership.

Our Aims

One World Wildlife is a recently formed British based conservation charity that undertakes and supports, through private donations and corporate sponsorship, ecological research, sustainable development initiatives and environmental education projects. We are managed by a highly experienced and professional team of academic environmentalists and businessmen who are dedicated to this work. Our organisation is cost-efficient, relying primarily on volunteers. Our overheads are thus reduced to an absolute minimum and this factor ensures that the majority of our funds are channelled directly where they are urgently required. Our conservation strategy focuses on the importance of creating a balance between ecological and economic concerns. This realistic approach ensures that threatened and degraded habitats throughout the world are protected for the benefit of both wildlife and the local human inhabitants whose long-term survival invariably depends upon it. The working conservation model we have developed has been successfully applied in regions as far afield as South Africa, Tahiti, South America, mainland Europe and Great Britain.

We are committed to expanding our ecological interests into other regions of the world whose ecosystems are similarly being threatened by unsustainable development and exploitation.

Our Method

One World Wildlife is able to draw on a worldwide network of leading scientists, environmentalists and specialists in many fields and is, therefore, able to develop its projects using the most up to date information, research and techniques. We are especially interested in supporting ecological projects that result in a productive coexistence between local communities and their surrounding environments. Our approach ensures that ecosystems are not preserved at the expense of the needs of the local people, but are maintained and preserved in a manner that benefits those communities economically, in a sustainable way and in the long-term. We have achieved this by developing a sophisticated model that is simple to implement and which has proven to be highly effective within the regions that it has been applied. This model, upon which our conservation strategy is based:-

• Is non-exploitative.

• Is implemented by and in the interests of local communities and their futures in a cooperative and self-sustaining manner.

• Provides the initial impetus to develop and preserve local resources and the environment.

• Identifies the requirements of local communities in order to develop (in a sustainable way) local environmental assets.

• Generates income from projects to ensure economic self-sufficiency of local communities thus eliminating the need for continual dependency on outside funding.