Towards a stronger, more resilient conservation sector

Through our capacity strand, we are helping to build a stronger, better equipped, more collaborative, and more resilient biodiversity conservation sector.

We are constantly learning how we can best support our conservation partners, listening to their needs and providing tools and resources to help them fulfil their potential.

We actively promote increased and more effective funding for nature conservation, collaborating with other funders to reimagine environmental philanthropy, exploring more equitable and impactful approaches.

And we champion critical voices that are too often excluded from global discussions and decision-making on biodiversity.

Our approach to capacity

While a relatively small number of high-profile conservation causes and international organisations receive the lion’s share of global funding, there is a persistent lack of resources and effective support for many other brilliant, often smaller, community-based NGOs and Civil Society Organisations.

With this work, our goal is to address gaps in conservation capacity and philanthropic funding for the regions, ecosystems, and species that are the focus of our programmes. Our aim is to help strengthen every link in the chain: from the individual working on the ground, to the small, local organisations and civil society groups, and national and international NGOs; from the funders and philanthropists financing conservation, to the global processes and forums where decisions on biodiversity conservation are made.

The starting point for this work is recognition that the conservation partners we work with have a depth and breadth of capacity that we do not: knowledge of their environment and its biodiversity; understanding of the wider political, social, and economic context; their presence in the community, and their familiarity with culture and language. Without the capacity our partners already hold, none of what we do would be possible.