Fauna & Flora International has made some remarkable achievements in over 100 years of conservation.
Since 1998 Fauna & Flora International’s Arcadia Fund has helped conserve over 12.5 million acres of irreplaceable habitat, an area larger than Denmark, and has committed US$8 million, and leveraged over US$44 million, to protect threatened landscapes. This has preserved forests in Ecuador’s Awacachi Corridor, saved Flower Valley’s unique fynbos landscape in South Africa from conversion to viniculture, protected a vital watershed in southern Belize, and secured important habitat for the Iberian lynx, one of the world’s most endangered wild cats.
As a founder member of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme, Fauna & Flora International has helped to protect the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas, that live on the borders of Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. We have achieved a remarkable 12% increase in this population since 1991, in a region beset by armed conflict and humanitarian crises.
Undercover operations by an Fauna & Flora International-supported tiger protection force in Sumatra culminated in the first ever arrest and successful prosecution of a high-ranking official for tiger trafficking. Our work continues to prevent the extinction of the Sumatran tiger, the last surviving subspecies in Indonesia.
Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains are south-east Asia’s largest remaining unspoilt natural wilderness. Over two million acres of pristine forest, supporting many endangered species including tigers, Asian elephants and the Siamese crocodile, have been protected.
In 2005 Fauna & Flora International received the first international humanitarian aid grant given specifically for environmental work in Aceh, Sumatra, enabling us to ensure that environmental protection is successfully integrated into post-tsunami reconstruction plans.
Fauna & Flora International was one of the first organizations to successfully reintroduce a captive species after its extinction in the wild; from the original nine individuals the population of Arabian oryx has since risen to almost 900 living wild in Saudi Arabia, Oman and Israel.
Fauna & Flora International established a Brazilian environmental NGO that has delivered an education programme involving 8,000 children and 200 teachers to protect Pau brasil, an endangered tree species used to make violin bows.
After 10 years of hard work, we have achieved a five fold increase in the population of what was the world’s rarest snake, the Antiguan Racer, a small, harmless serpent found only on that Island. The project to save it has developed into plans to protect more than a quarter of Antigua's coastline.
Since its inception, Fauna & Flora International has published Oryx - The International Journal of Conservation. The first publication of its kind, it was aimed at disseminating wildlife conservation information to practitioners around the world. Today Oryx is considered the world’s foremost technical journal in the field of biodiversity conservation.
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