What We Do

Through an alliance with strategic partners, such as TerraWest Conservancy and Global Habitat Alliance, private land that has high value for wildlife habitat is identified. We then cultivate a partnership with a willing landowner, or seek to purchase land when available, to use that land to create a Wildlife Habitat Bank.

Our strategic partners conduct ecological evaluations, legal protections, financial protections and landscape improvements to develop the Wildlife Habitat Credits, all of which is verified by independent third parties. This process includes developing a perpetual management plan to maintain the improved land.

The Wildlife Foundation takes the Wildlife Habit Credits to the market and invites philanthropically minded individuals, organizations, and foundations to consider making gifts that will retire a specific number of Wildlife Habitat Credits from a particular Wildlife Habitat Bank/ property of their choosing.

The Wildlife Habitat Credits are retired permanently, the landowner is compensated, and the long-term management plan is implemented. The donations to purchase the Wildlife Habitat Credits fund, in part, a permanent operational endowment to ensure funding of the management plan in perpetuity.