Wildlife & Environmental Protection
Protect wild lives, restore habitats, and care for our shared planet.
Wildlife & Environmental Partners
Organizations protecting wildlife, habitats, and our natural world.
Profile Awaiting ClaimPlanting Peace
📍 Topeka, Kansas · sanctuaries in Laos and Thailand
Founded in 2004 by Aaron Jackson, Planting Peace buys abused working elephants out of logging and tourism and retires them to sanctuary, aiming for one rescue a month, alongside deworming campaigns and rainforest protection. US nonprofit (Awake, Inc.), EIN 26-3469836.
Profile Awaiting ClaimPanthera
📍 New York, USA · worldwide
Science-led conservation for all 40 wild cat species, from fishing cats to tigers, working with governments and communities across their ranges. Four-star Charity Navigator rating. US nonprofit, EIN 20-4668756.
Profile Awaiting ClaimSouthwest Wildlife Conservation Center
📍 Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Rescues, rehabilitates and releases Arizona's native mammals — coyotes, bobcats, javelina, foxes, mountain lions — and gives lifelong sanctuary to those that cannot go home. Part of the Mexican gray wolf recovery program. US nonprofit, EIN 86-0765249.
Profile Awaiting ClaimPangea Elephant Sanctuary
📍 Alentejo, Portugal
Europe's first large-scale sanctuary for elephants retired from circuses and zoos — a 1,000-acre estate between Vila Viçosa and Alandroal, built for up to 30 elephants to roam, forage and socialise for life. Run by the Pangea Trust, a UK-registered charity (since 2017) and Portuguese non-profit, backed by Born Free.
Profile Awaiting ClaimIFAW — International Fund for Animal Welfare
📍 Washington, DC, USA · worldwide
Global rescue and conservation group working on marine mammal stranding response, wildlife trafficking, elephants, and disaster response for animals since 1969. US nonprofit.
Profile Awaiting ClaimThe Ocean Cleanup
📍 Rotterdam, Netherlands · worldwide
Non-profit engineering group building systems to pull plastic out of the ocean garbage patches and intercept it in the rivers that carry it there — Jakarta, Manila and dozens more.
Profile Awaiting ClaimDefenders of Wildlife
📍 Washington, DC, USA (field office in Seattle)
Works on the ground, in the courts and on Capitol Hill for imperiled North American wildlife since 1947, from wolves and grizzlies to the Endangered Species Act itself. Nonpartisan 501(c)(3).
Profile Awaiting ClaimWildlife Conservation Society
📍 Bronx, New York, USA · worldwide
Science-driven conservation in more than 60 countries, backed by the Bronx Zoo and its sister parks, protecting elephants, tigers, gorillas, whales and the wild strongholds they need. 4-star Charity Navigator, EIN 13-1740011.
Profile Awaiting ClaimNational Wildlife Federation
📍 Reston, Virginia, USA
One of the largest US conservation groups, with state affiliates in every region — public lands, clean water, native habitat and the Garden for Wildlife program that certifies backyard habitats. EIN 53-0204616.
Profile Awaiting ClaimWorld Wildlife Fund (WWF-US)
📍 Washington, DC, USA · worldwide
The largest international conservation organisation, working since 1961 on endangered species, forests, oceans and the places where people and wildlife depend on the same land.
Profile Awaiting ClaimRe:wild
📍 Austin, Texas, USA · worldwide
Founded by conservation scientists with Leonardo DiCaprio; works through 600+ local partners in about 90 countries. A core group of donors covers operating costs, so 100% of public donations go to the field. 4-star Charity Navigator, EIN 26-2887967.
Profile Awaiting ClaimPolar Bears International
📍 Bozeman, Montana, USA · Churchill, Canada
Small science-based charity devoted entirely to wild polar bears and the sea ice they depend on — den-detection research, conflict reduction with Arctic communities, free classroom webcasts. EIN 77-0322706.
Profile Awaiting ClaimInternational Rhino Foundation
📍 Fort Worth, Texas, USA · Africa and Asia
Anti-poaching patrols, habitat protection and the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Indonesia, for all five rhino species. 4-star Charity Navigator, EIN 75-2395006.
Profile Awaiting ClaimSnow Leopard Trust
📍 Seattle, Washington, USA · Central Asia
Founded in Seattle in 1981 and still headquartered here — community-based conservation for snow leopards across China, Mongolia, India, Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan, including herder livestock insurance and the Snow Leopard Enterprises handicraft program. 4-star Charity Navigator, EIN 91-1144119.
Profile Awaiting ClaimBat Conservation International
📍 Austin, Texas, USA · worldwide
Research, habitat protection and the fight against white-nose syndrome, which has wiped out more than 90% of some once-common North American bats. Bats are pest control, pollinators and seed dispersers. EIN 74-2553144.
Profile Awaiting ClaimVital Ground Foundation
📍 Missoula, Montana, USA
Accredited land trust that buys and protects the private-land corridors grizzly bears need to move between wild strongholds from Yellowstone into Canada — just over a million acres so far. 4-star Charity Navigator, EIN 87-0483446.
Profile Awaiting ClaimAlaska Wildlife Alliance
📍 Anchorage, Alaska, USA
The only statewide, Alaska-founded nonprofit dedicated solely to Alaska's wildlife — wolves, bears and marine mammals — fighting state-sponsored predator control in court and at the Board of Game since 1978. EIN 92-0073877.
Profile Awaiting ClaimTurtle Island Restoration Network
📍 Olema, California, USA · Gulf of Mexico · Pacific
Hands-on marine advocate protecting sea turtles, whales and sharks from industrial fishing gear and drilling, and restoring coho salmon streams in California.
Profile Awaiting ClaimWildlife Conservation Network
📍 San Francisco, California, USA · 69 countries
A funding network for independent field conservationists — cheetahs, painted dogs, spectacled bears, pangolins and more. Every donation designated to a species goes 100% to the field; WCN covers the transfer fees itself. 100/100 Charity Navigator, EIN 30-0108469.
Profile Awaiting ClaimAnimals Asia
📍 Hong Kong · Vietnam and China
Has rescued nearly 700 bears from bile farms into its three sanctuaries and is working with the Vietnamese government to close the last bear-bile farms in the country. Also campaigns on cat and dog meat and captive-animal welfare.
Profile Awaiting ClaimCenter for Biological Diversity
📍 Tucson, Arizona, USA
Legal and science group that sues to protect endangered species and their habitat — from cyanide bombs used to kill predators on public land to Endangered Species Act rollbacks. US nonprofit, 4-star Charity Navigator.
Verified PartnerEarthjustice
📍 San Francisco, California, USA
Public-interest environmental law organisation founded in 1971, representing clients in court free of charge. US nonprofit, EIN 94-1730465.
Profile Awaiting ClaimWomen for Wolves
📍 USA
Protecting wolves and wildlife through conservation, coexistence education, advocacy, and sanctuary care.
Issue & EducationProtect Habitats for All Life
📍 Global
Healthy habitats support wildlife, people, and future generations.
Profile Awaiting ClaimSheldrick Wildlife Trust
📍 Kenya
Rescuing and hand-rearing orphaned elephants and rhinos since 1977, then reintegrating them into wild herds in Tsavo. Also runs mobile veterinary units and anti-poaching teams.
Profile Awaiting ClaimFree to be Wild
📍 Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s first centre built to return primates to the wild, now taking all species — monkeys, kudu, warthog, vultures. Runs the school education programme that addresses why the orphans arrive at all.
Profile Awaiting ClaimCottontail Cottage Wildlife Rehab
📍 Rye Brook, Westchester County, New York
NY State licensed rehabbers specialising in orphaned neonate cottontails — one of the hardest species to raise — plus opossums and a dedicated off-site bat flight facility. All volunteer, donation funded, with a 24/7 wildlife hotline. US nonprofit, EIN 93-1736719.
Ways to Protect Our Planet
Volunteer Outside
Join habitat restoration and cleanup events.
Plant Native
Support pollinators and wildlife with native plants.
Reduce & Protect
Make choices that reduce harm to the environment.
Support Conservation
Donate to protect endangered species and wild places.
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