Conservation Connection
We are strong believers in sharing our skills and our support, reaching out to and working alongside a few of the incredible organizations that grace this planet. So we have set up a community of charities and community groups to assist us in our work. This ‘Conservation Connection’ partner group will allow for ambitious, long-term collaboration and consistent, focused messaging campaigns for the field.
The initiative is also grateful for its support from tech providers including Google, Microsoft, Canva, Fotor, and Renderforest.
Below are some of the current partners involved in this venture, which launched in October 2019…
Nature needs half
Nature Needs Half is an international coalition of scientists, conservationists, nonprofits, and public officials defending nature at the scale she needs to continue to function for the benefit of all life, and support human well-being. We can stop the sixth mass extinction if we protect approximately 50% of each of the 846 ecoregions but this means finding leaders and organizations around the world willing to align existing efforts around protecting and interconnecting nature in their region. At Nature Needs Half, our goal is to protect 50% of the planet by 2030 - turning the tide in favor of Earth’s life support life systems and transforming society’s relationship with nature, one ecoregion at a time.
Voices for biodiversity
Voices for Biodiversity’s mission is to build a diverse story-sharing community to save biodiversity. We find storytellers from around the world, gather their stories about biodiversity, and then amplify their voices by publishing the stories on our website. We also connect our storytellers with each other through our grassroots community, where they can share thoughts, ideas and resources to help save biodiversity. Voices for Biodiversity diversifies, publishes and expands the reach of voices speaking out on behalf of biodiversity. We do this by encouraging storytellers to find their individual voices, and then offering assistance in preparing their stories, photos and videos about nature to be shared with the world. Subsequent publication on our platform amplifies our storytellers’ voices to our readers, highlighting the impact they can have.
Conservation optimism
Conservation Optimism is a global community dedicated to inspiring and empowering people around the world to make a positive difference for nature. We are committed to fostering effective action, interest and wonder in the natural world, across generations, borders, languages and cultures. It is our belief that being optimistic shouldn’t mean underestimating the challenges faced in conservation. Rather, optimism uses the power of hope to provide motivation for meaningful action. This helps us learn from our setbacks and successes to move forward and find new solutions. Human Nature Projects is proud to be active within their ConservationNOW partnership network.
Global alliance for the rights of nature
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, or GARN, is an international network of environmental advocates and organizations working together towards the recognition of nature’s rights under national law. It’s strength lies in strong community engagement and outreach, allowing its messages to reach large audiences across the globe. Human Nature Projects is honoured to count ourselves among the groups involved in this ambitious venture.
David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) is a highly effective wildlife conservation charity funding key conservation projects across Africa and Asia. Our mission is to increase awareness to people around the world about the need to protect and conserve wildlife and their habitats.
Our ground-based conservation partners are dedicated and professional organisations with a deep understanding of the landscapes in which they operate and our relationships are steeped in mutual respect and admiration, nurtured over many years. More than ever before, we face daily news of the devastation that humans inflict on wildlife and on our planet; news of vanishing species and wild spaces. David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation invests in economically and socially vulnerable communities with programmes that have a real impact, on real people, in real places.
DSWF takes a holistic approach to conservation, recognising the essential role that communities and education both play in ensuring conservation successes. We also recognise the need to tackle environmental and wildlife crime from grassroots to the world stage across all forums and platforms available for change.
Rural development centre (rudec)
The Rural Development Centre (RUDEC) is a Community based Organization with a mission to promote Private/Public Partnership in the deep countryside of the South West Region of Cameroon. During the past ten years, RUDEC has implemented community development activities in Kumba and its environs and has through these activities developed new thinking and practice in participatory community action and community mobilization. All activities have strong links to alleviate the suffering of individuals and families in the poorest communities through grassroots sustainable initiatives aimed at local empowerment, poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability. Their most recent initiative has been to spearhead the Cross River Gorilla Project, championing this endangered species in its few remaining habitat patches.
Conservation music
Our mission is to build a global network of musicians and youth volunteers to deliver environmental education through the catalytic power of music. In doing so, we work towards a global community that stewards the Earth, in which the memorable, emotional, and unifying power of music contributes to the balance between humankind, nature, and society.
The music industry has vast influence and resources that can be put to work for the planet. We intend to facilitate that realization worldwide. It’s time to make this responsibility known by the industry itself, and to make it easy for the music scene to take part in saving our planet and protecting its people!
Greening Uganda group (gug)
The Greening Uganda Group (GUG) is a nonprofit, community-based organisation whose mission is environmental protection and education. It is registered with the Rukungirir District local government (registration no. 2086). It was started in 2016 with the purpose of creating awareness in schools about the dangers of global warming. GUG is set to plant one million trees in western Uganda with the intention of protecting the environment.
An taisce ireland
An Taisce has a uniquely wide remit in advancing policy and action on climate change and sustainable development , quality of life, health and well-being, air and water quality, protection of nature, the Irish landscape, archaeology, architectural and cultural heritage, sustainable food production, energy efficiency, community building and good physical planning. The strength and value of An Taisce is its ability to integrate these issues, in comparison to other single issue organizations.
Common Sense Youth Organization
Common Sense Youth Organization is an NGO located in Sumgait. It was founded in 2006. Its main objectives are healthy lifestyle, ecology, social inclusion and international relations (Erasmus+, Salto, ESC). The target group for local projects are school-children and youth between 13-30. We work with school-children about the topic related environmental issues,and hold local and International projects. Currently, we have ECO clubs at 10 schools that are in touch for our seminars, training and projects.
Municipal alliance for better and smart cities (MABAS)
Municipal alliance for better and smart cities (MABAS) is a non-profit organization that was established in 2017 under the burner of addressing key issues affecting urban societies which include; Health, Sanitation, Environment, Education, Inequality and Human rights, in a planned urban setting for equitable economic growth destined to having a sustainable, transformed and well empowered urban society. It’s goal is growing cities and changing lives so as to address urban challenges through a planned, health and educated society with equal rights under a friendly eco-system.
Youth Empowerment Initiatives Uganda (YEIU)
Youth Empowerment Initiatives Uganda (YEIU) is a youth led organization that started in Valley Hill Village, Lumbuye ward Kaliro Town Council Kaliro district in Uganda. It started in 2010 as a Guild leader’s organization under the burner of higher institution leaders’ initiative in the eastern Uganda, to improve on the skills enhancement, poverty eradication, modernize agriculture, boost human rights, sustain environment, promote patriotism, and fight ignorance, among students livelihood. Since 2010 it is community-based organization, currently reading a total of 2368 members of which 1205 are gentle men and 1163 are ladies. As of now it is a role model demonstrator on integrated youth leaders, and implementer of development and transformation leading to a sound change in the community. It’s mission is to produce a health sound mind skilled youth who are opportunity creators and self-reliant citizens of Uganda.
FOUNDATION FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (FORUD)
Foundation for Rural Development (FORUD) is a NGO that was established in September 2015 and got registered on 21st June ,2016 with the Government of Malawi. It’s main objective is advancing total participation and inclusion of citizens in all aspects of development. FORUD’s vision is a society that formally accepts citizens and other vulnerable groups empowered, protected and contributing positively in sustainable development. It works in various fields including education, sexual and reproductive health, climate change adaptation and environment management, human rights, gender and democracy, rehabilitation, youth empowerment, research, and girls and women empowerment.
barbara asbl
Barbara asbl is is a non-profit organization member of civil society based in the city of Goma. It works in the fields of Environment Protection, Human Rights and Environmental Education. It works to fight against water pollution in lake Kivu and access to clean drinking water by local communities through advocacy, education, and research. It works against human rights abuses in conflict zones and animal cruelty in local communities. Barbara asbl is the first and currently member of the Waterkeeper Alliance in the DR Congo. Waterkeeper Alliance is an Alliance that unites more than 300 Waterkeeper organizations and affiliates around the world and focusing citizen action on issues that affect our waterways, from pollution to climate change.
youth against drug abuse foundation (yadaf)
Youth Against Drug Abuse Foundation(YADAF) is a community- based organization that helps youth to fight against drug abuse and also helps educate the community about the danger of drug abuse to society and the environment. It organizes clean up campaigns and workshops to educate youth about the danger of drug abuse and how it affects our climate. YADAF is also working on an environmental theme called: Tobacco and the Environment, it is to educate youths and communities about how tobacco(cigarette ) cultivation and smoking affect the environment. Looking at the global fact about Tobacco(cigarette) pollution, which shows that 600 million trees are cut every year to provide land to cultivate tobacco and fuel for the drying of tobacco, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts litter around the environment every year, this place a huge impact on our environment because it leads to deforestation and the cigarette butts contain plastic materials and other toxic chemical substance which are harmful to our environment. We carry out sensation and education campaigns in schools and communities to present these facts to them, empowering them to advocate against smoking and to take an informed decision to quit smoking.
We Do GREEN
We Do GREEN is a Certified NGO operating in Rwanda since 2018 with mission to involve youth while leaving none behind in key acts for environmental conservation and climate change mitigation. The organization’s main areas of focus are: Environmental conservation & education; Clean Energy & waste management; Clean water &Sanitation; Modern Agriculture & Community empowerment. WDGO envisions for a cleaner and healthy environment, climate resilience and well-being of people and biodiversity achieved through a collaborative effort.
ifix initiative
Ifix Initiative (IFI) is a NGO that operates under the law of South Sudan ministry of humanitarian affairs and disaster management. The objective of IFI is to promote, advocate and connect youth from all corners of the country without discrimination based on gender, race, class, or ethnicity. The organization aspires to promote diversity, empathy and coexistence between potentials who are committed to building a sustainable country. It is currently implementing project to help Gumbo street children and orphans. IFI is supplying food, clean water and medical support to the Gumbo street children and orphans of South Sudan Juba with the help of Children of War ministers (CWM), a US based organization.
Join our Network
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