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Nature-based solutions to climate change
Fauna & Flora is working in partnership on nature-based solutions that play a vital role in combating and adapting to climate change.
Extraordinary challenges require extraordinary solutions.
Our global team of staff and partners – coupled with over a century’s experience – give us the edge we need to successfully tackle the greatest threat our planet has ever faced: the nature and climate crisis.
At Fauna & Flora, we are proud of the expertise we and our partners bring to the arena. Together, we have both the local knowledge needed to understand and respond to challenges on the ground, and the credibility to help ensure that nature is put at the heart of global decision-making. Read on to learn more about some of our areas of expertise, and find out what makes Fauna & Flora unique.
Nature & climate
Fauna & Flora exists to protect the diversity of life on Earth, for the survival of the planet and its people.
We also recognise the interconnectedness of the biodiversity and climate crises and understand that you cannot solve one without the other. Our global team is equipped with skills and knowledge from across this broad field: from species specialists and ecosystem experts to climatologists, sociologists, economists and beyond. Together, we are using this expertise to achieve real conservation impact on the ground.
Forest stream long exposure, Myanmar. © Jeremy Holden / Fauna & Flora
Forest stream, Myanmar.
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Safeguarding our ocean
Fauna & Flora draws on a wealth of expertise from within our organisation and our partners and communities to tackle the myriad threats to our ocean.
Nature & people
Putting local people at the centre of conservation is a core part of Fauna & Flora’s philosophy, and we have a team of experts dedicated to ensuring that this ethos is embedded effectively into our work on the ground.
Drawing on decades of experience, Fauna & Flora’s People & Nature team provides advice, training, tools and mentoring, working with our in-country teams and partners to find practical ways to implement our commitment to rights-based conservation. Together, we tackle some of conservation’s most intractable challenges. How to promote local livelihoods that provide benefits for both people and biodiversity. How to ensure that action for nature on the ground is sustainable, socially just and economically viable.
We offer a range of technical expertise across three interrelated areas: Governance & Rights, Enterprise & Finance and Agriculture.
Our team of experts endeavours to promote conservation approaches that are co-designed and led by Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and supports the creation and functioning of the necessary tenure, governance, and structural and economic conditions for these to succeed.
Areas of focus include social safeguards, gender, governance, agroecology, market systems development, nature-positive enterprise and sustainable finance mechanisms, all of which are adapted to, and driven by, a well-informed understanding of local contexts and priorities.
Harvest festival, Tajikistan. © Rasima Sabzalieva / Fauna & Flora
Harvest festival, Tajikistan.
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Livelihoods & governance
Find out how conservation initiatives can address the needs and rights of local people.
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Making agriculture more sustainable
Fauna & Flora is improving farming methods to help conserve biodiversity, use natural resources sustainably, improve liv...
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Governance & Rights
Fauna & Flora is dedicated to respecting human rights, promoting their protection and realisation within our conservatio...
Explained
Why conservation must be in local hands
An estimated 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity is currently protected by Indigenous Peoples. Their ancestral knowledge and first-hand experience of using nature sustainably...
Nature leadership, partnership & innovation
In every place we work, we encounter remarkable people doing remarkable things.
Early career conservationists. Community nature champions. In-country conservation organisations. Technology innovators. All of them play a vital role in safeguarding our planet and all bring knowledge, passion and expertise to the task. At Fauna & Flora, we work hard to ensure that our staff and all those with whom we work have access to the skills, knowledge, ideas and technology we need to achieve our full potential.
Angelamercy Baltazary (left) and Aichi Mkunde (right) Women In Conservation Technology participants and mentors on the first day of training at Grumeti Game Reserve. © Stephanie O'Donnell
Angelamercy Baltazary (left) and Aichi Mkunde (right) Women In Conservation Technology participants and mentors on the first day of training at Grumeti Game Reserve.
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Partnership
Our approach to partnership and collaboration - we believe this is the only long-term way to conserve our planet.
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Conservation capacity
Discover how we are working with others to help build the capacity of the global conservation sector.
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WILDLABS
WILDLABS.NET connects conservationists, technologists, engineers and data scientists to help them find, share and create...
Nature & the economy
Prosperous economies and a healthy natural world are often painted as mutually exclusive.
At Fauna & Flora we recognise that quite the opposite is true – that thriving businesses and economies depend on healthy ecosystems. Our experts help to reconnect these dots. We work directly with carefully selected corporate partners to achieve better outcomes for nature. We push for best practice at sectoral levels. And we offer real-world insights to ensure that market-based conservation finance opportunities can live up to their full potential.
Fields of crops with hills in the distance, photographed on Lombok island in Indonesia. © Anna Lyons / Fauna & Flora
Fields of crops with hills in the distance, photographed on Lombok island in Indonesia.
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Sustainable economic opportunities
Rural communities often face significant barriers to developing ecologically sustainable, economically viable and social...
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Tackling marine plastic pollution
Microplastic particles are impossible to recover once they've entered the ocean. Fauna & Flora are working to reduce mic...
Illegal wildlife trade
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Tackling illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade
Fauna & Flora has been at the forefront of efforts to tackle illegal wildlife trade for almost two decades.
Publication
Using situational crime prevention to address illegal wildlife trade: a toolkit
Nature & policy
From the collective knowledge of our global conservation community, we know how governments and the international community can help to solve the biodiversity crisis by making informed decisions that benefit nature.
We work to get the voices, experience and expertise of those working in conservation heard by those with the power to bring change – and reflected in legislation and policy changes.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, Glasgow, November 2021. © Annamaria Lehoczky / Fauna & Flor
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, Glasgow, November 2021.
Support our work
Learn more about our areas of expertise and how your trust or foundation can support us.
Trusts & FoundationsRomania sheep dog puppy. © Daniel Mîrlea / Fauna & Flora