Some Conservation Groups Worth Supporting

International

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) - manage the official "red lists" of endangered and threatened species
The Nature Conservancy
National Geographic
International Anti-Poaching Association
Wildlife Conservation Society – funding science and protecting wild places
The Jane Goodall Institute – working with local communities to protect their local wildlife
Wetlands International – protecting some of the most fragile and important ecosystems on Earth
Ecology Fund – buying land and protecting it all over the world
Environmental Defense Fund – legal defense for environmental cases
Friends of the Earth – campaigning for environmental protections
Panthera – protecting the world’s big cats – lions, tigers, leopards, panthers, cheetahs, pumas, and jaguars
Small Wild Cat Conservation Fund – protecting servals, pallas cats, lynxes, margays, and many others

The Sierra Club – founded by John Muir in 1892 to protect wild places
National Audubon Society – enjoying and protecting American birds since 1898
National Wildlife Federation
American Rivers – protecting and restoring fragile river ecosystems
Smithsonian Institution, especially their Zoo and their Natural History Museum
Defenders of Wildlife – protecting American wildlife in court and on Capitol Hill
EarthJustice – “because the earth needs a good lawyer"
Union of Concerned Scientists – uniting scientists in studying environmental issues
Chesapeake Bay Foundation – protecting the world’s largest estuary and all that live there
Wild Earth Guardians – protecting the wildlife of the American northwest
North American Bear Center
Project Coyote – advocates for the often-misunderstood coyote and other American predators
The Cougar Fund – protecting America’s big cat, also known as a puma or a mountain lion
Yellowstone to Yukon – a joint Canadian-American venture seeking to protect wildlife
Nature Canada – protecting Canada’s wild places
David Suzuki Foundation – creating sustainable policies for Canada

Amazon Conservation Association
Rainforest Alliance – working with indigenous peoples to protect rainforests, one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet
Charles Darwin Foundation – protecting the unique wildlife of the Galapagos Islands

South African National Parks
Save the Rhino
Save Pangolins – protecting the world’s most trafficked animal
Cheetah Conservation Fund
Painted Dog Conservation – also known as African wild dogs or hunting dogs
Save the Elephants
Wild Chimpanzee Foundation
Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) – protecting chimps, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans
Chengeta Wildlife – training park rangers to protect wildlife against poachers
Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) – transforming poachers into farmers and conservationists by getting them out of poverty
Ol Pejeta Conservancy – protecting rhinos, chimpanzees, and other wildlife

Conservation India
Save the Orangutan
Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) – protecting organgutans, chimps, bonobos, and gorillas
Free the Bears – rescuing Asiatic bears held captive and “milked” for bile, for traditional medicine
Save Pangolins – protecting the world’s most trafficked animal
Save the Elephants

Oceana – creating marine reserves and campaigning for marine protections
Marine Conservation Institute
Island Conservation – protecting the world’s islands, important sites for ocean birds
Ocean Futures Society – exploring and documenting ocean life, founded by Jean-Michel Cousteau
Sea Shepherd – fighting marine poaching
International Marine Mammal Project
Polar Bears International
Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition