World Wildlife Fund

Lasting conservation is achieved by collaborating with a range of extraordinary partners, from governments to local communities and from businesses to generous individual supporters. By leveraging the strengths of our collaborations, we are able to accomplish our greatest successes. 

• American Red Cross
• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
• Eyes on the Forest
• Government of Brunei
• Government of Indonesia
• Government of Malaysia
• Jikalahari
• The Nature Conservancy
• Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
• Save the Tiger Fund
• Tesso Nilo Community Forum
• USAID
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• U.S. State Department
• Walhi
• Watala
• Wildlife Conservation Society

The Community Forum is developing honey sales, ecotourism and other sustainable sources of income.
© WWF-Canon/Mari Rautkari

Tesso Nilo community forum

In Sumatra's Tesso Nilo National Park, WWF has helped to create a community forum, which directly involves local communities in the management of the park. The forum, known as "Yayasan Taman Nasional Tesso Nilo", represents 22 villages around the Tesso Nilo reserve. It aims to develop new and sustainable ways to derive economic benefit from the forest, anticipate and moderate conflicts, as well as to improve conservation awareness among the local population. This has included support of ecotourism and production of honey from the forest. The forum is also behind the famous Tesso Nilo Flying Squads, teams of elephants and drivers trained to drive wild elephants away from farms and back into the forest, minimizing human-elephant conflict around the park.

Eyes on the Forest

© WWF-Canon/John MacKinnon

This partnership between WWF's Tesso Nilo program and local environmental groups Jikalahari ("Forest Rescue Network Riau") and Walhi Riau ("Friends of the Earth Indonesia") was launched in 2004 to investigate the state of forest conservation in the Indonesian state of Riau. It serves as a clearinghouse for information, and as a tool for local, national and international NGOs, companies, governments and any other stakeholders who want to take action to conserve forests and protect the rights of local people who rely on them. Learn more about the Eyes on the Forest initiative.

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

Co-founded by WWF in 2004, this international partnership brings together some 140 stakeholders to ensure the sustainability of the fast-growing palm oil industry, which poses a particular threat to the fragile tropical forests of Borneo and Sumatra. Members include growers, processors and traders of palm oil as well as manufacturers and retailers of consumer products that contain palm oil, plus various non-governmental organizations including WWF. The Roundtable has developed a set of Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Palm Oil Production and a Verification Working Group to ensure that its standards are respected. WWF is actively working to implement the standards with industry partners in palm oil plantations. Learn more about the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.