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WWF's commitment to inclusive conservation

WWF staff and local community members travel in boats down the Esis River, Papua New Guinea

© Tom Vierus / WWF Papua New Guinea

Inclusive conservation consists of a variety of approaches that embrace diverse values and visions for how nature should be conserved while providing benefits for both people and nature. Inclusive conservation approaches are critical to deliver wellbeing and equitable outcomes for people as well as to restore and regenerate nature.

WWF strives to holistically understand the contexts in which we work and the dynamics between diverse actors and rightsholders. WWF recognizes and promotes the agency and leadership of local communities, Indigenous Peoples, women, youth, and other groups experiencing marginalization. Beyond rightsholders, WWF engages government, civil society, and private sector actors for collective action that contributes to systems transformation at multiple levels.

Inclusive conservation in practice

Women from the Maasai Lemong’o Women’s Vision Self Help Group in Kajiado County, Kenya, spread grass seeds over earth bunds.

© WWF-US/Jerry Mushala

Human rights in conservation

WWF embraces a human rights-based approach across all our work.

Partnerships

WWF works equitably with multisector partners to develop and implement the solutions that meet the scale and urgency of the interlinked crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, and inequality.

Whole-of-organization change

WWF is committed to transforming how we work to support locally led and inclusive conservation in practice. WWF is guided by a network-wide effort to prioritize work across: our conservation strategy; partnerships; monitoring, evaluation, and learning; funding and business model; operations; and communications.