1. Conservation Finance

Conservation Finance Stories

Tiger caught on camera trap in Nepal

Why tiger landscapes need sustainable financing now

After decades of conservation efforts, global wild tiger numbers have been increasing, but the progress is fragile, and we can’t afford to lose momentum. What’s the next urgent step for them? We must pounce on sustainable financing so that we can continue our conservation progress.

  • WWF Board member Vince Pérez on making time for what matters

    WWF Magazine: Fall 2020
    An avid environmental advocate and renewable energy investor, Vince Pérez first began working with WWF to facilitate debt-for-nature swaps. Years later, his passion for nature hasn't waned.
    Vincent Perez seated in office

  • How community banking empowers women in Tanzania

    March 06, 2020

    In Tanzania, many urban and rural areas still function under traditional customs that put women at a social and economic disadvantage. Fortunately, those discriminatory traditions, norms, and stereotypes are being challenged. Sijali Kipuli from Somanga Village in Tanzania shows us how a social system in savings and credits can economically liberate the poorest people and empower women.

    Sijali Kipuli in a VICOBA introductory meeting attentively listening to the facilitators in 2006.