Fauna & Flora International (FFI)

Fauna & Flora is an international wildlife conservation charity. We work closely with conservation partners in well over 40 countries to save nature, together.

Our focus is on protecting and restoring habitats, saving species from extinction and developing sustainable livelihoods for those living closest to nature.

Our people are based around the world; supporting projects on the ground in-country and providing technical and operational expertise from our UK head office, and from regional offices across the globe.

We’ve been using the collective knowledge and experience of our people and our partners to protect biodiversity in all corners of the planet for more than 120 years.

Today, we apply our expertise across a range of issues affecting nature – whether that’s habitat destruction, illegal wildlife trade or unsustainable resource use. Climate change or plastic pollution. Corporate sustainability or global policy.
Our mission

We exist to protect the diversity of life on Earth. For the survival of the planet and its people.

HOW WE WORK
Fauna & Flora strongly believes – and our experience shows us – that those living closest to nature have the best knowledge and experience of their local environment, and therefore should be at the heart of all conservation strategies and actions. This belief is reflected in our partnership-led conservation model.

We use our international experience, networks and resources to help establish and drive strategies to save nature, but these strategies can only be effective in the long term if they are delivered in close collaboration with local people and organisations.

HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENTS
1903
The Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire (later to become FFI) is established.
1926
Fauna & Flora helps to establish Kruger National Park in South Africa.
1933
Fauna & Flora is the driving force behind the world’s first international wildlife conservation treaty.
1962
Fauna & Flora launches ‘Operation Oryx’ to save the Arabian oryx – the first ever example of an animal being successfully reintroduced into its original habitat after being declared extinct in the wild.
1978
Fauna & Flora establishes the Mountain Gorilla Project, a long-term partnership that has helped rescue this great ape from extinction and seen the population rise to over 1,000, a fourfold increase since the work began.
1995
Fauna & Flora and partners rescue the world’s rarest snake from extinction, taking the Antiguan racer population from 50 snakes on a tiny islet to over 1,100 individuals at four separate sites.
2000
Fauna & Flora and partners discover over 400 new species, and rediscover the Siamese crocodile, during surveys of Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains.
2018
Fauna & Flora and coalition partners secure UK ban on plastic microbeads.
2022
Fauna & Flora and partners take action to conserve over 90 threatened tree species in 12 countries worldwide, boosting the global populations of critically endangered species including magnolia, pear and rosewood.