Fauna and Flora International

Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora International is the world's longest-established international conservation organisation and is a registered charity.  Its vision is to create a sustainable future for the planet where biodiversity is conserved by the people living closest to it. 

Fauna & Flora International conserves threatened species and ecosystems worldwide. It bases its work on sound science and ensures that conservation projects take account of human needs.

FFI is working with its partners in both Brazil, to secure forest in and around Cristalino State Park, and in Ecuador, to conserve the Awacachi Corridor, because they both demonstrate the reality of avoided deforestation. In both areas there is direct and ongoing threat to large extensions of forest in ‘frontier' areas, despite forest reserves being established in both areas.

Cristalino Park is legally declared but there is no on-the-ground mechanism to prevent powerful interests from pushing for more forest to be converted to cattle pasture. Neither the State authorities nor local NGOs have the necessary resources to effectively manage or police the area. Cool Earth and FFI will provide them with this ability so that Cristalino can act as a model for the rest of the proposed Teles-Pires Tapajos Corridor. This will block the northwards march of deforestation in an area that has lost some of the largest areas of forest anywhere on earth over the last decade.

In NW Ecuador the Awacachi Corridor's 10,000ha links two reserves, protecting over 350,000ha of Chocó forest. Threats from logging, conversion to oil palm, and exploitation by the local population need to be countered on a daily basis if this carbon is to remain locked up in this critically endangered habitat. Effective long-term management by local groups is the only way to ensure that this area isn't deforested. This is what FFI and Cool Earth will accomplish.