Conservation Allies joins the Nature Crime Alliance

The Nature Crime Alliance has welcomed Conservation Allies as its latest member.

Conservation Allies is a unique not-for-profit that helps organisations access the financial resources they need to make a major impact on biodiversity conservation.

Based in Washington DC, the organisation works globally, mobilising financial resources to support on-the-ground nature protection against illegal activities across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Alongside financing the IUCN International Ranger Award – which recognises rangers from across the planet who put their lives at risk in the protection of nature – Conservation Allies supports a wide range of local and national NGOs to confront environmental crime.

This ranges from strengthening operational capacity of organisations tackling nature crime in Colombia and Ecuador, to financing environmental lawyers in Madagascar to ensure perpetrators are pursued and prosecuted.

Dr Caitlin Eschmann, Executive Director of Conservation Allies, commented: “Conservation Allies is greatly concerned with the growing pressure on wildlife and protected areas from individuals, communities, organised crime and others that threaten the survival of many species and protected areas. There is no time more urgent and necessary than now to work together with multi-sector partners through the Nature Crime Alliance towards the common goal of protecting nature.

“Conservation Allies and our dozens of local conservation partners looks forward to collaborating in the Alliance.”

Launched in August 2023, the Nature Crime Alliance is a multi-sector network that brings organisations together to find ways to bolster operational capacity and mobilise financial commitments to where they are needed most.

Dr Charles ‘Chip’ Barber, Director of the Nature Crime Alliance, which is hosted by World Resources Institute, said: “Conservation Allies does crucial work in supporting those on the frontline against environmental crime. We look forward to helping them deepen their work in this space and find new partnership opportunities among the Alliance network.”

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