Fauna and Flora International

Description

Fauna & Flora is an international wildlife conservation charity headquartered in Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.

It was founded in 1903 as the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire and took its current name in 1995. It works with conservation partners in dozens of countries across the Caribbean, Central America, Africa, Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific to protect and restore habitats, save species from extinction and build sustainable livelihoods for people living close to nature.

Its approach is partnership-led: staff and local organisations, governments and communities work together, with Fauna & Flora offering funding, technical expertise and operational support so partners can eventually manage conservation locally themselves. Past and current work includes species reintroduction programmes such as Operation Oryx, the Mountain Gorilla Project in Rwanda, crocodile conservation in Cambodia, and campaigns against microbeads and deep sea mining. It also publishes the peer-reviewed journal Oryx, founded in 1904, and the Cambodian Journal of Natural History.

The charity has sister organisations in the United States and Australia and a subsidiary in Singapore.