For more than three decades, Wildlife Trust has been a conservation leader, working to protect ecosystems and all the inhabitants that depend on them. With a multitude of projects in over a dozen countries, Wildlife Trust aims to improve humankind’s ability to save nature and protect ecological health in a world that is increasingly fragmented and dominated by humans. We work with local leaders and scientists in the U.S. and abroad, researching the delicate balance between wildlife, ecosystem and human health.

Wildlife Trust is hard at work in North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia – learn more about our global programs and partners by clicking on the regions in the map below.

NATIONAL PROGRAMS
As one of the few scientific organizations focused on the crossroads of human, wildlife and ecosystem health, Wildlife Trust is at the forefront of global ecological health issues such as emerging wildlife diseases, human-wildlife conflict, invasive species and habitat fragmentation. Wildlife Trust works both internationally and within the United States, with projects in Florida and along the coast of the Southeastern U.S.

Wildlife Trust’s Edge of the Sea Aquatic Conservation Program was created in 2001 to address urgent conservation issues in coastal areas and to save threatened species and improve local capacity for their protection and management. Headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, the primary goal of this program is to better ensure the survival and recovery of species such as manatees and North Atlantic right whales and to protect and preserve the habitats in which these species reside. Wildlife Trust conservation scientists strive to achieve this goal by strengthening the scientific foundation for resource decision-making and policy development and by incorporating the involvement of local scientists and conservationists.

Wildlife Trust’s award-winning Edge of the Sea Aquatics Conservation Program continues to expand with important conservation projects in Alaska, Southeastern U.S., and internationally in Argentina, Belize, Brazil, the Caribbean, Mexico and West Africa.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
Over the last ten years, Wildlife Trust has cultivated an unparalleled network of strongly committed, award-winning conservation scientists in developing countries around the world called the Wildlife Trust Alliance. This network has been a great success because all member organizations share a common vision: that conservation is best achieved through applied science and community-based, cooperative activities designed by local professionals. Established in 2004, the Wildlife Trust Alliance currently has ten institutional members and five individual members.

Wildlife Trust and the Wildlife Trust Alliance are successfully building a unique collaboration of diverse field research programs from the ground up, employing respected and highly-trained local scientists and educators. Looking forward, Wildlife Trust Alliance members plan to increase the capacity of their scientific research to have a greater impact on policy decisions, to continue to develop model projects in conservation and to create joint research and publication ventures among Wildlife Trust Alliance members.