List of nature conservation organizations

This is a list of nature conservation organisations that primarily aim to protect species, their habitats, and ecosystems.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

List of international conservation organisations

• African Wildlife Foundation - ensuring that wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern Africa
• Bat Conservation International - working to conserve the world's bats and their habitats
• BirdLife International - a global partnership of organisations that strive to conserve birds
• Center for Biological Diversity - protecting endangered species through legal action, petitions, media and activism
• Conservation International - secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity
• Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust - mission to save species from extinction
• EcoHealth Alliance - protecting the health of people, animals, and the environment from emerging infectious diseases
• Fauna and Flora International - safeguard the future of southern Africa's large mammal populations
• Greenpeace - raising environmental issues to public knowledge
• International Anti-Poaching Foundation - created a structured military-like approach to conservation in Africa
• International Union for Conservation of Nature - a partnership of 1400 organisations working in the field of nature conservation
• MarAlliance - non-profit that supports the effective management and conservation of large marine wildlife and their critical habitats with the support of dependent communities.
• National Audubon Society - non-profit environmental organisation dedicated to conservation
• Ocean Conservancy - formulate ocean policy based on saving ocean.
• Population Balance - uses humane education to advocate for ecocentrism.
• Rainforest Action Network - preserves forests, protects the climate and upholds human rights
• Rainforest Alliance - provision of an environmental certification on forestry and agriculture
• Rainforest Foundation Fund - preserving rainforest by defending the rights of the indigenous peoples
• Rainforest Foundation UK - preserving rainforest by defending the rights of the indigenous peoples
• Rainforest Partnership - links communities in Latin American rainforests to partner communities in the United States
• Rainforest Trust - focused on the purchase of tropical lands
• Rare - helps communities adopt sustainable behaviors toward their environment
• The Nature Conservancy - largest environmental nonprofit by assets and revenue in the world.
• Wildlife Conservation Network - protecting endangered species and preserving their natural habitats.
• Wildlife Conservation Society - saves wildlife and wild places worldwide with programs in 60 countries; also manages five New York City wildlife parks including the Bronx Zoo
• World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund - international conservation
• Zoological Society of London - devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats

List of national or local conservation organisations

Africa (and offshore islands)

• Tanzania Environmental Conservation Society (TECOSO Tanzania) - advancing environmental preservation, social and economic development sustainability in Tanzania

Americas

• Ancient Forest Alliance - conserving old growth forests in British Columbia, Canada
• American Prairie Foundation - building large wildlife reserve in Montana, United States
• Appalachian Trail Conservancy - Appalachian National Scenic Trail from Maine to Georgia
• California Coastal Conservancy - government agency that manages coastline resources
• Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team - nonprofit devoted to vernal pond conservation and education in Massachusetts
• Central Park Conservancy - manages 843 acre Central Park under a contract with City of New York
• Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi - Bolivian non-governmental organisation
• Conservancy of Southwest Florida
• Conserving Carolina
• Defenders of Wildlife - works to protect all native animals and plants throughout North America
• Ducks Unlimited
• Golden State Salmon Association - works to restore California's salmon
• Great Swamp Watershed Association
• Izaak Walton League of America - devoted to conservation in the United States
• The Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC) - land trust modeled after the National Trust of Britain
• Miami Conservancy District - Ohio agency that manages flood control of the Great Miami River
• National Wildlife Federation - conservation education and advocacy for Northern American Wildlife
• Nature Conservancy of Canada - help protect Canada's most important lands, waters and wildlife
• Open Space Institute - conservation organisation and think tank in the Eastern United States
• Pheasants Forever - conserving wildlife habitat suitable for pheasants.
• Point Blue Conservation Science - advancing conservation through bird and ecosystem research
• Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) - converted 13,150 miles (21,160 km) of former rail lines to trails
• Santa Lucia Conservancy - land trust and conservation community protecting 18,000 acres in California
• Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy - dedicated to the acquisition of land for conservation in California
• Sierra Nevada Conservancy - state conservancy in California
• Southern Conservation Trust - nonprofit land trust established in 1993; operates six public nature areas throughout Fayette County in addition to an environmental education center headquartered in Fayetteville, Georgia^[1]
• Sierra Club
• The Conservation Fund - to pursue environmental preservation and economic development in the United States
• Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
• Urban Bird Foundation - to protect, defend, rescue and conserve bird life
• Western Pennsylvania Conservancy - 200,000 acres (800 km²)
• Whaleman Foundation - protection of cetaceans
• Wild Salmon Center - identifies and protects the best salmon ecosystems of the Pacific Rim (extends to Japan)
• Wolf River Conservancy - protects the Wolf River in Tennessee

Asia

• Conservancy Association - Hong Kong's oldest non-governmental environmental organisation
• Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
• North China Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydroelectric Power - Chinese public university
• Wildlife Research and Conservation Trust - undertakes field research to promote the conservation of wildlife in India

Australia/Oceania

• Blue Mountains Conservation Society - NGO, conservation of Greater Blue Mountains area in Australia
• BirdLife Australia - Australian ornithological conservation organisation
• Department of Conservation (New Zealand)
• Live Ocean - New Zealand Marine conservation charity

Europe

• European Wildlife - conserve biological diversity with non-state reserves
• Federal Agency for Nature Conservation - Germany
• National Trust of Britain
• Pro Natura - 650 nature reserves in Switzerland (250 square kilometers)
• Ukraine Nature Conservation Society

Cave conservancies

To see organisations that are specialized land trusts managing caves and karst features in the United States, refer to Cave conservancies.

See also

• List of environmental organizations
• List of population concern organizations