OUR WORK
Protecting Forests at Scale
Nature and Culture protects large, intact forests—critical ecosystems that sustain biodiversity, regulate climate, safeguard freshwater systems, and support Indigenous and local communities. By conserving expansive, connected landscapes, we protect wildlife habitat, prevent deforestation, and strengthen ecosystem resilience.
We work alongside local communities, Indigenous partners, and governments to strengthen this conservation across Latin America.
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Creating and Strengthening Protected Areas
We help establish new protected areas and strengthen existing ones in places facing urgent threats. When protected areas and community territories form interconnected networks, forests are more resilient, and biodiversity has room to move and adapt.
Forests don’t follow political borders. By supporting landscape-scale planning and collaboration, we help protect connected ecosystems across regions.
In an increasingly fragmented world, many species have less space to migrate, disperse, feed, and thrive. By linking national, regional, and local protected areas, we create vital wildlife corridors that allow threatened species such as the jaguar, Andean condor, and spectacled bear to move freely in search of food, water, shelter, and breeding grounds.
People-led conservation
A Forest Conservation Solution That Lasts
Protecting forests is not a one-time achievement. Lasting conservation depends on stewardship, strong local leadership, and the long-term resources needed to keep protection in place through political, economic, and climate change.
We work alongside Indigenous and local partners whose stewardship, governance, and knowledge strengthen forest protection over time.
CONNECTED FORESTS
Landscape Scale Conservation
When forests are fragmented, ecosystems become less resilient. Wildlife corridors break down, watersheds are disrupted, and forests become more vulnerable to fire, illegal activity, and conversion. Connecting protected forests at scale helps keep entire landscapes functioning—now and into the future.
That’s true whether the individual pieces are national parks, Indigenous territories, protected municipal watersheds, or some combination of all.
We work in some of the most biodiverse yet threatened ecosystems on the planet.
Ecosystems We Protect
An ecosystem is comprised of all living things that share an environment, from plants and animals to microscopic organisms. Ensuring the integrity and health of whole ecosystems provides habitat for wildlife and important ecosystem services for all life.
Preventing Irreplaceable Loss
Threats to Forests and What Protection Prevents
Intact forests face growing pressure from deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation. These threats can come from land conversion, unsustainable extraction, roads that open remote areas to illegal activity, and intensifying climate-driven fires.
Protecting forests early—before they are heavily degraded—can prevent irreversible loss. When forests remain intact, they continue supporting biodiversity, storing carbon, sustaining water cycles, and providing a foundation for resilient communities.
How You Can Help Protect Forests
Protecting forests at scale is possible because of supporters who believe in long-term solutions. Your gift helps expand protection, strengthen stewardship, and keep forests standing where they matter most.
