Mission & Strategy
Mission
Wildlife Alliance is an international non-profit conservation and wildlife protection organization founded in 1994, originally under the name Global Survival Network and subsequently under the name WildAid. We are headquartered in Washington, D.C. Wildlife Alliance has field offices and partnerships in Cambodia, Thailand, and the Russian Far East.
Our field operations train and equip park rangers to fight crimes against nature, and prevent poaching and illegal habitat destruction in Cambodia through collaboration with governments and communities. We improve the management of protected areas, support sustainable development initiatives, and empower countries to enforce transboundary wildlife regulations.
"Wildlife Alliance's mission is to protect and preserve wildlife and forests for future generations."
- Protecting the Wild.
- Stopping the Illegal Trade.
- Livelihoods.
We believe that the protection of the world's wildlife and wild places is both feasible and essential to ensuring that human communities and wild fauna and flora survive into the coming millennia. In developing strategies to conserve wildlife and habitats, we look at the entire picture. It's not enough to develop initiatives to protect a single species or piece of land outside of the surrounding economic or social context. We take the entire area in which we are working into account, including economics and the needs of local people, and work to develop strategies to help communities and wildlife live together peacefully.
Wildlife Alliance then empowers the locals to change their situation by providing alternatives to wildlife poaching and habitat destruction to end illegal trading, and to enable locals to preserve their homeland. Wildlife Alliance also believes that conservation education of local children is an essential component to fostering positive conservation attitudes now and in the future.
