Our Partners
Scroll down to explore Wild Green Future's partners and grant recipients!
Partner/Grant Recipient
WWALS Watershed Coalition
Year of Most Recent Project
2024
WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc. (WWALS, also known as Suwannee Riverkeeper) works to promote clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, waters in the Suwannee River Basin and Estuary, which stretches over 10,000 square miles from the Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia through Florida to the Gulf of Mexico. Their activities range from public education to advocacy, water quality monitoring, and the literal heavy lifting of ensuring public access to the watershed’s creeks and rivers by keeping them clean and clear of tree blockages.
Wild Green Future funded the purchase of two outboard motors, enabling the use of two vessels which WWALS already owned that were in good condition but lacked a means of propulsion, a trolling motor for auxiliary propulsion, and a chainsaw to help with their access work. We also funded the purchase of three prop guards to protect manatees and other wildlife from potential collisions.
As a thank you to the Wild Green Future donors who made these purchases possible, WWALS named one of their boats the Four Good Caws.
You can learn more about WWALS and their work by visiting their website, linked here.
Partner/Grant Recipient
WildDominique
Year of Most Recent Project
2023
WildDominique was founded by local ecologists, agriculturalists, marine biologists, and environmental enthusiasts to support and promote sound conservation practices in Dominica through environmental education, community engagement, research, species preservation, and policy.
Known as the "Nature Island" Dominica is located in the Eastern Caribbean and has been renowned for centuries for its beautiful mountains, forests, coastline and wildlife. It is home to many species of animal found nowhere else, including the Dominican ground lizard (Pholidoscelis fuscatus) and the sisserou, a green-and-purple colored parrot which also makes an appearance on Dominica's flag.
Wild Green Future is partnering with WildDominique and the Zoological Society of London to support their work to conserve one of the most endangered frogs on Earth, the mountain chicken (Leptodactylus fallax).
Learn more about WildDominique on their website, linked here.
Partner/Grant Recipient
Current Problems
Year of Most Recent Project
2023
Founded in 1993, Current Problems started as a small river cleanup group and has evolved into a nonprofit which conducts restoration and community outreach as well as large cleanups across a quarter of the state of Florida.
Their outreach efforts communicate to locals how to be stewards of their land, and they seek to make themselves obsolete by reducing plastic pollution at its source. Every cleanup is zero-waste: bags are compostable, supplies are reused, and no plastic waste is generated from the cleanup effort. Current Problems has between 7 and 13 cleanups every month, and they have removed over 1,000,000 pounds of waste in their 32 years of work.
Wild Green Future provided Current Problems with funding for cleanup supplies in 2022 and supported a paid environmental education internship from that year through the 2023 season.
Learn more about Current Problems on their website, linked here!
Partner/Grant Recipient
Palouse Land Trust
Year of Most Recent Project
2022
Based in north-central Idaho and the Palouse ecoregion, the Palouse Land Trust has been assisting landowners to conserve native habitat through conservation easements since 1995.
The Palouse Prairie is only found in this region, and it is among the most endangered ecosystems in the continental United States with less than 1% of original habitat remaining. With a team of 4, Palouse Land Trust maintains connectivity and relationships with landowners across a 12 million acre region. They have been able to secure hundreds of acres of this prairie type and has contributed to the protection of several threatened species such as the Spalding’s catchfly (Silene spaldingii) and giant Palouse earthworm (Driloleirus americanus). Their detailed conservation plan lists goals for the Land Trust and describes how they will utilize data to create stability and sustainability in a patchwork ecosystem.
In 2022, Wild Green Future provided funding for Palouse Land Trust to hire a paid Americorps intern. In addition to creating a great opportunity to an early-career natural resources professional, this reduced land management demands on existing staff and allowed them to devote more time to assisting interested landowners in placing their properties under conservation easement.
Learn more about the Palouse Land Trust on their website, linked here.
Suwannee River picture courtesy of Richard Barker. Mountain chicken frog picture courtesy of WildDominique.