2024
A Vehicle for Conservation
Ashton Biological Preserve is a land and tortoise conservation organization in central Florida. The lands they work on support a number of rare and endangered herpetofauna species, including a healthy population of gopher tortoises, a keystone species in the southeastern US. They also have an active education component to their work, teaching thousands of children in classrooms about the wildlife of their region every year.
Wild Green Future provided a grant for the purchase of an upgraded preserve truck, helping to facilitate their management and outreach work.
Read more about Ashton Biological Preserve's work at their website, linked here.
Sustaining the Brazil Nut Corridor
Most of the world's Brazil nut supply comes from Madre de Dios, where a belt of designated concessions are stewarded by harvesters known as concessionaires. Brazil nut trees’ life cycle requires intact tropical rainforest, so as long as the harvest is sufficient these concessions will continue to support a wildlife corridor the size of Connecticut.
Our partner, Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon, works to assist Brazil nut concessionaires in maintaining the productivity of their forests by holding workshops on Brazil nut cultivation and raising seedlings to be planted in forest gaps.
Sustained funding is vital for the success of conservation projects. Wild Green Future was proud to fund this work for a fourth year.
Funding for this project in 2024 was generously provided by a donation from Angry Birds.
Motors for Watershed Advocacy and Conservation
WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc. (WWALS, also known as Suwannee Riverkeeper) works to promote clean, swimmable, fishable, and 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.
Expanding Conservation Infrastructure
Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon (ASA)'s mission is to conserve the biodiversity and natural resources of the Peruvian Amazon for the benefit of all those who live in and depend on the rainforest. Based in Madre de Dios, they work by combining research and education with community-based conservation, acting as a resource to their neighbors across the region.
ASA's field station, Finca las Piedras, required infrastructural expansions to support greater conservation and research efforts. Wild Green Future provided a grant for the construction of new staff housing, the installation and maintenance of screens and roofing on existing buildings, the addition of new furniture, and maintenance on existing furniture like dining hall tables. This enabled the station to support more students and personnel.
It can be easier to fundraise for certain tasks, like planting trees and conserving charismatic animals, but organizations are often more limited by less exciting factors. Despite their crucial role, these everyday concerns can be much more difficult to find funding for. This mismatch provides Wild Green Future with an opportunity: by funding infrastructure costs, we are able to help expand our partners' operational capacity, leading to much more benefit per dollar spent than might otherwise be obtainable.
Learn more about the Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon on their website, linked here.
Planting for Backyard Pollinators
Habitat loss is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, and urbanized areas present a huge opportunity to increase connectivity and habitat coverage that wildlife would otherwise lack. Access to nature is also important to humans, most of whom globally now live in cities and suburbs.
Wild Green Future gave the Daniels Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History's McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity a grant to enable the purchase and free distribution of over a thousand native pollinator plants to people in north central Florida.
The Daniels lab will also gave a small reward to any recipients who send in a photograph of their plant, well, planted in their yards!
Learn more about the work being done by the Daniels Lab on their website, linked here.
2023
Helping Save the Mountain Chicken Frog
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.
Wild Green Future partnered 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).
The mountain chicken is a large frog which was once common across several islands in the Caribbean, but has faced severe declines after its populations were infected by chytrid fungus, a deadly disease that has wiped out frog species around the globe.
Dominica is home to the last fully wild population of mountain chickens. The island's frogs may have some level of resistance to the disease, adding to the importance of this small population.
Wild Green Future has provided a grant to support WildDominique's work with local farmers, whose lands the remaining frogs reside on, to assist with productive, frog-friendly farming practices.
Special thanks to Angry Birds for their generous donation in support of this grant!
Learn more about WildDominique on their website, linked here.
Sustaining the Brazil Nut Corridor
Most of the world's Brazil nut supply comes from Madre de Dios, where a belt of designated concessions are stewarded by harvesters known as concessionaires. Brazil nut trees’ life cycle requires intact tropical rainforest, so as long as the harvest is sufficient these concessions will continue to support a wildlife corridor the size of Connecticut.
Our partner, Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon, works to assist Brazil nut concessionaires in maintaining the productivity of their forests by holding workshops on Brazil nut cultivation and raising seedlings to be planted in forest gaps.
Sustained funding is vital for the success of conservation projects. Wild Green Future was proud to fund this work for a third year.
Learn more about this project and Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon on their website, linked here.
Funding a Paid Internship
Current Problems is a grassroots environmental nonprofit that conducts trash cleanups across the river systems of north central Florida. Since their founding in 1993, Current Problems and their volunteers have removed over one million pounds of waste.
Wild Green Future provided a second grant to support their environmental education internship for the 2023 season.
Learn more about Current Problems on their website, linked here.
Staffing Conservation in the Amazon
Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon (ASA)'s mission is to conserve the biodiversity and natural resources of the Peruvian Amazon for the benefit of all those who live in and depend on the rainforest. Based in Madre de Dios, they work by combining research and education with community-based conservation, acting as a resource to their neighbors across the region.
Good work takes people power. Wild Green Future provided a grant to support ASA's Lepidoptera Project Manager, Lepidoptera Project Lead Assistant, and Lead Resident Naturalist positions.
Learn more about the Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon on their website, linked here.
Expanding Conservation Infrastructure
Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon (ASA)'s mission is to conserve the biodiversity and natural resources of the Peruvian Amazon for the benefit of all those who live in and depend on the rainforest. Based in Madre de Dios, they work by combining research and education with community-based conservation, acting as a resource to their neighbors across the region.
ASA's field station, Finca las Piedras, required infrastructural expansions to support greater conservation and research efforts. Wild Green Future provided a grant to further expand the flush toilet and waste disposal system begun in 2022. This enabled the station to support more students and personnel.
It can be easier to fundraise for certain tasks, like planting trees and conserving charismatic animals, but organizations are often more limited by less exciting factors. Despite their crucial role, these everyday concerns can be much more difficult to find funding for. This mismatch provides Wild Green Future with an opportunity: by funding infrastructure costs, we are able to help expand our partners' operational capacity, leading to much more benefit per dollar spent than might otherwise be obtainable.
Learn more about Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon on their website, linked here.
2022
Increasing Organizational Capacity with an Americorps Internship
The Palouse Prairie is only found in north central Idaho, and, with less than 1% of its original habitat remaining, it is among the most endangered ecosystems in the continental United States. 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).
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 Palouse Land Trust on their website, linked here.
Cleanup Supplies
Current Problems is a grassroots environmental nonprofit that conducts trash cleanups across the river systems of north central Florida. Since their founding in 1993, Current Problems and their volunteers have removed over one million pounds of waste.
Wild Green Future provided a grant to help provide cleanup supplies to Current Problems's volunteers.
Learn more about Current Problems on their website, linked here.
Sustaining the Brazil Nut Corridor
Most of the world's Brazil nut supply comes from Madre de Dios, where a belt of designated concessions are stewarded by harvesters known as concessionaires. Brazil nut trees’ life cycle requires intact tropical rainforest, so as long as the harvest is sufficient these concessions will continue to support a wildlife corridor the size of Connecticut.
Our partner, Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon, works to assist Brazil nut concessionaires in maintaining the productivity of their forests by holding workshops on Brazil nut cultivation and raising seedlings to be planted in forest gaps.
Sustained funding is vital for the success of conservation projects. Wild Green Future was proud to fund this work for a second year.
Funding a Paid Internship
Current Problems is a grassroots environmental nonprofit that conducts trash cleanups across the river systems of north central Florida. Since their founding in 1993, Current Problems and their volunteers have removed over one million pounds of waste.
Wild Green Future provided a grant to support their environmental education internship for the 2022 season.
Learn more about Current Problems on their website, linked here.