Life on Land

Healthy ecosystems and the biodiversity of species they support are fundamental to our future on the planet. Life on land creates and upholds ecosystems that provide fresh air, water, sustainable food systems, medicinal resources, and resilience against environmental changes. To date, an estimated 75% of our planet’s terrestrial environment has been severely damaged by human actions and one million species risk extinction.

Half of the targets under the UN Sustainable Development Goals related to poverty, hunger, health, water, climate, ocean and land are being undermined by negative trends in nature.

Biodiversity loss inevitably leads to ecosystems deteriorating, causing social, economic, and environmental consequences. Each species lost triggers the loss of other species within its ecosystem. Protecting keystone species like elephants and rhinos safeguards almost immeasurable amounts of trees, animals, fungi, and plants.
The ripple effects of these species going extinct would impact both ecosystems and human societies immensely.

OUR WORK

Through our holistic conservation efforts in some of Africa’s most affected areas, Wildhood Foundation invests in socioeconomic development to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss caused by poaching, overexploitation and habitat loss.

Since our inception in 2016, we’ve grown to support the protection of 5 million hectares of wilderness across 5 African countries. We’ve contributed to an 80 % decrease in poaching in the area we first helped protect as well as a 400 % increase in wildlife sightings in the same area.