• We keep our overheads to an absolute minimum.
• We allocate funding to where it is most effective; each grant is ring fenced, i.e. designated to a specific area of a project.
• As part of the terms of the grant the recipient is required to provide full accountability for those funds received.
• We have expert advice from our trustees;

ASHLEY LEIMAN OBE of the Orangutan Foundation, an orangutan specialist and recognised worldwide as one of the truly great conservationists of our time.
DR JOHN CHIPMAN, Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a leading international affairs expert.
Also from SARAH CHRISTIE, Head of Regional Conservation Programmes at the Zoological Society of London and an expert on tiger conservation.

We are currently only awarding grants to other charities working in the field, however this does not limit us in the future. With increased funding and with a growing trustee body, we may indeed become ‘operational’ in conservation/preservation projects.

Almost all conservation projects now have ‘Outreach’ programmes which include local communities. It is critically important to involve local people in order to inspire a sense of ownership of a project and therefore a desire for it to succeed. Moreover, the ultimate goal, for any charity, is eventually to relinquish control of the project to the inhabitants of the country and for them to take it on into the future. Charities and NGOs also provide employment opportunities for local people as well as school programmes for education and awareness.

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Whatever may happen in the future, what is certain is that the economic abundance of the modern world depends on the health of its air, soil and water. What is equally certain is that without our wildlife diversity, we will lose our unique quality of life forever.