Independent · Editorial

Where the work happens

AEDO1 reports on conservation and the deep human past, but we are not the ones out there buying the rainforest, counting the vaquita, or preserving the site. These organizations are. This is a reading list of real, checkable work, in land, wildlife, oceans, and heritage, and where to support it.

A note on independence. These groups are not AEDO1 partners. We are not affiliated with them, we receive nothing from listing them, and nothing you buy or do on AEDO1 benefits them. We point to them because their work stands on its own, so give, volunteer, or learn directly with them.

Land & Wildlife

Protecting species and the habitat they cannot live without.

  • The Nature Conservancy ↗

    Protects the lands and waters on which all life depends, one of the largest conservation nonprofits in the world, working across dozens of countries.

  • World Wildlife Fund ↗

    Works in nearly 100 countries to conserve wildlife and the wild places they need, from tigers and rhinos to forests and the poles.

  • Wildlife Conservation Society ↗

    Saves wildlife and wild places through field science and on-the-ground management, from the Arctic to the tropics.

  • African Wildlife Foundation ↗

    Africa-based since 1961, protecting the continent’s wildlife and wild lands as part of a modern, prosperous Africa.

  • Panthera ↗

    Devoted entirely to the world’s wild cats, cheetahs, jaguars, leopards, lions, pumas, snow leopards, and tigers, and the ecosystems they anchor.

  • The Xerces Society ↗

    Conserves the invertebrates most conservation forgets, pollinators and the small animals that run the living world, and works to cut pesticide harm.

Forests & Land Protection

Keeping standing forest standing, and land in public hands.

  • Rainforest Trust ↗

    Buys and protects the most threatened tropical rainforest outright, in partnership with local and Indigenous communities, since 1988.

  • Trust for Public Land ↗

    Creates parks and protects public land across the United States so people have access to the outdoors close to home.

Oceans

The two-thirds of the planet that is hardest to see and easiest to overlook.

  • Ocean Conservancy ↗

    Works for a healthy ocean, from confronting ocean plastic to science-based fisheries and climate policy.

  • Oceana ↗

    Campaigns to restore ocean abundance through targeted, winnable policy in the countries that govern most of the world’s fish catch.

Heritage & Archaeology

The deep human past, and the places that still hold it.

  • The Archaeological Conservancy ↗

    The only national nonprofit that buys and permanently preserves America’s most significant archaeological sites, more than 580 saved since 1980.

  • World Monuments Fund ↗

    Preserves cultural heritage and historic architecture worldwide, more than 700 sites across 113 countries since 1965, increasingly against climate risk.

Know an organization doing rigorous, checkable work that belongs here? Tell us at info@netfreq.tv. And read the reporting behind these fields in The Conservation Report.

Where the Work Happens, AEDO1