Cartier For Nature

Cartier for Nature is partnering with the China Green Foundation to protect snow leopards, their prey and their habitats in China’s Three-River Source National Park. Home to one of the most important populations of this elusive and threatened big cat, the area is an alpine biodiversity hotspot. As the source region of three of Asia’s major rivers, it also sustains the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people.

In south-western Zambia, local herding communities and their livestock share the landscape with elephants, leopards and lions, competing for degraded lands and scarce water resources. Conflicts between humans and wildlife are frequent, putting both people and animals at risk. In response, Cartier for Nature’s local partner, Peace Parks Foundation, promotes sustainable herding practices that help regenerate rangelands, deter predators and other wildlife, and improve livestock health. Participating communities become more resilient, earn a more stable livelihood, and are empowered to live peacefully alongside wildlife.

Cartier for Nature has teamed up with COMACO in eastern Zambia to protect wildlife and the environment. This organization has managed to convince poachers to convert to sustainable farming in order to improve their livelihoods. They no longer need to hunt game to sell pelts, ivory or meat, or to destroy the forest to sell timber.

Using a combination of traditional and modern methods of fire management, Indigenous communities protect biodiversity and prevent major bushfires across northern Australia’s vast savanna woodlands. This greatly helps reduce the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere each year. Cartier for Nature is supporting The Nature Conservancy’s work with Indigenous fire managers to develop carbon offset markets and generate revenue for communities who are leading the way in sustainable land management.

After decades of decline, once lost wild species are making a comeback across much of Europe as degraded landscapes are restored and revived thanks to the concept of rewilding. Cartier for Nature is partnering with Rewilding Europe to help nature rebound in Romania’s Carpathian mountains and Spain’s Iberian highlands, supporting the restoration of ecosystems and the reintroduction of iconic animals, from the majestic European bison to the elusive Iberian lynx, as well as boosting biodiversity and the local economy. 

Madagascar’s mangroves, often called “blue forests", are home to an abundance of wildlife, sustain the livelihoods of thousands of people, shelter communities from storms and store vast amounts of carbon. Yet, they are under threat from deforestation and overfishing. To help safeguard these natural treasures, Cartier for Nature supports Blue Ventures, who works with coastal communities to govern and manage mangroves sustainably, and access a steady income from the sale of carbon credits.

After decades of deforestation, Ethiopia’s once abundant forests have largely been reduced to small, scattered fragments around the country’s thousands of Ethiopian Orthodox Churches. While these Church Forests are considered sacred, some of them are degenerating due to fuel wood cutting, overgrazing and a lack of genetic diversity. Our Ethiopian partner organization, ORDA, protects and regenerates these remaining church forests in the country’s northern Amhara province with the ambition of connecting them and eventually using them as starting points for a larger-scale restoration of the surrounding degraded landscape.