Our approach begins with a critical question:
How do you protect a forest for good,
not just for a period of 20 years?
For us, the answer lies in changing who owns the land. Rather than managing a forest as a private conservation project, we work towards transferring threatened land from private into public hands, converting it into a legally protected national or provincial park.
We focus our work on Argentina, where a unique legal framework strictly regulates the National Park system. Once land is designated as protected, this protection is close to permanent and very difficult to reverse, as it is portected by law rather then by decree, as in many other countries. At the same time, the legal pathway to transfer privately owned land into a national or provincial park is well established.
Threatened Forest
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Private Acquisition
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Ownership Transfer
State-Protected Forest
This combination, strong long-term protection paired with a transparent path to get there, is what makes our approach unique.
Whereas many other projects often rely solely on long-term contractual protection, our projects have a clear institutionally-backed endpoint: a permanent, legally anchored conservation status. Different funding pathways make it possible to purchase and initially safeguard threatened land. The eventual transition into a state-owned national or provincial park makes this protection permanent and almost irreversible.
In the interim period, properties are typically held in a dedicated trust that permanently commits them to forest protection, so that conservation is already secured before the formal handover to the state is legally accomplished. It is this two-step model, private acquisition followed by public transfer, that we apply across our project portfolio.
How we fund conservation
Securing threatened land requires capital for the land to be bought before its ecosystem is damaged. Once the land is secured it can eventually be donated to the state for long-term protection.
We combine different funding pathways: