How we work

A strategic approach

As a conservation organisation, our focus is on addressing the many and varied threats to our planet’s species and ecosystems, as well as looking at the wider world and tackling the drivers of species loss and habitat destruction.

A cornerstone of our approach is working in partnership with others to achieve lasting positive change through locally led conservation. Therefore, many of our projects work to create the right enabling environment needed to conserve threatened species and ecosystems. Examples range from building the capacity of local conservationists to developing community support for conservation.

FFI also plays a vital role in influencing othersto create the right enabling environment for conservation to be successful, and to ensure that nature is put at the heart of policy and business decision making.

sPeCies and eCosysteMs

loCally led ConseRVation

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FFI aims to ensure project decisions are underpinned by the best possible information – whether generated ourselves or by others - to inform learning and practice, and strengthen our conservation activities and impact.

leaRninG and PRaCtiCe

In 2021, FFI made step changes in its ability to demonstrate and enhance the positive climate impact of its projects and partnerships. The science is clear and unequivocal, human induced climate change, biodiversity loss and declines in human well-being are severe and inter-connected crises and cannot be addressed in isolation. The Climate Action at FFI pages in this report provide more detail on our work to address the climate crises in our project sites, and across the wider sector.

Across our portfolio of work, we have projects that speak to each of these areas, and during our assessment of our projects, we have grouped projects working on similar themes together in each impact chain. We have presented similar themes together in the sections that follow.

In the statistics presented throughout this document, we use “we” for the purpose of brevity, but what we really mean is FFI, together with its partners and the communities we work with.

The scope and direction of FFI’s work is led by a clear strategy, which ensures that we apply our expertise and experience in the most impactful way possible in order to help solve some of the world’s most pressing conservation challenges.

This strategy is reviewed every five years to ensure that it remains relevant within the wider context in which we operate. To learn more about this, please refer to FFI’s Conservation Strategy 2019-2023 and our Annual Report and Accounts, both of which are available on our website www.fauna-flora.org.