A Disruptive Model for Conservation
Remote areas worldwide are particularly challenged staying financially sustainable and maintaining conservation initiatives and operations. This problem affects private land designated for conservation from inception and intensifies with public lands, which rarely work with enough funding. These fragile environments often play a crucial role in conserving ecosystems and wildlife all over the world.
Up to now, countless for-profit and nonprofit ventures have proven unsuccessful in scaling solutions to achieve worldwide change.
Our model attracts pioneers and travelers who have a deep connection with nature and its conservation, inviting them to participate in the management of the conservation program.
Our dream is to impact one million hectares of fragile land with our conservation initiatives, which we will be achieving with our locally-based, globally-scalable model.
The project consists of a model where lands are acquired for the purpose of conservation, which are first given legal environmental protection, and then less than 3% of land is intervened for the purpose of exploration and lodging. Conservation-driven investors can then acquire shares of the company (and thus, be owners of the whole Reserve), or obtain a ~4-acre land to build their own house. These revenues create an endowment which ensures perpetual funding for the conservation and operation of the Conservation Reserve. The initial revenue will also pay to acquire the Conservation Reserves land and build the infrastructure needed to accommodate shareowners and their guests at the Conservation Reserve.
TNC will lead the design of the Reserve’s conservation plan, in which science and technology play a central role. With this partnership, and with the perpetual funding coming from the endowment’s yearly dividends, the project is not only financially sustainable, but also optimally operated, conserved and explored.
