Jean-Gaël “JG” Collomb, CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Community, just lately appeared on the Species Unite podcast to debate the intricacies of defending endangered wildlife like lions, pangolins, and painted canines, amongst others. WCN helps efficient, locally-led conservationists all around the globe, and JG spoke to the significance of WCN’s function as a convener between conservationists and people who want to spend money on their efforts.
“It’s actually exhausting for philanthropists to seek out impartial, efficient, field-based wildlife conservationists. It’s simple to seek out the massive, giant organizations; it’s exhausting to seek out all of the folks on the bottom who’re doing equally nice work. And for these folks on the bottom, who are sometimes native nationals who’ve comparatively small organizations…it’s additionally actually exhausting for these organizations and people to seek out these philanthropists,” says Collomb. “There’s an actual want to attach these conservationists to philanthropists, and vice-versa.”
Jean-Gaël “JG” Collomb, CEO of WCN
WCN rigorously vets probably the most impactful native conservation organizations which might be welcomed into our Community, and this due diligence permits donors to take a position confidently in these unimaginable teams doing essential work. Our Conservation Companions and the grantees of our Wildlife Funds take a holistic method to conservation, ensuring to contain the native communities who reside alongside wildlife in conservation actions, as their data and collaboration is important to creating conservation profitable. These communities then profit from taking part in conservation by financial alternatives.
“We actually imagine that if we need to succeed, we’ve acquired to make sure that each folks and wildlife profit from no matter actions are going down. We’re interdependent, and I feel that’s one essential factor to comprehend is that the challenges that we face are fairly advanced, and so the options are advanced, and persons are on the middle of those options,” says Collomb. “We’ve acquired to seek out one thing that actually works for folks, and works for wildlife, and works for these whole landscapes and all of the ecosystem providers which might be depending on all of this.”
You may take heed to your entire interview with JG on the newest episode of the Species Unite podcast.
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