Animal Protection (2010 Q1)

Featured beneficiary in the ANIMAL PROTECTION category for first quarter 2010:

WILDLIFE TRUST

Charity Navigator rating:

Annual budget: $6.6 million (as of 6/07)

Wildlife Trust is an international organization of scientists dedicated to the conservation of biodiversity. For more than 35 years, Wildlife Trust has focused its efforts on conservation. Today, we are known for our innovative research on the intricate relationships between wildlife, ecosystems and human health.

Wildlife Trust’s work spans the U.S. and more than 20 countries in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia to research ways for people and wildlife to share bioscapes for their mutual survival. Our strength is built on our innovations in research, education and training and our accessibility to international conservation partners.

Our dedicated scientific teams currently head programs in Florida and along the coast of the Southeastern U.S. Internationally, our programs support conservationists in over a dozen countries at the local level to save endangered species and their habitats and to protect delicate ecosystems for the benefit of wildlife and humans.

We believe the key to success is long-term, grassroots involvement. Wildlife Trust, a conservation science innovator, specializes in saving biodiversity in human-dominated bioscapes where ecological health is most at risk because of habitat loss, species imbalance, pollution and other environmental issues caused by human-induced change.