In Canada, Wildlife Conservation International is represented by WCI Canada Foundation. All funds raised from this website are sent to field projects under the direction and oversight of the Wildlife Conservation International Canada Foundation Board.
Purpose 1 To preserve ecosystems through the protection of local wildlife and natural resources.
Purpose 2 To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or a part of the principal and income
therefrom, from time to time, to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the Income
Tax Act (Canada).
Forest for People (F4P) was established by founder and world-renowned conservation expert, Leif Cocks, as a result of his 35+ year career working with orangutans, other rainforest fauna, and supporting the forest communities to live and prosper sustainably within the last remaining viable rainforest ecosystems.
F4P projects not only include direct support to forest communities through projects such as childhood nutrition and education, but also helping the communities develop sustainable forms of agriculture under the rainforest canopy. And further, helping source both markets and fair prices for the commodities produced. Other initiatives include the support for sustainable eco tourism.
F4P works to support both ‘hunter gather’ and ‘slash and burn agriculture’ communities. Both practices were sustainable over centuries, until their ancestral lands have been eroded by the conversion into unsustainable mono cultures, such as palm oil and pulp paper.
It is our goal to help the transition to new agricultural practices, such as jungle rubber, shade coffee, and vanilla, etc. under the rainforest canopy, so that the communities can live and prosper sustainability within the last variable rainforest ecosystems, along with the natural fauna and flora.
All forest communities live and prosper within sustainable rainforest ecosystems.
To ensure forest communities prosper in harmony with the flora and fauna.
Since its formation in 1998, Wildlife Conservation International has contributed more than USD$20 million directly into orangutan conservation projects and has earned a reputation amongst its partners and donors for being financially responsible and transparent.
We are committed to making sure your donations work as hard as possible. We don’t have an office - each member of our team works from their own home, using their own electricity, internet and infrastructure. This helps keep our overheads amongst the very lowest in the sector, and ensures as much of your donation as possible goes straight to where it’s needed most.
We are also working hard to increase and secure our future income streams. Our big goal is to raise USD$13 million dollars every year for ten years, until we can make each ecosystem economically as well as environmentally sustainable, because we know that’s the only way we can secure the long term survival of rainforest ecosystems. And we will achieve this, with your help!
Summary of Achievements in 2022/23
Wildlife Conservation International Canada Foundation (WCI Canada) is the Canadian affiliate of the umbrella organization of Wildlife Conservation International (WCI) founded in 1998, and that oversees The Orangutan Project (TOP), the International Elephant Project, the International Tiger Project, and Forests for People. Through securing the survival of these three Critically Endangered species and negating local and forest communities we safeguard whole ecosystems, preserve biodiversity and achieve sustainable outcomes for forest communities.
Through these projects we engage support for, and fund species-specific conservation, biodiversity, habitat protection and a sustainable economic future.
WCI Canada, also operating under TOP Canada, formed a team in Sumatra Indonesia as an exclusively Canadian project set up in 2020 to provide us with the ability to be a tax-deductible charity in Canada. For this project WCI Canada/TOP Canada use a local intermediary organization, The Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP), to carry out our activities, but we maintain direction and control over the resources that we transfer to this intermediary, and make sure those resources are being used to further the charity's charitable purposes. At that time there was no permanent presence of an orangutan rescue team in provinces of North Sumatra and Aceh, Sumatra Indonesia. This team, based in the city of Medan adopted WCI’s integrated approach, a carefully considered four-pronged strategy which meets the challenges with maximum effectiveness and efficiency and furthers our charity's charitable purposes. These include investigating and legally protecting illegal land clearing; securing and restoring and patrolling orangutan, elephant and tiger habitat; rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing these apex species into safe protected eco-systems; and educating and empowering local and forest communities in the benefits of wildlife conservation. Since legislative changes in 2023, through a grant process we can now also support other WCI projects where the needs align with our goals and our above charitable purposes and activities.
For more information about our achievements, fundraising and distributions of funds visit our latest Impact Report.
Wildlife Conservation International commissionscomissions an independent accounting firm to audit our organisation each year, SW Audit. The audit information is submitted to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) and other regional authorities where required.
View 2023-2024 Audited Financial Statement (Wildlife Conservation International Limited)
View 2023-2024 Audited Financial Statement (Australian Orangutan Project)
View 2022-2023 Audited Financial Statement (Wildlife Conservation International Limited)
View 2022-2023 Audited Financial Statement (Australian Orangutan Project)
View 2021-2022 Audited Financial Statement (Wildlife Conservation International Limited)
View 2021-2022 Audited Financial Statement (Australian Orangutan Project)
View 2020-2021 Audited Financial Statement (Wildlife Conservation International Limited)
View 2020-2021 Audited Financial Statement (Australian Orangutan Project)
View 2019-2020 Audited Financial Statement (Wildlife Conservation International Limited)
View 2019-2020 Audited Financial Statement (Australian Orangutan Project)
View 2018-2019 Audited Financial Statement (Wildlife Conservation International Limited)
View 2018-2019 Audited Financial Statement (Australian Orangutan Project)
View 2017-2018 Audited Financial Statement
View 2016-2017 Audited Financial Statement
Wildlife Conservation International is committed to social equity within all of our conservation projects and programs, and within our organisation. This is consistent with the essential characteristics of our organisation’s mission and concern for social justice and equity.
Wildlife Conservation International will at all times endeavour to:
Wildlife Conservation International will not discriminate based on a person’s: race, colour, national or ethnic origin, nationality, religion, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, intellectual or physical impairment and disability.
Wildlife Conservation International complies with all relevant legislation in its pursuit of equal employment opportunities.
