Read our 2024 North America Program Highlights. Our report outlines our efforts to protect primary forests, restore degraded lands, and support biocultural diversity globally. Our North America program focuses on safeguarding old-growth forests across regions like the Cascades, Rockies, and Tongass, with Ecoregional Conservation Assessments (ECAs) aimed at forest protection and wildfire risk reduction. Some of our key achievements include publishing seven peer-reviewed papers, supporting legal actions to stop logging, and promoting home hardening over logging as wildfire prevention.
In Canada, we’ve worked to protect old-growth forests in British Columbia and mapped primary forests in Quebec and Ontario for sustainable wood use. On the global stage, we’ve contributed to international forest conservation policies, particularly at the UN Biodiversity Conference, advocating for integrated climate and nature protection.
Looking ahead, we plan to expand ecoregional conservation efforts, continue advocating for old-growth protections, and grow its global conservation impact, including nominating the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Wild Heritage’s science-based advocacy and donor support are crucial to addressing the biodiversity and climate crisis.
