The Fund for Wild Nature focuses on funding North American campaigns aimed at saving native species and wild ecosystems. They prioritize actions that defend threatened wilderness and biodiversity, supporting advocacy, litigation, public policy work, and related projects that aim to protect the natural world.
The grant program has broad goals of sustaining and promoting biological diversity and ecological integrity. It specifically supports campaigns that aim to save native species and ecosystems, with a focus on defending wilderness areas under threat. The Fund looks for projects that engage in advocacy, litigation, public policy initiatives, and similar efforts, showing a clear strategic value to biodiversity conservation. Projects should have explicit, biocentric objectives, demonstrating how they plan to effect tangible, positive change in the protection of the natural environment. All supported initiatives must prove to be highly cost-effective, indicating that the program values efficiency and impactful results in its funding decisions.