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WCN Annual Report 2017 2017ANNUAL REPORT 1 Our Mission This year showed us why we have hope. Despite significant challenges, we were reminded that there is no limit to what we can achieve when we work together. Amidst floods and droughts, conflict and disease, our Conservation Partners and our supporters relentlessly followed WCN protects endangered species their commitment to create a better, safer world for wildlife. The teamwork and passion we saw among and preserves their natural habitats conservationists, donors, nonprofits, and local communities filled us with optimism. Fortitude and collaboration prevailed, and we ended 2017 with more hope and determination than when we started. by supporting entrepreneurial We are humbled and inspired by the ongoing commitment of our supporters which has enabled us to conservationists who pursue accomplish so much for wildlife. With this support, our Conservation Partners made great strides for innovative strategies for people endangered species on nearly every continent this year. They have protected wildlife from poaching operations—confiscating snares, increasing patrols, and bringing criminals to justice—they have and wildlife to co-exist and thrive. vaccinated painted dogs and Ethiopian wolves against disease, changed negative perceptions about cheetahs and sharks, and protected priceless habitat in forests, mountains, savannahs, and oceans. With your support, WCN has also made our biggest impact for wildlife yet. This year we raised over $21 million for conservation and maintained a perfect 100 score on Charity Navigator. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Confronted with the distressing reality that Africa has lost half of its lions, this year we launched David Berger the Lion Recovery Fund in partnership with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to support the best Christine Hemrick Charles Knowles ideas to bring lions back. Additionally, the Elephant Crisis Fund supported some of the most effective John Lukas efforts in the ongoing fight against the ivory crisis, funding an incredible coalition of 57 organizations Rebecca Patton implementing 169 projects in 31 countries. Bill Unger Akiko Yamazaki Though some of the challenges we faced in 2017 will persist in the years ahead, we are heartened in knowing we work with the right people, the right projects, in the right places to conquer these problems. We are confident that with passionate and determined conservationists and donors working STAFF together, the best ideas and actions to protect wildlife will triumph. WCN, our Conservation Partners, Veleta Allen, Chief Financial Officer and our donors will never give up; for this reason, we know there is hope for wildlife. Stephanie Carnow, Director of Marketing and Communications Jean-Gaël “JG” Collomb, PhD, Executive Director Thank you for being a part of the Network and for helping to build a brighter future for wildlife. Sophie Croen, Events Manager Seret Dirar, Staff Accountant Charles Knowles, President Peter Lindsey, PhD, Conservation Initiatives Director Randy Mazzuca, Program Assistant Pooja Menon, Marketing and Communications Coordinator Charles Knowles, Jean-Gaël Collomb, PhD Jeffrey “Jefe” Parrish, PhD,Vice President for Conservation President and Co-Founder Executive Director Rebecca Patton, Vice President Madison Pruett, Administrative Assistant and Office Manager Pauline Russell, Donor Engagement Data Manager Becca Stievater, Grants Manager Paul Thomson, Lead, Conservation Strategies and Outreach Joyce Wang, Conservation Network Manager Kelly Wilson, Director of Donor Engagement Thanks to Eve Schaeffer for her work as Program Manager and to Dave Cortright for his work as Director of Technology in 2017. Cover photo © Frans Lanting / lanting.com 1 .WCN’s Strategies TO PROTECT WILDLIFE . A NETWORK OF WORLD-CLASS CRISIS AND RECOVERY FUNDS: CONSERVATION PARTNERS URGENT SUPPORT FOR THREATENED WILDLIFE NEVER UNDERESTIMATE WHAT A FEW COMMITTED A WILDLIFE CRISIS OR LARGE-SCALE RECOVERY OF A SPECIES DEMANDS INDIVIDUALS CAN DO FOR A THREATENED SPECIES. SUPPORT FOR THE BEST ACTIONS FROM ANY INSTITUTION. We seek out and invest in grassroots conservationists and their entrepreneurial The Crisis and Recovery Fund model was created to address threats to wildlife that need organizations committed to protecting endangered species and helping wildlife and people urgent support and to bring wildlife back from the brink. Our Funds identify and vet the best coexist. We offer these Partners long-term support in a variety of ways, providing financial ideas from any institution, regardless of their size or stature, that are designed to stop resources for their conservation programs and the tools and services they need a crisis and recover wildlife populations. to continue doing what they do best—save wildlife. We connect our Partners We give Partners training to WCN’s Network provides a Crisis and Recovery Funds The Funds vet and support The Funds focus on with generous and visionary strengthen or learn the new community in which Partners invest in conservation for the best ideas that deliver on collaboration and encourage donors and offer them fiscal skills they need to make their share experiences, support threatened species beyond the overall strategy to save a everyone—from nonprofits, sponsorship so they have organizations more impactful their colleagues, and make any singular country to species—providing a valuable to conservationists, to the resources they need and resilient—from accounting their organizations stronger support projects across a service for donors seeking to philanthropists—to work to succeed. to communications to by working together. species’ entire range. have the highest impact. together to save wildlife. fundraising. In 2012, the ELEPHANT The LION RECOVERY WCN has a unique approach to saving endangered species. CRISIS FUND was created FUND launched in 2017 to with Save the Elephants to recover lion populations and Similar to venture capitalists, we identify, vet, then support conservation initiatives combat all aspects of the their savannah ecosystems ivory crisis in Africa—working across Africa—the LRF that hold the greatest promise for wildlife. Through our Network we support to stop poaching, trafficking, invests in projects that highly effective conservationists and through our Crisis and Recovery Funds and demand for ivory. To secure the protected areas we invest in the best ideas to save endangered animals. date, the ECF has deployed where lions live and that $15 million to help end the foster coexistence between 100% of all donations designated to WCN’s Conservation Partners or ivory crisis. lions and people. Crisis and Recovery Funds go directly to the field, with zero overhead. 2 3 Our Conservation Partners' 2017 Highlights 2017 was a year of many milestones for our 17 Conservation Partners. Here are just a few of their successes. GROWING WILDLIFE WORKING WITH POPULATIONS COMMUNITIES SAVE THE ELEPHANTS STE recorded 62 elephant births in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. This is a 42% increase from the previous year. CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND EWASO LIONS Educated more than 8,000 kids about cheetahs and the SAIGA Namibian environment through their education program. Celebrated their 10-year anniversary, which included the expansion CONSERVATION of the Ewaso Lions team from 4 to 38 members, and the increase in ALLIANCE successful community and research programs, such as their Warrior Watch and Mama Simba programs. The number of saigas in Kazakhstan has grown by 41% since CHEETAH CONSERVATION 2016, bringing the total to 152,600 individual BOTSWANA saigas. 28 livestock guarding dogs were placed with farmers who were in conflict with cheetahs and 751 community members were trained in appropriate methods of live- stock farming to reduce conflict. NIASSA LION PROJECT SPECTACLED BEAR CONSERVATION NLP’s crafts and design SBC expanded their conservation efforts across group, created in 2016, now more bear habitat by providing an additional ETHIOPIAN WOLF CONSERVATION PROGRAM supports 26 people who pre- thirty women from the community with a steady viously had no work, includ- income through their handicraft “felti” pro- In the Bale Mountains, EWCP recorded 57 pups born from 15 wolf gram—earning an income through conservation families, and an overall population increase of 30%. This is a record ing at least two previously involved in bushmeat snaring. programs encourages these women to work with number of births, especially after the previous year’s epidemic of SBC in protecting the land. rabies outbreaks. 6 7 PROTECTING STRENGTHENING CONSERVATION PROTECTING HABITAT THROUGH SCIENCE WILDLIFE ANDEAN CAT ALLIANCE PAINTED DOG The presence of three new CONSERVATION cats were seen on camera Added six new Anti- traps in an area known for Poaching Unit scouts conflict between people and (including their first three Andean cats. This suggests female scouts) increasing AGA’s conflict interventions patrol efforts by 45%, and are working. the patrol area by an ad- ditional 193 square miles. MARALLIANCE Completed long-term monitoring of large marine PROYECTO TITÍ wildlife such as sharks, rays, finfish, and turtles in Belize, Honduras, Panama, and Cabo Verde; 172 underwater Purchased 187 acres of land, doubling cameras were deployed, and 123 sharks were captured, the size of Proyecto Tití’s biological tagged, and released. GREVY’S ZEBRA reserve, and helping create critical cor- ridors for cotton-tops by connecting TRUST forest fragments in the San Juan area. GZT fed more than 3,500 SMALL WILD CAT CONSERVATION bales of
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