Natural Habitat Philanthropy

Current Nat Hab Philanthropy Projects

Bike Town Africa

Bike Town Africa

Bike Town Africa began with providing transportation for rural health care workers in sub-Saharan Africa, then schools where students must walk up to two hours each way, and Nat Hab continues to donate bikes for students each year, a game changer for education.

Bwindi School Farming Project

Bwindi School Farming Project

In Uganda, children living near Bwindi National Park now get better-quality education, now including the benefits of farming and agriculture through on-site practice and experiences, and Nat Hab is helping purchase farming and agriculture supplies, including several goats.

FortWhyte Alive

FortWhyte Alive

In Winnipeg, Nat Hab is sponsoring 10 classrooms from core-area schools for environmental education and nature immersion for approximately 250 underserved youth ages K-12.

Great Bear Rainforest Conservation

Great Bear Rainforest Conservation

Nat Hab funding helps Raincoast Conservation Foundation purchase and permanently protect the world’s largest intact coastal temperate rain forest that's home to grizzly bears and other wildlife.

Hope for Madagascar

Hope for Madagascar

Aiding a nonprofit that's reducing poverty through education and conservation, Nat Hab is helping facilitate a school restoration project that will relocate a bat colony, preserve an essential school building, and educate the community about biodiversity.

Kyaninga Child Development Center

Kyaninga Child Development Center

In response to a dearth of special needs education in Uganda, this nonprofit created solutions, and Nat Hab continues its financial support for two more training sessions, parental awareness workshops and adaptive scholastic materials.

Laguna San Ignacio Ecosystem Science Program

Laguna San Ignacio Ecosystem Science Program

Nat Hab donates directly to Laguna San Ignacio Ecosystem Science Program in Baja, Mexico for each of our travelers, and this year we're also helping send project scientists to present their research papers on gray whales experiencing an Unusual Mortality Event.

The Language of Bears: Safety & Tolerance Through Understanding

The Language of Bears: Safety & Tolerance Through Understanding

With a rise in human-bear conflicts, Nat Hab is helping purchase field equipment for the second round of a multi-year study for better scientific understanding of how bears handle social interactions

Lyons MicroPlastics

Lyons MicroPlastics

Colorado students are learning about pervasive plastics and the direct connection between their local river and the ocean as Nat Hab supports their monitoring equipment acquisition and online citizen science database management.

MonteMar Coffee & Conservation

MonteMar Coffee & Conservation

On Santa Cruz Island, MonteMar's conservation coffee supports ecosystem rehabilitation for Galapagos tortoises that graze on their biodynamic farm, which Nat Hab travelers visit before receiving organic coffee we've purchased for each traveler to take home.

Oncafari Jaguar Program

Oncafari Jaguar Program

Having supported Oncafari’s past rewilding and reintroduction of jaguars in Caiman Ecological Refuge, Nat Hab support continues toward research and understanding of ecotourism’s effects on jaguar populations, along with assistance for orphaned jaguar reintroductions.

Orangutan Outreach: Adoption

Orangutan Outreach: Adoption

Nat Hab has adopted 16 orangutans at four different Orangutan Outreach rehabilitation centers for one year, helping provide care for orphaned and displaced orangutans until they can be returned to their natural environment.

Orangutan Outreach Fire Fund

Orangutan Outreach Fire Fund

Orangutan Outreach protects orangutans in their native Borneo habitat, and Nat Hab is supporting their acquisition of firefighting equipment and reforestation efforts to replace native tropical hardwood trees in burned areas.

Primary School in Karatu

Primary School in Karatu

The Gyekrumalambo Primary School in Tanzania needed a boost, and Nat Hab has become the school’s primary benefactor since funding its first water tank, and now helping build a second tank to supply clean drinking water for the school and community.

Save the Simiens

Save the Simiens

In Ethiopia's Simien Mountains National Park, Nat Hab is helping pay monthly wages for local workers who live in remote villages inside the park, a key to sustaining communities, wildlife and landscapes alike.

Past Nat Hab Philanthropy Projects

Arctic Fox Center

Arctic Fox Center

The center features a large exhibit that offers insights into ongoing local research and educates visitors about the life and history of Arctic foxes—Iceland’s sole native land mammal.

Asian Leopard Conservation

Asian Leopard Conservation

The Leopard Trust, a Colombo-based nongovernmental organization, has begun a four-year study of Sri Lanka's leopards—the country's first scientific leopard survey in Yala National Park.

Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center

Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center

Nat Hab has adopted Wawa, an endangered sun bear that lives at a rehabilitation center we visit in Borneo, covering a full year of her care in hope that she will eventually be released back into the wild.

Bwindi Community School

Bwindi Community School

Helping raise the bar for students from kindergarten through college who live near Uganda’s endangered mountain gorillas, Nat Hab is improving infrastructure at a local school, including six new flush toilets.

Charles Darwin Foundation

Charles Darwin Foundation

For conservation projects to succeed, decision makers need to be armed with sound scientific research, and Nat Hab proudly supports this organization's solid science-based conservation in the Galapagos.

Cheetah Conservation Fund

Cheetah Conservation Fund

Funding goes to purchasing two GPS collars that provide valuable research data on cheetah movements and patterns, and ultimately serve to alleviate human-wildlife conflict in Namibia.

Churchill Anglican Church Restoration

Churchill Anglican Church Restoration

In this small northern community where polar bears prowl the shore of Hudson Bay, an important building used for community and visitor programs is receiving some much-needed upgrades.

Churchill Northern Studies Center: Rocket Greens

Churchill Northern Studies Center: Rocket Greens

The Churchill Northern Studies Center is an independent, nonprofit research and education facility. In November 2017 a cutting-edge Growcer hydroponic growing system was installed at the center.

Comupuba Women’s Co-Op

Comupuba Women’s Co-Op

Compuba is a women's commission from Punta Banco, a small coastal town in Costa Rica. Focusing on agriculture and tourism, Compuba's mission is to make natural products with fruits and herbs from local gardens.

Danadais

Danadais

For each Nat Hab traveler who experiences the monarch butterfly migration in Mexico's protected Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Nat Hab donates $5 to WWF Mexico to help support local conservation initiatives.

Darwin Animal Doctors

Darwin Animal Doctors

In the process of improving the lives of pets in the Galapagos Islands, vets are protecting the islands' native wildlife through free veterinary care, including crucial parvo and distemper vaccinations for local dogs.

Ecology Project International

Ecology Project International

Local scientists and educators in the Galapagos are giving conservation a grassroots boost by increasing science literacy in youth through experiential immersion and hands-on research.

Floreana Biodiversity Heritage Community Campaign

Floreana Biodiversity Heritage Community Campaign

Island Conservation is successfully undertaking an ambitious, multi-phase restoration project that will eradicate invasive species and reestablish native wildlife on the Galapagos island of Floreana.

Garifuna Community School

Garifuna Community School

This school, founded to sustain cultural identity and values among Belize’s Garifuna people, is purchasing new traditional attire and drums to use at local celebrations and performances.

Glacier National Park Climate Film

Glacier National Park Climate Film

A Nat Hab Expedition Leader is making a film about how climate change affects pristine and fragile environments, and Glacier National Park is a prime example of these impacts.

Kyaninga Child Development Center

Kyaninga Child Development Center

Kyaninga provides specialist rehabilitation for children with disabilities, including comprehensive physiotherapy, occupational and speech therapy, and inclusive education services.

Little Finches School House

Little Finches School House

This small preschool in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island is a shining example of grassroots education, offering reading groups, yoga classes, textile and art classes, and field trips within the local community.

Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership

Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership

The Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership is a Malagasy NGO that is currently working with local guides and students to study the elusive aye-aye, Madagascar's least understood and rarest lemur.

Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership

Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership

The elusive aye-aye lemur, one of Madagascar’s rarest and least understood animals, is the focus of more intense scientific study in order to better understand how to save it from extinction.

Mbuga School Shelter

Mbuga School Shelter

Ndali Lodge, an eco-conscious property where Nat Hab stays during our Uganda gorilla safaris, is building a secondary school building for the community, adding much-needed classrooms for local kids.

Monarch Mural Restoration

Monarch Mural Restoration

A colorful mural depicting a timeline of local history at the center of Angangueo, the center of monarch butterfly ecotourism in Mexico, received a full-scale restoration by local artists.

Oncafari Jaguar Research

Oncafari Jaguar Research

Oncafari is a conservation and research organization that focuses on jaguars in Brazil’s Pantanal to understand and illuminate how jaguars interact with one another and their environment.

Punta Banco Sea Turtle Nesting Project

Punta Banco Sea Turtle Nesting Project

Community-wide efforts have helped save and relocate hundreds of turtle nests in Costa Rica, and we’ve adopted 50 nests in support of this sustainable turtle protection program on the Pacific coast.

RABEN Whale Disentanglement

RABEN Whale Disentanglement

The Mexican Big Whale Disentanglement Network (RABEN) has attended to more than 120 entanglement reports, freeing whales so they can lead healthy normal lives, free from deadly fishing lines.

Ride4AWoman

Ride4AWoman

Uganda’s Buhoma village women started a successful bike rental business outside Bwindi National Park that is seeding other women-owned entrepreneurial efforts, adding a need for two new sewing machines.

Wildcat Conservation & Breeding Program: Aigas Field Center

Wildcat Conservation & Breeding Program: Aigas Field Center

Aigas Field Center in Scotland is contributing to an important national program with wildlife parks and the Royal Zoological Society to bring the Scottish wildcat back from the edge of extinction.

Wild Macaw Project

Wild Macaw Project

Following a successful reintroduction of scarlet macaws, Costa Rica’s Wild Macaw Association is conducting ecological research, habitat protection and community development in the birds' native habitat.

Women in Conservation: Beehive Elephant Fencing in Tanzania

Women in Conservation: Beehive Elephant Fencing in Tanzania

Women in Conservation educates and inspires Tanzanian women to build careers in conservation. By identifying obstacles, the organization determines the most viable and sustainable solutions.

Yellowstone Forever Wolf Project

Yellowstone Forever Wolf Project

Wolf research and monitoring in and around Yellowstone National Park is critical to the long-term health of wild wolves, and we continue to fund the annual collaring of a wolf for a year of scientific study.

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