Mission

The Phoenix Conservancy's mission is to restore endangered ecosystems globally for the communities that depend on them and the conservation of biodiversity. Our goal is to leverage social enterprise and ecosystem restoration to build self-reinforcing regeneration systems that return degraded land to healthy, functional ecosystems for biodiversity and local communities. Our focus is on the most critically endangered, biodiverse ecosystems (10% or less intact) on a Local (Palouse prairie), National (Great Plains prairie, Hawaiian Dry Forest Mosaic), and Global (Madagascar rainforest, Ecuadorian Chocó rainforest, Andean forests) scale, where we use restoration as an economic and ecological vehicle to combat and reverse: • Mass extinction of Earth's biodiversity • Climate change and resulting insecurity, desertification, and erosion • Extreme poverty and lack of equitable, sustainable economic opportunities While these foci may seem unconnected at first glance, ecosystem degradation and human desperation invariably go hand-in-hand; TPC strongly believes that successful restoration depends on addressing causes of human suffering simultaneously. For endangered ecosystems and the communities that depend on them, restoration distills down to making it possible for humans and biodiversity to survive long enough to adapt and persist, through strategic, efficient, rapid ecosystem regeneration that generates opportunities to improve people's lives.