Wildlife Conservation and Regenerative Futures

The Earthshot Prize:
Making Optimism Operational

We’re supporting Earthshot’s mission to accelerate bold solutions through the following efforts:

  • Identify solutions that Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste-free World, and Fix our Climate.
  • Inspire action and investment through Launchpad—Earthshot's platform that connects innovators with funders to drive global product rollouts and major investments.​
  • Shortlist 15 finalists and select 5 winners annually to help scale their impact.​
The Earthshot Prize: Making Optimism Operational

IBIS Rice:
Conservation Through Community Partnership

This partnership supports IBIS Rice’s mission to protect biodiversity and strengthen local livelihoods, including efforts to:

  • Expand farmer recruitment from 2,000 to 5,000 participating farmers by 2032.​
  • Deliver an estimated 2 million tons of avoided CO₂ emissions over the next 10 years, supported through forest conservation and sustainable agriculture.​
  • Conserve 500,000 hectares of critical wetland and forest habitat.​
  • Protect 50 endangered species, including approximately 200 giant ibises (Cambodia’s national bird), along with elephants and gaur (Indian Bison).​
  • Create USD 20 million conservation enterprise by 2032.​
IBIS Rice: Conservation Through Community Partnership

Why it matters

Nature is a source of joy and restoration that everyone should be able to share in. That’s why we’re committed to finding solutions for the environmental crisis at hand. From conservation efforts that empower local communities to transformative solutions that need to be scaled, we’re investing in a future where restoring our planet is no longer a distant dream.

How it’s unfolding

Through the Earthshot Prize, EESF helps to mobilize a decade of environmental action to repair our planet. The Prize has catalyzed over £90 million in follow-on funding and supported more than 60 environmental pioneers worldwide. It spotlights the best examples of climate leadership and problem-solving from around the world to show that the answers to our environmental problems already exist, and then it goes on to help them scale.

For 50 years, the Giant Ibis was considered extinct in Cambodia. Its rediscovery in 2000 sparked a conservation model that puts local communities at the center of forest protection. Ibis Rice has recruited over 2,700 farmers who now receive premium prices for wildlife-friendly rice, helping protect over 500,000 hectares of critical habitat and the last remaining population of the giant ibis. With a new facility increasing production by 600%, this model sets out to prove that sustainability can be both community-driven and economically viable.

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