Maliasili exists to support high-potential local organizations to accelerate the benefits they bring to people, ecosystems, and climate change.

Our mission is to accelerate community-based conservation through local organizations.

Our work is ultimately designed to address the damage and degradation of natural ecosystems—and their value for biodiversity, wildlife, and climate—that is accelerating around the world. Our purpose is to expand, strengthen, and sustain community-based approaches to conservation and natural resource management. 

We believe that talented, motivated, and committed local organizations are key agents of change in the design, facilitation, and support of community-based conservation approaches that drive community stewardship and benefits from land and resources. We believe that through strengthening these organizations, they will be able to increase their individual and collective voice and influence, achieving more sustainable conservation outcomes. 

We believe that improved conservation practices through community action and stewardship will scale and spread through more capable, influential, and resilient local organizations.

Our partners’ work will result in safeguarding critical ecosystems that provide value for peoples’ livelihoods, generate nature-based economic opportunities, protect numerous endangered species, and store vast amounts of carbon in forests and other natural systems.