As 2025 draws to a close, we are filled with gratitude for the community of supporters who have stood with us throughout this year of learning, listening, and deepening our work with communities living alongside wildlife.
Because of you, conservation has become more community-centered — grounded in connection, compassion, and wellbeing.
Your generosity has helped shape conservation into a practice that honours people’s lived experiences just as much as it protects forests, mountains, and wild places.
Your support made real impact in 2025
🗻 Everest Region (Nepal)
Your support helped local leaders gain clearer insight into how tourism growth, environmental pressures, and changing livelihoods shape everyday life — so conservation planning can respond to real community conditions.
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🐾 Phu Village (Nepal)
Your generosity made possible a Wild Happiness wellbeing assessment in a remote Himalayan community living alongside snow leopards. The findings highlighted what underpins wellbeing — trust, cultural identity, and mutual support — while also pointing to needs related to long-term stability and safety.
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📚 Publications advancing global conservation dialogue
This year, OneNature contributed to the global conservation community through several major publications:
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A peer-reviewed Climate Wellbeing Framework, published open access in Regional Science & Environmental Economics, as part of the paper
“Integrating Community Well-Being into Natural Climate Solutions.”
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A featured commentary in Mongabay on the importance of culture and community in conservation.
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A chapter contribution to the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on Conservation and Wellbeing.
These publications strengthen OneNature’s role in community-centered conservation and wellbeing-based climate action.
🎥 Learning together: Community Wellbeing in Conservation
As part of our commitment to sharing knowledge and strengthening the conservation field, we created a short learning resource this year for our community of supporters and partners.
📺 Watch the session here
In the session, through OneNature’s global case studies, we explore what it means to measure wellbeing, how these insights build trust with communities, and how they help reveal important trade-offs in conservation decision-making.
There’s still time to make your year-end donation
As we look toward the year ahead, your continued support matters more than ever.
With your help, in 2026 we will:
🤝 Collaborate with Indigenous communities in Central Texas to explore community-defined priorities and address the structural causes of health inequities.
🌍 Continue supporting communities in Rwanda, Laos, Kenya, and Nepal as they lead environmental planning aligned with their needs.
🛠️ Support new conservation partners worldwide to place community wellbeing at the heart of their strategies.
Your year-end gift will help ensure that the voices of the people who live closest to wildlife — and whose wellbeing is inseparable from healthy ecosystems — continue to guide the future of conservation.
🎁 All donations will be matched up to $5,000 by our generous board and advisors.
Thank you for standing with us
We are deeply grateful for your generosity and belief in this work. Whether you have donated, shared our mission, or simply followed our journey, your support makes a real difference for people and nature.
There’s still time to be part of this year’s impact — and we hope you’ll choose to stand with us again as we enter 2026 together.
With gratitude and hope,
– The OneNature Team