Are you looking for a sustainable gift idea for your employees? A wilderness sponsorship protects a unique piece of nature for all times. Show that you take responsibility and give a piece of the future!
Personalized, concrete, lovingly designed: You will receive personalized donation certificates with names, geocoordinates and an aerial photo of the protected forest for your employees.
Save rainforest now
Playful monkeys, rare coastal wolves and centuries-old jungle trees - the rainforests of our earth are not only a wonder of nature, but also essential for a livable future. Together with Wilderness International, you can protect them forever.
protects
forever and ensures that
remain permanently stored in the biomass of the forest
concrete use: 1 € protects 1 m² rainforest
good for the climate: Each square meter stores 60 kg of CO2
Transparent: You will receive personalized certificates with the names of the recipients, as well as the geocoordinates and an aerial photo of the protected forest area
lasting impact: your one-time donation guarantees the permanent protection of the area
Tax-deductible donation with donation receipt
Flexible amount: As a donation gift regardless of the non-cash benefit exemption limit
You would like to give your small team a gift as a token of appreciation? Your company would like to give a gift to a large number of employees in an uncomplicated way?
Whether only a few people are to be gifted or directly several hundreds - the wilderness sponsorship is exactly the right thing. And it's fast and uncomplicated, without time stress or organizational effort.
With Wilderness International, you can create a meaningful and sustainable gift for your employees in no time at all. This is how it works:
Up to 1,000 euros total donation:
Simply use our donation form - one per employee. Here you can:
You'll receive your certificate right after you're done - and you're ready to give away!(1-Min-How-To-Video)
For total donations of 1,000 euros or more, please contact us directly. Please have your certificates ready:
Do you still need advice? No problem. Arrange a brief and informal meeting with our team.
After contacting us, we will enter into an agreement that documents your commitment to wilderness conservation. This way you know your mission exactly and receive text and image rights to use our communication material.
Afterwards you trigger your donation independently via our platform - if desired also with donation request by us.
We will send you the individual gift certificates as PDF files. Decide for yourself whether you want to give away the certificates digitally or in the print version.
In addition, we will provide you with image, video and text material including the Wilderness International logo for your communication. Please briefly coordinate your communication measures with us.
Be proud - together with Wilderness International and your employees, you can now protect rainforests in the long term!
We would be happy to look back on the campaign with you afterwards and ask you together: What else can we achieve with our combined forces?
Cooperation
As a child of the countryside and a farmer's daughter, I grew up surrounded by nature, fields, cows, pigs and chickens. At a young age, I helped with the birth of a calf and was able to explain the difference between hay and straw to my classmates very early on. As a teenager, I became more and more interested in nature conservation and how to treat nature and its creatures properly.
I traveled around for several years and was able to gain many exciting impressions. The indigenous peoples in particular always seemed to me to live in fascinating harmony with nature. I studied tourism management and focused on international sustainable tourism. Later, I worked in destination management for nature and active tourism and supported sustainable tourism projects - and now I have landed at Wilderness International. I am looking forward to working with my team and our partners to protect primeval forests and their fascinating ecosystems - after all, they are the basis of our existence.
I live in the Spreewald and love to roam the woods with my family and our dog Motti. In the fall, we like to go crane watching with tea and lentil soup. When I'm not watching cranes, I'm making music or in the garden.
2.8% of the Earth's land surface still offers intact habitats. After all: 4.17 million km2 of fantastic, valuable nature that we can save together.
One of the many fern species in the Canadian rainforest.
The brown-eared aracari belongs to the toucan family and lives in Peru.
A humpback whale off the coast of western Canada.
Leafcutter ants are the farmers of the Amazon rainforest.
The foundation, which is based in Peru, Canada and Germany, purchases legally secure wilderness areas and protects them for the future. The purchases are refinanced through donations, which ensure the long-term protection of the areas and enable environmental education projects and research into CO2 storage and biodiversity.
Over a period of six months, we were assessed for the effectiveness of our commitment in a multi-stage process by independent experts from the non-profit company Phineo.
The Phineo "Wirkt!" seal confirms that our work has a traceable effect and that we are a powerful and transparent organization. So you can be sure that your contribution is being used effectively.
You as the donor will receive the donation receipt. We will send all information and files to you.
There are no further obligations for you. The donation is one-time, and enables us as a foundation to ensure the long-term protection of the area. The sponsorship is a symbolic one. The forest area remains the property of the Foundation.
In Canada, good legal security helps us, as well as the legal situations and sanctions that even prohibit trespassing, as well as the cultural and historical importance of property.
In Peru, we have additionally started a forest guardian program with local people. To ensure long-term protection, we also have several other measures in place. In general, we visit the areas on regular expeditions to check on them. We also work with local partners who inform us of any irregularities if necessary. The donations per square meter also already include the costs for property taxes.
Like no other, the legal form of the foundation allows a (charitable) purpose to be realized permanently and independently of outside interests, thus achieving the desired effects in the long term. It is thus the most long-term organizational construct currently known. Not even states, companies or national parks are designed for such a long term. This makes the foundation the only one that is oriented toward the lifespan of the ecosystems we protect.
In Peru, for example, we work intensively with local people as part of our forest guardian program. They regularly walk the protected areas and represent our organization in the community. They put up signs, talk to local people about our forest protection projects and confront unauthorized activities if necessary. Thereby, the forest guardians also generate a sustainable income.
In Canada, we not only work with partner companies, but also look back on great collaborations with First Nations. These include a sponsored run and several conservation expeditions with the Cowichan of Vancouver Island, as well as the joint effort to protect the Peel River Watershed with the Gwich'in of Fort McPherson.
