The Wildlingz Rainforest

Save the wildest places on earth with Fabian and Lukas

Between adventure and conservation

Biologist Fabian Mühlberger and filmmaker Lukas Dürnegger take you on a search for the wildest and most exotic places on our planet on their YouTube channel Wildlingz. Together with Wilderness International, you can protect them forever!

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Mysterious jaguars, wild bats and liana-clad jungle giants - the Peruvian Amazon rainforest is the most biodiverse place on earth! With Wilderness International you can protect this forest forever.

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Protect a piece of the wilderness that Fabian and Lukas explore on their adventures.

Your Donation at a Glance

Tangible: every 1 € donation protects 1 m² of forest
Good for the climate: 60 kg of CO₂ remain permanently bound in living biomass
Transparent: you will receive a certificate with the geo-coordinates and an aerial photo of the protected forest area
Permanent: your one-time donation guarantees the permanent protection of the area

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Country: Peru
Region: Madre de Dios
Location of the protected area: along the Tambopata River, about 30 km southwest of the town of Puerto Maldonado.
Ecosystem: tropical Amazon rainforest

In this video, Fabian and Lukas explain how conservation works with Wilderness International on the ground in Peru, and why it is so important and urgent that we get involved.

Impressions from the Peruvian Jungle

Mysterious jaguars, wild bats and liana-clad jungle giants - the Peruvian Amazon rainforest is the most biodiverse place on earth! With Wilderness International you can protect this forest forever.

In the Madre de Dios region there are 10 times more reptiles and amphibians than in Germany, about 10 % of all bird species in the world can be observed here and on one hectare of forest you can find about 400 tree species, more than in all of Europe north of the Alps.

Weighing up to 75 kg, capybaras are the largest rodents in the world.
Fabian admires a flagellate spider
Imposing buttress roots provide stability for the jungle's giant trees.
Insects look for the "tears" of tortoises which contain rare salt.
When the sun rises over the rainforest along the Tambopata River, the forest begins to breathe.
The Wilderness International team in front of a tree with large buttress roots in the tropical rainforest of Peru.
Ancient tree giants in the tropical rainforest

About Wildlingz

Fabian and Lukas on YouTube

Conservation, expertise, lots of adventure: what's it like to be out in the world's most inaccessible places with heavy equipment? Wildlingz inspires enthusiasm for wild nature and shows what we can lose if we don't take care of it.

The Wilderness International Foundation, based in Peru, Canada, and Germany, legally purchases wilderness areas with land registry entry and protects them for all future generations.

Donations refinance the purchases and at the same time finance the long-term protection of the areas as well as environmental education projects and research on carbon storage and biodiversity.

Protect nature. But effectively.

In our impact report we show you where your donation goes. And what we have achieved together in the last 14 years since our foundation.

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Transparency through Drones

We take to the air for your donations: In order to be able to show you exactly where your donation has been used, we create high-resolution aerial photographs of our protected areas and superimpose a network of exact geocoordinates.

The company Quantum Systems supports us in this. This allows us to create unprecedented high-resolution aerial images of huge forest areas in a very short time.

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Part of the team from WI together with drone pilots from Quantum Systems in the Peruvian rainforest.

Does the sponsorship come with any further obligations for me?

How do you ensure the permanent protection of the forest areas?

In Canada, good legal security helps us, as well as the legal situations and sanctions that even prohibit trespassing.

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.

How do you work together with local people?

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 First Nation of Vancouver Island, as well as the joint effort to protect the Peel River Watershed with the Gwich'in of Fort McPherson.

What does Wilderness International do?

Wilderness International purchases primary rainforest areas with land title and legally protects them for all future. Donations refinance the purchases and at the same time finance long-term protection as well as environmental education and research. Donors receive a personalized certificate with the exact geo-coordinates and aerial photograph of the forest area they are protecting. Thus, the use and impact of the donation is tangible and directly traceable. We are currently working in the temperate rainforest of Western Canada and the Amazon rainforest of Peru, where we are protecting ancient primary rainforests.

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