We Protect And Restore Europe’s Wild Areas

The European Nature Trust supports the most effective conservation organisations across Europe to deliver a shared vision of a wilder continent. We fund critical conservation work, supporting a network of pioneering, agile and impactful NGOs. Together, our partners form a collective of ambitious projects each restoring ecosystems for climate, biodiversity and people. We select projects with big visions – those rejuvenating natural processes at ‘landscape-scale’ to restore the ecosystems all life depends upon. We build long-term partnerships with proven conservation groups, enabling them to grow and scale their impact for nature and communities. 

Guiding Philosophy

We believe that complete, naturally-functioning ecosystems are essential; that herbivores, carnivores, scavengers, and all the agents in between, must be afforded the space and resources they need to thrive.

When natural processes are free to shape the landscape, Europe can become a wilder, healthier continent. As nature thrives, the more carbon is stored in natural sinks, the cleaner our air and water become, our soils become richer, and we as humans benefit in reciprocity. Crucially, in reconnecting with nature, we can coexist with the wild ecosystems we need in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, creating a future of abundance for people and planet.

We align our work with the goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework, and other international treaties offering a shared goal to restore our living planet.

Our Project Ecosystem

We support a network of conservation projects, that together, form a collective of unified and ambitious partners. From restoring lost forests in the Highlands of Scotland; establishing a new National Park in the Făgăraș Mountains of Romania; saving the Iberian lynx from extinction; to the ‘blueprint conservation model of Belize’, TENT lifts organisations driving the recovery of nature.

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Belize

“A true conservationist knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children”

John James Audobon,
Ornithologist, naturalist & painter