Our mission is to advance the long-term preservation of nature and biodiversity in the tropics and other priority areas worldwide.
About Biome
About Us
Biome is Canada’s leading international conservation organization, with projects in more than 30 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Key to our success is our model of working in partnership with locally based conservation organizations—our wonderful field partners. They know best what needs doing and how to go about it.
See our Conservation Heroes page that features some of our field partners.
Our work is science based and we are committed to engaging local communities and securing lasting conservation gains in priority areas.
Biome’s small staff works with a sense of urgency because we can see how much we’re achieving.
See Our Impact page for highlights.
More Information
Why the tropics?
One-pager: About Biome
Answers to donors' questions on the responsibility of Canadians and risk
Biome 2030 Strategic Plan
Our project selection criteria
Biome Conservation is a registered Canadian charity: # 85247 8189 RR0001
Awards and Recognition
- Biome won the 2020 Nature Inspiration Award from the Canadian Museum of Nature.
- Biome was the top ranked conservation charity in Canada in the Financial Post’s 2017 charity ratings (the last done by FP).
- We are rated five out of five stars by Charity Intelligence Canada and are on their list of the top hundred charities in Canada.
- Our Mali Elephant Project was awarded the prestigious Equator Prize in 2017 by the United Nations.
- Our project in Cambodia received the National Geographic Society’s Marine Protection Prize and is a Mission Blue “Hope Spot”.
- Project field personnel have received the Disney Conservation Hero Award (a project field manager, name withheld for safety reasons), the Whitley Award (Carlos Vasquez Almazan, Guatemala, Caleb Ofori-Boateng, Ghana, and Dominique Bikaba, DRC), and the Indianapolis Prize (Amanda Vincent, marine conservation).
- Finally, board member Ruthmery Pillco Huarcaya has been awarded the Future For Nature Award for 2025.
Now in a moment when many are wrongly turning their heads away from protected areas in the Amazon, ICFC stands out for its clarity of vision and consistency. Protected areas are our best insurance and there is only one chance to stand up for their long term viability and ICFC is taking it.
Enrique Ortiz
Peruvian conservationist and co-founder of the Amazon Conservation Association