Guardians Worldwide

Where we work

Guardians Worldwide

We work in six countries worldwide and across eight different biorregional contexts.

Brazil

PACATUBA

517 hectares

Chile

BREJO GRANDE

250 hectares

QUINQUEN

7000 hectares

Guardians Worldwide has been working for over 10 years in Brazil, with our co-director Tawana Fulkaxo. We support Reserva Indigena Fulkaxo (Pacatuba), an Indigenous protected area, covering 550 hectares of highly endangered Atlantic Rainforest and Brejao dos Negros (Brejo Grande) a Quilombo led mangrove restoration project. We work with two Brazilian legal officers based in Manaus who specialise in Indigenous rights and forest governance: Lucimar Prata and Debora Lacerda.

GWW has been working since 2019 with the Meliñir family, pioneers of Indigenous forest and land conservation in Chile, and guardians of the Chilean Araucaria or pehuen (monkey puzzle). Comunidad Quinquen near Lonquimay o 7,000 hectare Indigenous reserve. Nicolas, GWW founder and director, is Chilean.

Kenya

MAU FOREST

200 hectares

LAKE BOGORIA

100 hectares

GWW has been working since 2020 with land defenders Leonard Mindore and Joseph Towett, leaders of Ogiek land rights movement in Mau Forest,. We have also been working with Josephine Konga, Indigenous women leader of the Endorois community of Lake Bogoria.

PENAMACOR

Nigeria

NNSCI

140,000 hectares

GWW was first registered in Nigeria by our co-founder, the lawyer Kamilu Hassan Hamza. We have been working across various communities and environmental priorities. Currently, we are developing the Northern Nigerian States Carbon Intitiave, a carbon project piloted in partnership with Nasarawa State Governor, encompassing 140,000 hectares of Sub-tropical Forest. GWW Co-director, Kamilu, is Nigerian.

United Kingdom

Portugal

402 hectares

GWW has been working since 2024 in Penamacor, Beira Baixa (Portugal). GWW owns a 2 hectare native semi-deciduous forest, and along with local guardians Fernando Salgueiro and Antonio Cabanas, we have established an alliance of 402 hectares of land for biological regeneration and project development in the Serra Malcata Reserve, one of Portugal's most important biodiversity hotspots.

GUK works from our base at the Tree Rescue Hub in SE London and Old Beards Wood in West Sussex. Our work is focused mainly on outdoor education, community health and wellbeing and restoration of local nature, especially native woodland.