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OUR HISTORY

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1997

JUNE 4

Wildlife Works Inc. established.  Rukinga is selected as the first project site.

SEPTEMBER 16

Wildlife Works EPZ is incorporated in   preparation of the fair trade factory in Kenya.

1998

JUNE 14

First rangers are hired. No gun policy is established. 800 snares removed per day.

2000

DECEMBER

Fair trade factory completed using rammed earth construction technique.

JANUARY

First elephants return to Rukinga.

2001

JANUARY

First school is built. 

AUGUST

First finished t-shirt comes off the production line.

AUGUST

Four out of the "big five" return to Rukinga.

2002 TO 2003

New logo and launch of our    direct-to-consumer website.

A few PR highlights

2005    TO 2008

Wildlife Works takes financial responsibility for protecting Rukinga Sanctuary.

2007

Pilot pop-up store opens in San Francisco.

JUNE 2005

Produced fashion show for U.N. World Environment Day in SF.

2008

Debut at London Fashion Week.

2009

JANUARY

Wildlife Works Carbon LLC founded.

DECEMBER

Received first CCB Gold Validation for biodiversity and community excellence for Kasigau.

FEBRUARY

Started work on certifying the first REDD+ pilot project with  Kasigau, Kenya.

2010

SEPTEMBER

Launched VCS REDD+ Methodology Development Program.

JANUARY

Launched community phase of REDD+ project in Kasigau to expand protection area to 500,000 acres (from original 80,000) which provides carbon credit income to 5,000 local land owners and cobenefits to 100,000 people in the surrounding area.

Wildlife Works Rebrand

FEBRUARY

Kasigau Corridor REDD+ project delivered the world's first REDD+ VCS Carbon Credits.

JANUARY

Received  double approval of VCS methodology.

MARCH

Started work on Mai Ndombe REDD+ Project.

2011

APRIL

Relaunched  Wildlife Works Retail.

2012

JANUARY

Founded  Code REDD, a nonprofit to grow the market and cross industry support for REDD credits.

JUNE

Global launch of Code REDD at the  20th Anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. 

DECEMBER

Validation  and 1st Verification of  Mai Ndombe REDD+ Project.

2015

FEBRUARY

Launched Stand for Trees, a direct to consumer platform to sell REDD+ credits and grow awareness for protecting forests to fight climate change.

APRIL

We partnered with Prince EA to produce "Dear Future Generations: Sorry" that received over one hundred million views and brought $500k in consumer offsets purchases to Stand for Trees.

2016 TO 2017

JANUARY

Started providing consulting services for other REDD+ projects.

NOVEMBER 2016

IFC lists world's first Forest Bond that pays  Wildlife Works credits as dividends on London Stock Exchange. 

MARCH 2017

Rob Dodson, Head of African Operations, tragically passed away.

His spirit lives on in our hearts. 

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2018

OCTOBER

Mai Ndombe REDD+ Project nested under jurisdictional program, making it the first program in the world to make it through the World Bank pipeline to nest a project within a jurisdictional program. 

MAY

Started work in Colombia: USAID awarded us management of 8 REDD+ projects in Colombia under Program Paramos y Bosques.

DECEMBER

Issued first REDD+ credits for the Southern  Cardamom REDD+ Project in Cambodia in partnership with Wildlife Alliance after successful validation and verification in August. 

2019

2021

NOVEMBER

The Peoples Forests Partnership is launched at COP26.

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2023

JUNE

Opened first Wildlife Works retail store in Nairobi.

SEPTEMBER

Launch of Equitable Earth

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2024

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