Freyja Foundation

“We intend to use all our resources to protect wild places and combat the climate crisis.”

OUR MISSION

The Freyja Foundation is a private, charitable organization dedicated to supporting scalable, and lasting conservation solutions that protect our planet’s wild places and combat the climate crisis.

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“No one will protect what they don’t care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.”

Sir David Attenborough

We’re taking action on our most pressing environmental issues because we are in climate crisis.

What we do

Freyja develops innovative financing solutions and projects through philanthropy and impact investing that permanently protect and restore threatened and degraded eco-corridors as well as empower local communities.

“When it comes to the extinction and climate crisis, you have two choices:
Do nothing or do something.
Freyja Foundation is how we are doing something.” – Carl

OUR PROJECTS

Freyja’s work integrates protecting existing at-threat carbon sinks, re-establishing biodiversity, collaborating with local communities and utilizing public policy.

Land Conservation

To protect, rewild and provide access to the outdoors, while creating jobs & sequestering carbon

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Ocean Conservation

Integrating ocean conservation principles in school curriculums and providing transformational outdoor educational experiences.

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Impact Investment

Using our values to put our capital to work in private and public global markets.

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Argentina

Patagonia Park

Land Conservation

Argentina

Patagonia Park

U.S.A.

Access Fund

Land Conservation

U.S.A.

Access Fund

Bolivia

Acceso Panam

Land Conservation

Bolivia

Acceso Panam

South Africa

I AM WATER

Ocean Conservation

South Africa

I AM WATER

Chile

Patagonia

Chile

Patagonia

Chile

Cochamo

Chile

Cochamo

Argentina

Ibera

Argentina

Ibera

Land Conservation

Patagonia Park

Argentina

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Land Conservation

Acceso Panam

Bolivia

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Land Conservation

Access Fund

U.S.A.

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Ocean Conservation

I AM WATER

South Africa

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What’s happening

31.08.23 – Cochamó Valley, Conservation

Major Conservation Victory in Chilean Patagonia

After months of negotiations, a major new conservation property has been purchased in southern Chile’s Cochamó Valley—often called “The Yosemite of South America—courtesy of Freyja Foundation, Puelo Patagonia, and La Organización Valle Cochamó.

30.08.23 – Cochamó Valley, PRESS RELEASE

Freyja Foundation wins major conservation victory in Yosemite of South America —Chile’s Cochamó Valley

After months of dialogue and negotiations, Freyja Foundation, an international conservation organization with various easements throughout Patagonia, has purchased 309 hectares of old growth forest in “The Yosemite of South America”, southern Chile’s Cochamó Valley.

22.08.23 – Press

The return of the wild: In search for Puma’s in Argentina’s Patagonia Park

Locals in Argentina’s deep south are switching from ranching to eco-tourism as part of an effort to rewild Patagonia Park, the region’s newest reserve…

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