Vision & Mission.
We envision a global community where people can share knowledge, learn from one another and work together to protect nature, regardless of geography, recognition or access to resources.
Discover. Learn. Connect. Protect.
We uncover overlooked stories and knowledge, support people to share their own perspectives, and connect people, skills and opportunities to contribute to protecting nature, wildlife and biodiversity. These four pillars work together across everything we do.
Discover
We bring overlooked people, stories, species and conservation efforts into view, from a nearby park to places far beyond our own.
Explore stories
Learn
We share experiences, local knowledge and reliable research to help people understand nature and learn from one another.
Continue learning
Connect
We bring people, skills, organisations and opportunities together, creating space to learn from one another and collaborate.
Meet the contributors
Protect
We help knowledge and connections contribute to responsible action for nature, wildlife and biodiversity.
Take action
What guides us
Equality, Authenticity and Collaboration are our core values. They guide our stories, partnerships and the opportunities we build together.
- Equality
- We welcome people across backgrounds, cultures and levels of recognition. Geography and access to resources should not determine whose knowledge is heard.
- Authenticity
- We respect contributors’ own voices, check factual claims and represent experiences honestly. Editing and accessibility tools should preserve authorship and accuracy.
- Collaboration
- We bring people, skills and organisations together to share knowledge, create opportunities and work towards responsible outcomes for nature.
Our values in practice
- Respect and reciprocity
- We seek appropriate consent, give credit and work with communities in ways that offer value beyond collecting stories or images.
- Wildlife welfare
- The wellbeing of wildlife comes before a story or a photograph. Artificial wildlife imagery must not be presented as genuine field documentation.
- Open knowledge
- We value curiosity and reliable knowledge. We aim to keep our core published stories and learning resources freely accessible.
Our community so far
Untold Wildlife is a global, volunteer-driven community of local knowledge holders, storytellers, scientists, creatives and people who want to help. Honest storytelling can build understanding and connections that contribute to protecting nature.
- 4K+
- Online supporters
- 32
- Untold stories
- 31
- Authors
- 21
- Countries represented in our stories
Building our next chapter
We are establishing Untold Wildlife as a nonprofit foundation in the Netherlands to support lasting partnerships and, as funding and capacity grow, offer practical and financial support to people and projects.
Our long-term ambition is a freely accessible collection of knowledge and experience about nature, shaped by people sharing their own voices, languages and creative forms. We want those connections to grow into educational, creative and conservation projects.
We do not currently accept donations. We will publish our registration details once establishment is complete and begin accepting donations only when the necessary arrangements are in place.
Where the mission lives
Follow a story, open the map, or find an organization to support. The work continues across Untold Wildlife.
Through My Lens: Reclaiming the Wild Stories of My Homeland
Nairobi, KenyaRead the story
