Collaborate… Reach Out…
Around our world, there are countless threatened species, conservation issues and critical animal welfare issues that need help. The consequences of these issues can reach out widely.
Integrating the needs of people, animals and our planet for a sustainable future is at the heart of what we do. This recognition of the interconnected well-being of people, animals and ecosystems has never been more important.
Conservation and animal welfare need wider collaboration: Partnership-building and collective action that embrace parties from multiple backgrounds, cultures and sectors. Collaboration that refuses to see any differences – social, cultural, geographic, economic, political, religious, professional or other – as boundaries.
ECP has specialist knowledge to help this happen.
ECP not only offers guidance to leaders, practitioners and parties within existing conservation and animal welfare collaborations and partnerships, but we work tirelessly to link new partners into these collectives – and to build new alliances for species and situations that currently lack collective effort.
This involves harnessing our breadth of knowledge, contacts and experience gained from global working in varied arenas and is enriched by professional conservation and animal welfare partners – those contributing commonly-recognised inputs, and those who have diversified to offer innovative contributions also.
It’s not only those trained in conservation and animal welfare that can help…
One of our strengths is in recognising that to effectively address today’s critical issues, conservation and animal welfare need input from a diverse array of individuals and organisations contributing wide-ranging effort. Time on time, this must include new and innovative contributions from parties not previously-associated with conservation and animal welfare – partners from wide-ranging backgrounds and sectors of society.
We have proven pathways to link parties from all backgrounds and sectors into collective partnership action – widening conservation and animal welfare alliances to yield impactful outcomes and benefits that ripple widely.
We have unique understanding of the human-related mechanisms by which diverse, successful, visionary, transboundary partnerships are established and nurtured and of how to fuel their collaborative action. This knowledge enables us to move partnerships towards a ‘tipping point’, empowering everyone involved and collaborative outcomes – catalysing timely, relevant solutions to holistically achieve mutually-beneficial goals.
Our collaborative cross-sector approach is rooted in a belief in One Health, recognising the well-being of people, animals and ecosystems as interconnected. We believe that respect for animals and nature goes hand in hand with respect for one another – and underpins the intrinsically-linked health and well-being of people, animals and our planet.
Integrating the needs of people, animals and our planet for a sustainable future is at the heart of what we do – and it is more important now than ever before.
Would you like to help?
If you would like to become involved by contributing to a collaboration for conservation or animal welfare, please get in touch…
Whatever your background, whatever you would like to contribute – time, expertise, resources, funds – we will work to match you with a suitable mission that will be deeply grateful for your help.
Are you?..
– A business, company, industry or private sector body – from any arena – wishing to uphold Corporate Social Responsibility by donating funds, other resources or skills?
– An NGO from any arena, whose goals or working areas might overlap with conservation or animal welfare – have you skills or other resources to share?
– A governmental body wishing to fuel the achieving of an environmental or policy goal?
– A community group with skills or other resources to share?
– A charitable foundation wishing to support under-supported animal issues?
– An academic institution or student wanting to give a novel angle to, or link up, your research?
– A school wishing to support a charity?
– A zoo that could help field staff by education or skill-sharing, or widen awareness-raising by hosting corporate events?
– A veterinary practice wishing to offer wider support, including moral or in-kind support?
– An interested individual with valuable skills or experience – in absolutely any field – to offer?
– An interested individual who wants to volunteer – and learn new skills at the same time?
– Someone at school who wants to link up their project?
– A social media whiz, blogger or vlogger who can help raise awareness?
People and organisations in all of the situations above – and many more – make pivotal differences to conservation and animal welfare.
You might wonder whether your contribution will actually be useful – we assure you that it will be!
Indeed, moral support is also very welcome, especially to those working on front-line or remote situations in difficult circumstances.
If you would like to become involved by contributing to a collaboration for conservation or animal welfare, please get in touch…
Anyone can help and all help is welcomed – there is not one skill or contribution that conservation and animal welfare cannot benefit from. If we strive to craft the conservation and animal welfare arenas into rich patchworks of all help that can be sought and willingly given, we have better hope of our endeavours both stopping biodiversity loss and animal distress and generating sustainable, wider benefits for our world.
The remarkable thing about contributing to collaborative efforts, especially any that embody the human-related practices that ECP endorses, is the reciprocity – you find that though you are giving, you are receiving also, often in unexpected ways…
Without a doubt, wide-ranging resources are exchanged to help conservation and animal welfare – however, the key interpersonal resources on which ECP focuses are perhaps the most fundamental of all – they can be an extraordinary fuel to collaboration; a fuel whose costs are far exceeded by the benefits it brings and which in use is not consumed, but replenished exponentially – enabling its impacts to be potentially boundless!
Do you need help for a Conservation or Animal welfare issue?
If you have a conservation or animal welfare issue that needs partnership support, whatever your background, whether you are an individual or organisation, please get in touch.
Whether you are an NGO, governmental organisation, academic body, zoo, animal welfare enterprise or community group, we will endeavour to work with you to help build and strengthen your collaborative network to help you realise your valuable goals.
REACH OUT!
Empowering Collaborative Partnerships 