Working Locally, Shared Globally
QLF has been a pioneer in community-based conservation since its founding nearly 65 years ago.
We work with people across borders, cultures, and generations to empower them with the knowledge and capacity to meet the challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Today QLF works in partnership with a global network of leaders who find innovative solutions to the pressing environmental issues of our time.
More than 5,000 people have participated in QLF programs. Alumni hail from 100 countries in North America; Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; the Middle East, North Africa, the Gulf States; East and Southeast Asia.
QLF supports the next generation of environmental leaders by offering conservation assignments to undergraduate and graduate students and young professionals in the field and offices. We encourage knowledge-sharing to strengthen personal and professional ties between program participants.
QLF is dedicated to biodiversity conservation initiatives and programs in the coastal communities of our home region, the bioregion (Northeastern North America). We have a proud legacy of empowering less visible and under-resourced communities in our home region and the world beyond.
Across the globe, QLF works directly with partner organizations that share our commitment to community-based conservation and larger-scale conservation. Strong partnerships are a QLF hallmark and key to long-term success, particularly when working across geographic and cultural borders.
Stewardship builds on the basic human desire to care for one’s home whether that be an historic site, a waterfall or a watershed. The stewardship approach, with its emphasis on emerging private initiative and public involvement in land-use decisions, has proven to be a highly effective model in the bioregion of Northeastern North America and within global frameworks.
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