Environment

The Walton Family Foundation’s environmental giving focuses on achieving lasting conservation in some of the world’s most important ocean and river systems. Desired outcomes are intended to benefit both people and wildlife by aligning economic and conservation interests. Accordingly, we invest in projects that create new economic incentives for sustainability and biodiversity protection, and in projects utilizing other conservation tools where needed.

We divide environmental giving into two initiatives:

• Freshwater Conservation in two of the United States’ primary river systems; and
• Marine Conservation, which supports conservation in some of the world’s most ecologically rich areas, as well as initiatives that create economic incentives for conservation.

Both initiatives pursue conservation in a manner that protects and conserves natural resources while also recognizing the role these waters play in the livelihoods of those who live nearby.

• We invested $71.8 Million in Environment initiatives in 2010.

• A full list of our Environment initiative grantees can be found here: 2010 Walton Family Foundation Environment Initiative Grants

• Meet our Environment team

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