Values and Guiding Principles

At the heart of everything we do are the values and guiding principles that shape our approach. We are committed to prioritizing safety, fostering innovation, acting with integrity, transparency, and respect, and making a positive impact on the communities we work side-by-side with. Our values guide every decision and action we take, ensuring we stay true to our mission while authentically engaging with communities and building lasting organizational health.

Integrity, Science, and Transparency

We are committed to the highest ethical, professional, and scientific standards in all our endeavors. To achieve this, we:

• Use the best available science, risk analysis, and management practices to develop and implement all decisions.
• Transparently acknowledge and adapt to the known limitations of science and best management practices.
• Share knowledge and information by publishing or promoting new science and evidence-based findings.

Partnerships, Respect, and Safety

We work collaboratively to align and integrate partner values and needs into partnerships that share responsibilities for conservation actions, outcomes, benefits, and risks. Together, we:

• Identify solutions with communities and support their leading or participating conservation actions.
• Value, respect, and protect the rights, and wellbeing of local communities, partners, staff, and volunteers.
• Prioritize and sustain peoples’ and species’ rights to live free from damaging invasive species while treating all animals (native and invasive) with respect and compassion and minimize suffering whenever possible.
• Identify, avoid, minimize, or mitigate all potential risks and adaptively manage unanticipated impacts.
• Prevent new island invasive species through appropriate and strategic biosecurity management practices.

Lasting Results and Innovation

We focus our work on high-returns for conservation investments and continually innovate to increase efficacy and island restoration gains. Specifically, we:

• Pursue actions most likely to help prevent extinctions or contribute to island restorations.
• Pursue actions where anticipated long-term ecological gains ecxeed potential short-term risks
• Monitor and report ecosystem response to meaure success and ensure species are being protected
• Assess, support, and invest in innovative new tools and methods that increas efficacy and reduce risk
• Are committed to sustaining a highly effective organization, a diverse and expert staff, innovative thinking, and a great place to work.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We envision and strive to contribute to a world that is inclusive, interconnected, just, and sustainable. A commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and authentic community engagement is fundamental to all we do.

• Partner with a broad range of people and listen to and learn from many perspectives and practices, including diverse ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world.
• Commit to a continuous diversity, equity, and inclusion learning journey that includes engagement, collective work, partnership, and acting with humility.
• Acknowledge and learn about oppressive roots within conservation’s history and their current manifestations, and foster justice in our work.
• Reflect, act, and remove barriers to foster inclusion and equity at the interpersonal, team, and organizational levels.
• Believe that DEI is the right thing to do and is everyone’s responsibility.