Grizzly 399 Project
The “Friends of 399” have raised over half a million dollars in a campaign begun in 2022 and managed by the Deidre Bainbridge Wildlife Fund, a 501(c)(3) Wyoming not-for-profit organization. They have been making, and will continue to make, substantial grants to numerous wildlife-supportive organizations that can create, implement, and communicate innovative wildlife education, safety, and art programs.
Mountain Lion Foundation
The Mountain Lion Foundation envisions a world where lions and people coexist, where sustainability includes the persistence of the human ecosystem in harmony with viable wildlife communities, and where wildlands are nurtured and not subdued.
America’s lion is a marvel of adaptation, descending from Asian felids of 11 million years ago. For millennia, Puma concolor inhabited forests, deserts, mountains, islands and bottomlands of the New World’s two massive continents. Our vision is that the ecological miscues of the Anthropocene Age abate, allowing restoration of lions throughout these diverse habitats.
Our vision requires humans to respect and trust, not fear, lions in proximity.
We live in a time of climate stress, a fearsome pace of extinctions and a planetary crisis. If humankind can reverse the lion’s decline, there is hope.
Project Coyote
MISSION: To protect North America’s wild carnivores and promote compassionate coexistence through education, science, advocacy, and coalition building.
VISION: A North America where humans and wild carnivores coexist and ecosystems thrive.