The Wilderness Society

Mission: Uniting people to protect America's wild places.

Purpose: The Wilderness Society protects wilderness and works to guide energy development to appropriate locations while ensuring that public lands contribute to climate solutions. The organization is committed to ensuring that all people can access and share the benefits of the outdoors, from urban to wild settings.

Primary Focus Areas:

• 30 x 30 Initiative: Addressing the devastating loss of nature globally. The organization works toward protecting 30 percent of America's lands and waters by 2030. Over the last 20 years, approximately 1.2 million square miles of wild land have been lost worldwide—an area equivalent to India's total land mass.

• Net Zero Emissions: Striving to make public lands and waters entirely pollution-free, with a goal of making public lands a net-zero source of emissions by 2030 while supporting a just transition for fossil-fuel-dependent communities.

• Fossil Fuel Transition: Transitioning off fossil fuel development on public lands to well-sited renewable energy.

• Equitable Access: Securing equitable access to public lands and their benefits.

• Climate Solutions & Biodiversity: Scaling up work to address climate change, loss of biodiversity, and deep inequities in access to nature's benefits.

• Indigenous Partnership: Working directly with Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities to support conservation outcomes that respect tribal priorities and concerns, recognizing historic and ongoing injustices perpetrated against Indigenous peoples.