From the jaguar corridors of the Gran Chaco to the flooded savannas of the Pantanal, NATIVA partners with indigenous communities to defend 12 million hectares of the continent's most threatened landscapes.
NATIVA USA is the U.S. sister organization of NATIVA Bolivia — a conservation movement that has, for over two decades, stood at the intersection of ecology, indigenous sovereignty, and climate action in the South American interior.
We exist for one reason: to connect American donors and institutions with one of the most effective, community-rooted conservation forces in Latin America. Every dollar raised here fuels real work on the ground — protected forests, restored landscapes, trained rangers, and indigenous territories legally secured.
Spanning five ecoregions and two of the planet's most vital watersheds, NATIVA's area of work is one of South America's last great wilderness mosaics — and one of its fastest-disappearing.
Bolivia sits at the heart of a silent continental emergency. Forest loss is accelerating, fires now rage for months, and some of the planet's rarest ecosystems are being cleared at industrial scale — often for commodities consumed thousands of miles away.
Sources: Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).
NATIVA works at the scale of entire ecosystems — never piecemeal. Conservation, community livelihoods, and climate governance advance together, because in the Gran Chaco, they cannot be separated.
We protect the ecosystems that sustain all life.
We co-manage protected areas, restore degraded forests, and strengthen indigenous and community-led governance across Bolivia's Chaco, Chiquitanía and Pantanal.
Climate action begins with local government.
We equip local and indigenous governments with the plans, tools and technical capacity to anticipate climate shocks and build genuinely resilient communities.
Conservation must pay those who protect.
We build economies rooted in the forest itself — honey, sustainable cattle, artisanal crafts — that reward stewardship and center indigenous women, youth, and rural families.
In Bolivia, NATIVA works across five interconnected ecoregions that together form part of the largest dry forest system in the Americas. We don't choose between ecosystems — we connect them.
NATIVA does not speak for indigenous peoples — we work alongside them. Every conservation plan, every protected area, every climate tool is built through free, prior and informed consent, and rooted in ancestral knowledge that long predates our organization.
In partnership with the Guaraní Autonomy of Charagua Iyambae, NATIVA helped legally protect Ñembi Guasu — 1.2 million hectares of ancestral forest, the beating heart of a 6-million-hectare biological corridor.
"From the Yungas and the Chaco to the Chiquitanía and the Pantanal, we help conserve ecosystems, strengthen indigenous governance, and build livelihoods that endure. Our impact is measured in resilient communities and territories that remain wild."
In the dry forests of the Gran Chaco, a single jaguar requires hundreds of square kilometers of unbroken habitat. Where jaguars return, it is because prey has returned. Where prey returns, it is because forest has been restored. And where forest is restored, it is because people — indigenous, local, and institutional — have chosen to stand for it.
This is the theory of change behind everything NATIVA does. We don't protect species in isolation. We protect the conditions that allow entire ecosystems — and the communities who have always lived within them — to thrive together.
"Our approach is simple, and it is hard: connect landscapes, and you transform realities."
Since 2003, this philosophy has delivered some of the most significant conservation outcomes in South America — from co-founding REDES CHACO, the trinational alliance for the Chaco region, to pioneering the SICCLIMA climate planning methodology now used across Bolivia.
The people who fund conservation deserve to see exactly how their gift works. Here is how every dollar to NATIVA USA is put to work.
100% of donations to NATIVA USA directly fund field work on the ground in Bolivia — ranger patrols, reforestation, indigenous territorial defense, and climate resilience for the communities who protect this continent for all of us.
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Equips one indigenous ranger with monitoring gear for a month of patrol across the Chaco.
Give $50Funds the reforestation of one hectare of burned dry forest, including native seedlings and community follow-up care.
Give $250Supports an entire municipal climate action plan — the foundation for long-term, government-anchored resilience.
Give $1,000NATIVA USA Corp is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 61-2248515), tax-exempt since December 2, 2024. All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by U.S. law. Verify our status with the IRS.