The best conservation science is built on local knowledge.
We bring the science, the capital, and the institutional support. Communities bring everything else.
Across East Africa, Archipelagus works with communities, government and partners to conserve some of the world's most biodiverse landscapes while strengthening the livelihoods that depend on them. We embed rigorous science and evidence collection into everything we do — not as a reporting obligation, but as a practical tool that informs and amplifies local decision-making. We build approaches that take root, replicate, and endure.
Our mission is to support the communities and institutions leading conservation in East Africa's most biodiverse landscapes — pairing their local knowledge with rigorous science, patient capital, and the institutional foundations to make conservation and livelihoods reinforce one another for the long term.
