Local Wisdom. Global Inspiration.

Diana van de Kamp founded WildInvest in 1997. She has always been passionate about saving wildlife and giving back to nature. Her driving conviction is to depart this planet knowing she has done her part to conserve biodiversity and the ecosystems that support all life, great and small. It was this conviction that led her to found WildInvest.

The premise was straightforward: the most important conservation work was being done by remarkable individuals, and almost nobody knew about their work. WildInvest's answer was to seed fund them and tell their stories. The charity built a membership community of donors united by genuine curiosity and care. Each year, conservation leaders working on the ground travelled to London and New York to share their work in person: the Pygmy Hippopotamus of Liberia, the Black-faced Lion Tamarin of Brazil, the Iberian Lynx of Portugal.

Many of the conservationists WildInvest partnered with were early in their careers. Seed funding enabled them to conduct pioneering research and to implement and expand their programmes, and it often opened the door to support from larger organisations. Over fourteen years the charity funded thirteen projects across twelve countries.

In early 2026, Diana relaunched WildInvest with Celeste Allen, a next-generation conservation storyteller who aims to find sustainable communities and bring their practices to an expanded global audience through the power of media documentation. Today WildInvest champions not just species but the communities living alongside them: the land stewards, forest guardians, and farming communities whose practices sustain ecosystems. The belief that founded this charity has never wavered. The stories are just getting a bigger stage.