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The Riester Foundation cares about protecting earth’s unique creatures and their environments.

Why? Because as global warming continues to be a threat to many habitats, we feel it’s our duty to stand up for the creatures who don’t have a voice.

Our projects ensure that majestic sea turtles in Central America have a safe place to lay their eggs, that elephants in Kenya aren’t harmed for their ivory and that Yellow-Billed Cuckoos near our headquarters in Arizona have free space to roam.

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Turtles in the sand.

CREMA

Elephants throughout Africa are under threat. Some are poached for their ivory, while others face loss of habitat due to population pressure, conflict, deforestation and drought.

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The Nature Conservancy

The Riester Foundation supports efforts of The Nature Conservancy to protect Arizona’s disappearing riparian areas. For more than 50 years, TNC’s Arizona Program has been working throughout the state for land and water conservation. The Riester Foundation is supporting TNC’s 2030 Goal of protecting and restoring 43 miles of the San Pedro River in Southern […]

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A pack of elephants.

Africa Big Life Foundation

The Riester Foundation is proud to support the Big Life Foundation’s Ranger Program to protect African wildlife. Big Life Foundation’s area of operation covers more than 1.6 million acres across the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem in East Africa. Big Life’s rangers protect and secure wildlife and critical habitat on some of the most important habitat left in […]

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Sierra Club Arizona Water Sentinels – Foundation Project

Arizona Water Sentinels is a program of the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter. The Riester Foundation provides support for this citizen-science program which conducts restoration to improve wildlife habitats on the Rio Salado Habitat Restoration area; a seven-mile stretch of the Salt River in South Phoenix. Coordinating hundreds of volunteers every year to conduct river […]

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Kids working on computers in a lab.

Chocola, Guatemala Computer Lab and Reforestation

Sometimes helping the environment means supporting the whole community, and that’s exactly what the nonprofit Seeds for a Future does. The foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of people in Chocola, Guatemala by creating sustainable economic opportunities.

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A man with a baby elephant.

Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

Elephants throughout Africa are under threat. Some are poached for their ivory, while others face loss of habitat due to population pressure, conflict, deforestation and drought.

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