The Center for Rescue of Endangered Marine Animals (CREMA) is a conservation and research organization dedicated to protecting ocean resources in Central America. The Riester Foundation has partnered with this pioneering group to protect the nesting grounds of the Olive Ridley Turtle on Playa Corozalito in northwest Costa Rica.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.