We work at the crossroads of conservation and culture and help indigenous communities to protect their culture, language and land.
Each of our projects is different as it is designed by and for the local community and its needs but each includes some or all of the following elements:
- building a cultural community centre to act as a focal point for cultural revitalisation and celebration
- recording and protecting endangered languages
- promoting local storytelling, photography and film-making, and
- fostering economic opportunities for communities to stay with and look after their land.
See Projects for further details of some of our current and pipeline projects.
We must protect the protectors.
“Indigenous cultures are often the best guardians of the land and sea: we must help them to protect their cultures and traditional knowledge and we must dramatically scale our efforts to do this…I believe very much in the work that The Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation is doing to make this a reality.” Russell A. Mittermeier, Chief Conservation Officer, Global Wildlife Conservation and former President of Conservation International