About Us

How we work

The Altai Project works to achieve our mission through financial support, strategic exchanges of expertise and technology, strengthening protected areas (including sacred sites), and amplifying the voices of frontline partners and experts through storytelling and advocacy.

We support conservation efforts, wildlife research and protection (snow leopards, raptors, Altai argali sheep), protection of sacred lands and traditional and spiritual lifeways, and careful renewable energy infrastructure development.

Throughout our programs, we engage with Indigenous peoples. Not only do we support their efforts to govern their traditional natural territories, we believe that Indigenous peoples hold the key to living in balance with nature—a key that must not be lost. Protection of sacred lands and strengthening traditional knowledge are priorities.

In collaboration with other international nonprofits, we support and participate in activism to prevent or mitigate potentially destructive development that threaten ecosystems, communities, and biological diversity. Our partners are generally people and organizations in the local community, and we strive to maintain long-term relationships.

We are unique

The Altai Project is the only international nonprofit interconnecting nature conservation with sustainable development, Indigenous communities, and cultural heritage and facilitating these ap­proaches in Eurasia Because we are small and dynamic, we can be flexible to constantly changing conditions and opportunities in the larger region.

Thanks to our personal connections in the region and decades building expertise, we can leverage our funding by supporting effective nonprofits and frontline defenders whom we know are trustworthy and effective.