Conservation Stories Program

The power of stories for Nature

The crucial building block for saving Nature is people’s love, understanding and connection to the natural world. 

People protect what they love. 

The most powerful way to share knowledge and love of Nature with a broader community is through story. Since the dawn of civilisation, humans have always used story to build a shared knowledge, understanding and connection with the world around us. 

Presenting a place or issue well, and telling a powerful story about that place to inspire and mobilise effective efforts for its protection is a central component of every successful initiative to conserve Nature. 

The Kuno Foundation’s role is to provide background support to help people and groups present their place well and to share powerful stories of their work for its protection.

Conservation Stories program 

The critical niche that the Kuno Foundation identified is that across the planet there are many thousands of high energy talented and dedicated people and small to medium groups doing incredible work for Nature. But often these groups are stretched, struggling for resources and particular technical skills that could help amplify their efforts by showcasing their extraordinary work through the power of story. 

The conservation stories program focuses on providing practical support, skills, training and expert help to these local people and groups to present their place or issue and their conservation work well.  

By presenting the stories, ecology and conservation needs of their region well, we can help unlock huge unmet potential for Nature by scaling up the conservation impact of these amazing people and groups. 

Skills and support hub for Nature story-telling

The conservation stories program is supported through access to an amazingly skilled, talented and professional team of environmental story-tellers. We are building a hub of talent and experience that can provide, skills, support, training and expert advice to help people and groups committed to Nature. 

Contributors to Kuno's story-telling work include people such as the talented Brazilian wildlife film and documentary-maker Marcio Conrado, photojournalist Dan Broun, environmental journalist Raz S’alvarita, highly experienced print journalist and producer Peta Carlyon, and writer Helen Cushing. 

The program focus in 2025-26 is to provide expert story-telling support for conservationists and community groups with a particular focus on our pilot regions (including but not limited to Panay Island, Chitral, Bruny Island, Sydney harbour and Tasmania) to powerfully tell the story of the ecology of these places and their conservation needs.

In parallel we are building a hub of easy access online training materials, guidance and tips from experts to create a story-telling toolkit for local groups.