Franklinia Foundation

The Franklinia Foundation (Fondation Franklinia in French) is a private foundation established in 2005 under Swiss law. It provides grants to support nature conservation projects. Its objective is to preserve threatened tree species throughout the world and improve their conservation status. 

The Foundation supports primarily in situ conservation actions of globally threatened tree species, species listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. To ensure that all tree species are assigned a threat category, the foundation also supports the global assessment of all 60’000+ tree species (Global Tree Assessment), an initiative led by BGCI and the Global Tree Specialist Group of the IUCN SSC.

​The foundation is governed by a Board with the support of an Experts Committee who provides technical advice on projects. In 2018, a permanent Secretariat was established in Geneva to implement the foundation’s strategy and manages daily operations.