Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund

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Come into right relationship.

Together we can ensure a future where Indigenous Peoples, their medicines and knowledges thrive for generations to come.

The Threat

Will the psychedelic movement heal or harm?

Extractive industries threaten Indigenous keystones medicines with extinction.

Will psychedelics become another? Or become a force for good?

Extractive industries threaten Indigenous keystones medicines with extinction.

Will psychedelics become another extractive industry? Or leave a legacy of collective healing?

The Fund supports the psychedelic space to become allies in strengthening traditional communities in their fight against extractive industries, instead of becoming one itself.

As the world embraces their importance for mental, physical and spiritual healing, it is critical that the original holders of these medicines are uplifted and supported to direct biocultural conservation and maintain access to their medicines.

These medicines are vital for the health and protection of these territories, which are among the most biodiverse in the world.

Read our Declaration to Partners to the Psychedelic Field

The Opportunity

Protect the cultures, medicines and ecosystems vital
for all of life.

Protect the cultures, medicines and ecosystems vital for all of life.

We can deeply support Indigenous communities with everything needed to protect, maintain and strengthen their traditional knowledge.

Their knowledge is vital to all humanity: how to work with medicine, how to protect vital biodiversity and ecologies.

Protecting this knowledge will:

  • Improve mental health in disadvantaged communities,

  • Protect sophisticated knowledge in using plant medicines for individual and collective healing.

  • Put the communities with deep knowledge of place in direct leadership of conservation efforts in the places at greatest risk, and of greatest importance on Earth.

Our Mission

Ensuring a future where Indigenous Peoples, their medicines and knowledges thrive for generations to come.

Our Work

We're working to protect five keystone biocultures.

Our partners address the urgent threats these biocultures face, and ensure their thriving futures.

Our partners address the urgent threats these biocultures face, and ensure their thriving futures.

Partner organizations lead ecological, economic, cultural and spiritual processes and structures in place to navigate the pressures of the newly-commercializing psychedelic field, existing extractive industries and political / economic imbalances, all while building community and cultural health and strength.

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Stay in good relations.

Subscribe to receive occasional observations, knowledge and insights from our work protecting indigenous medicine.

Protect the knowledge.

Donate to help protect these precious peoples, plants and places.

Connect with us.

Curious about working together? Have a question? Interested in making a large donation? We're here to connect.