The Population-Health-Environment (PHE) Alliance Project, implemented by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from 2008 to 2011, with support from the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health and Johnson & Johnson, aimed to change that practice, and by doing so, deepen the sector’s understanding of the value of the PHE approach for conservation,and how the sector could better measure that value.

  WWF’s Population, Health and Environment (PHE) program in the Terai Arc Landscape (TAL) dates from 2003, with funding from various sources: USAID, Johnson & Johnson, and most recently, from private sources in Finland. In all phases of this program, youth have played an important role. This one page brief describes WWF's efforts to engage youth in PHE activities in order to improve human well-being and conservation outcomes in the long-term in Nepal.  

Since 2008, WWF has joined with USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health and Johnson & Johnson to implement the Population, Health and Environment (PHE) Alliance in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Nepal. This PHE partnership measured the project’s endline survey taken in 2011 against the baseline survey taken in 2008, and is delivering the results of the PHE Global Development Alliance (GDA) project.

Since the beginning of 2011, Pathfinder International has been working together with The Nature Conservancy and the Frankfurt Zoological Society to design a project that reduces pressures on the diverse and fragile Greater Mahale Ecosystem in western Tanzania by Lake Tanganyika.  As a health partner invited in

This report summarizes a study of 31 health and conservation projects, documenting examples in which community-based health has been used as motivation to conserve biodiversity.