ICFC is one of several organizations (that include Conservation International, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Wild Foundation) engaged in a long-term program to strengthen capacity of the Kayapó indigenous people to protect their officially ratified territories which span 110,000 km² of tropical forest in Brazil's southeastern Amazon region.

This project entails crucial steps to protect key habitats for elephants of the Gourma region of Mali and is part of a longer term effort to secure the future of this northern-most elephant population through lasting protection of important dry season and migration habitats.

This program builds on the solid conservation success story of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica, which has included restoration of dry tropical forest in lowland areas and the protection of adjacent areas of rainforest. Our work helps to support local community members as "parataxonomists" (trained as experts in particular fields of taxonomy) and park guards. We also support education of children of local fishing communities in marine biology and marine conservation.

This work effectively promotes the conservation of the endangered Maleo (Megacephalon maleo) and marine turtles that nest in the Tompotika area of Sulawesi, while building a local foundation for conservation in Sulawesi.

This project is aimed at consolidating and strengthening the protection and management of the Abrolhos network of marine protected areas in Brazil, which will serve as a model for improving marine conservation in Brazil.

This project (now completed) consisted of ground work in preparation for a biodiversity reserve network consisting of priority cloud forest sites (Morningside and others) in the highlands of southwestern Sri Lanka. This reserve system is being created to protect threatened species, notably amphibians, lizards and freshwater crabs and to provide other environmental benefits.