LEAD Conservation
Your people.
Your training.
We work with protected areas to develop their rangers, instructors, leaders and analysts. We come to you, we stay for as long as it takes, and in the end the training is yours.
TWO WAYS IN
Where would you like to start?
working beside partners since
partners supported
countries
rangers trained by partners’ own instructors
what we deliver
Two programmes, one standard.
RangerPro
A career from field ranger to operations leader, taught and certified be instructors inside your own organisation
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Insight
Analysts who understand a problem before the response, so patrols go where the evidence points.
Explore InsightHow it works
We come, we stay, we leave it with you.
We partner deliberately — a few organisations at a time, chosen for fit, not scale.
We come to you
Your landscape, your team, your language. We start by listening, and we respect the experience your people already carry.
We stay for years
Real change is slow. We keep coming back, coaching and mentoring, while your own instructors and leaders grow into the work.
It is yours
Your instructors run your training. We stay close by, answering when you call.
The government rangers who used to train us now come to us for training.
less snaring across 1,300 km²
In Way Kambas National Park, Indonesia, LEAD-mentored teams applied the Integrated Threat Reduction framework at the preventive tier. Within one year, snaring incidents fell by 85%.
Read the case study
WHO WE ARE
Fifteen people. Thirty-four countries.
We are a small Dutch foundation, started in 2018. We stay small on purpose — it keeps the work personal and flexible.
We train instructors, leaders and analysts. Their instructors run the courses, their leaders run the teams, their analysts steer the operations — with or without us in the room.
Or just say hello.
Tell us about your landscape and your team, and we will tell you honestly whether we can help. A person answers, usually Dominique.