A rapid-response fund to protect the last homes for rare and endangered species

The Quick Response Fund for Nature (QRFN) is a rapid response fund focused on protecting some of the world’s most critical sites for endangered species.

In the financial world, investors respond quickly to promising opportunities that arise one day but may vanish the next. In conservation, opportunities to purchase important lands—and save rare and endangered species—can appear suddenly and require an immediate financial commitment to compete with commercial interests. Too often, the chance to protect a globally important site is lost due to the slow pace of traditional conservation funding.

QRFN provides a solution-oriented approach to saving the world’s most irreplaceable places: we match scientific expertise, funds, and urgent needs with a speed unparalleled in the funding community. Our goal is to ensure that any globally significant land deal—one that safeguards one of the last remaining homes for rare and threatened species—has access to the necessary funds.

By rapidly securing these critical habitats, QRFN directly contributes to the global goal set out under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. Our impact is most powerful where extinction risk is greatest—protecting the last refuges for the world’s rarest species before it’s too late.