Restoring the Meaning of Conservation
At Shepherds of Wildlife Society, we are a cinematic, media-driven cultural strategy organization working to restore public understanding of modern conservation. We are not a lobbying group or a membership-based advocacy organization. We operate at the level of culture, using film and strategic storytelling to shape how conservation is understood by mainstream audiences, institutions and decision-makers.
In a world of more than 8 billion people, most now disconnected from nature, the future of wildlife is increasingly uncertain. As human expansion continues and traditional ways of life disappear, wildlife is pushed to the margins, confined to parks or lost entirely. At the same time, the meaning of conservation has become distorted, moving away from its foundation in the wise use of natural resources and often excluding the people who live closest to the land.
Our Mission
Storytellers
Our work is built on storytelling. Through films such as Killing the Shepherd, The Last Keeper and The Real Yellowstone, we explore the relationship between wildlife and the people who live with it. We focus on communities, policy impacts and the balance between preservation and survival, grounded in a simple truth: wildlife cannot survive unless the people who live with it can thrive.
We are shepherds
Shepherds of Wildlife advances a model of conservation based on science-driven management, sustainable use of renewable resources and local stewardship. Hunting is one tool within that system, but not the mission. Our focus is broader: restoring the definition, understanding and public legitimacy of conservation itself.
Modern society has become disconnected from the natural world, and that disconnect is one of the greatest threats to wildlife today. Through film, media and education, we work to make conservation tangible again by reconnecting people to the land, to wildlife and to the responsibility of stewardship.
