Profit Funds Conservation. Automatically.
Between 1% and 5% of net programme profit will be transferred to the Mentawai Conservation Foundation every year — not as a discretionary donation, but as a contractual covenant embedded in the programme's founding structure. No board resolution can suspend it. No future ownership change can override it. The obligation is permanent.
Nine Members. Independent Governance.
The MCF will be governed by a nine-member Legacy Trust with independent oversight — designed so that the conservation mission survives every leadership transition and ownership change the programme will experience over 100 years. The Trust operates across four jurisdictions: Singapore for financial management, Indonesia for ground operations, the USA for philanthropy, and Australia for research.
Aspiration Becomes Obligation
Many development programmes make conservation commitments. Most of them are aspirational — subject to board approval, profit levels, and shareholder goodwill. The Mentawai Conservation Covenant is different. It is a founding obligation, not a policy. The programme cannot generate returns without simultaneously funding its conservation mission. That is the design.
"Governance is not compliance. It is the architecture of trust."
The Conservation That Protects the Investment
The covenant is not philanthropy. It is the mechanism that keeps the island worth protecting — and the destination worth visiting.