The Wildlife Conservation Film Festival was founded in 2010 by Christopher J. Gervais, FRGS at first as a 2 day event and has now grown to a 10 day festival. It is a juried event with attendees and participants that include international wildlife conservationists, filmmakers, photographers, scientists and people across the globe that work toward the preservation of global biodiversity. WCFF has a global educational outreach program with scondary and post secondary institutions in North and South America, Asia, Africa and Europe as of 2019.
