Federation of Wildlife conservation has been developing relationship with Sri Lanka business and business institution over the past few years. An important catalyst to the Process was FWC and WTO Conservation Forum held in December 2007 where active participation of the private sector provided a constructive platform for dialogue and establishment of more substantive collaboration. FWC is also a member of the environmental committee of the Sri Lanka Chamber of Commerce enabling it to influence the policies of corporate and increasing their participation in conservation in issues.

FWC is in the process of strategizing the development of a Business and Environment Programme that will adopt an ecosystems and livelihood approach that simultaneously address both the socio-economic and environmental issues. The long – term objective of the FWC strategy is to ensure that Sri Lanka’s policy – makers in business and government to mainstream biodiversity practices into daily operations; establishing long-term partnership with business community; and documents current corporate environmental responsibility of business community and facilities best practices within Sri Lanka’s business sector.

The FWC Environmental Economics and Policy work is based on the vision of more efficient, equitable and sustainable management of biodiversity and natural resources in Sri Lanka resulting from the integration of economic concerns and measures into conservation & development policy, planning and practice. Working towards this vision, the environmental economics and policy work has the following objectives; an effective FWC country programme while supporting the other thematic programmes addressing economic based conservation concerns and questions; economic techniques for biodiversity are accepted, understood and applied by FWC programmes and projects; knowledge on economic aspects of biodiversity and ecosystems within the country is enhanced through the generation, sharing and disseminations of practical and policy relevant methodologies, case studies and lessons learned between different countries, agencies and sectors; capacity, awareness and understanding of the use of economics tools for biodiversity conservation is strengthened among different sectors, agencies and decision making levels; concrete and appropriate economic measures for biodiversity are identified, tested and applied to a diverse range of natural resources, ecosystems and conservation management issues.