Efforts include improving the quality of life of individual animals, recovering rare species, restoring ecosystems, and protecting wilderness areas.

The Walter Conservation approach is to protect and preserve large wild areas, provide wildlife security and management, to collaborate with local residents and host-country governments, and to invest in sustainable enterprises.

[2] White Oak has been successful in breeding, researching, and conserving a wide variety of species.

[3] Almost all of the wild population decreases of the imperiled species conserved at the center can be attributed to habitat loss, farming, and poaching.

[5][6][7] White Oak also contributes to wildlife research and field conservation programs that have aided in the survival of several rare species.