De Ravel Group, along with all its subsidiaries and partners, has decided to end its donations to WWF France. This decision follows behaviour that we consider incompatible with the values that guide our sponsorship policy: integrity, neutrality and respect for individual freedom.
For several years now, our ecosystem has been supporting associations working for causes that are close to our hearts: environmental protection, education and, more generally, the common good. This support is based on a simple conviction: a responsible company is built not just on economic performance, but also on the commitment it chooses to make beyond its own activities.
It is precisely because this commitment is serious that we cannot maintain it indiscriminately.
Why WWF France is losing our financial support
At the end of April 2026, a news item caught our attention: WWF France asked Maria Chiara de Bourbon des Deux-Siciles to stop presenting herself as an ambassador for the organisation. Not because of anything she has done, said or done, or because of any breach of her environmental commitments. But simply because her elder sister, Maria Carolina, was photographed in the company of Jordan Bardella. You can read all about it here on the WWF France website.
To be perfectly clear: a woman was removed from a voluntary role she had held for years, in the service of an environmental cause, because of the romantic choices of a member of her family. She asked nothing, said nothing, did nothing.
Our position on donations to associations
At de Ravel Group, we respect the freedom of each individual to make their own commitments, opinions and personal choices. We do not take partisan positions, nor do we intend to do so.
But there are some principles that are non-negotiable.
Sanctioning someone for the actions of someone close to them is a form of collective responsibility that has no place in an organisation that claims to be progressive and humanist. To use a cause as universal as environmental protection as a vehicle for political exclusion is, in our view, a betrayal of the very mission this cause is supposed to serve.
Protecting the planet has no political colour. It belongs to everyone. As soon as an association seizes on it to turn it into an instrument of ideological exclusion, it loses its legitimacy to represent this cause - and, in our eyes, to benefit from our donations.
Our decision regarding donations to WWF France
De Ravel Group, all its subsidiaries and its partners are withdrawing WWF France from the list of associations to which they distribute donations.
This decision is not irreversible in principle. It will remain so until the organisation has demonstrated, through concrete actions, that it is capable of separating its environmental commitment from its political orientations, and that it respects the individual independently of his or her entourage.
We will continue to support environmental causes through other partners, whose actions remain focused on their primary mission.
De Ravel Group is an independent holding company operating in the finance, education, technology and property sectors, through an ecosystem of subsidiaries and partners sharing the same values. Our collective commitment to society is guided by the principles of integrity, independence and respect for individual freedom.
