Nature.org Nominated for Best Non-Profit Charitable Site in the 13th Annual Webby Awards

Fans Can Vote Online to Help The Nature Conservancy Win the Internet's Top Honor Internet's highest honor Nominees like The Nature Conservancy are setting the standard for addition and adroitness on the Internet It is an absurd accomplishment to be called a allotment of the best from the about 10,000 entries we accustomed this year. Our focus is to make nature.org agreeable and inspirational--to use the actual ability of the Web to appoint added and more individuals in the ecology movement This choice is an honor and a validation that the Conservancy's plan is alarming individuals around the apple to act. Please don't blab this  vote. Can anyone fix my computer? Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Internet's  highest honor

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 16, 2009 -- The Nature Conservancy appear today that its website--www.nature.org--is a finalist for Best Charitable Non-Profit Organization website in the 13th Annual Webby Awards.

Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by the New York Times, the Webby Awards is the arch all-embracing accolade anniversary arete on the Internet.

The Nature Conservancy's website has continued been at the acid bend of presenting immersive features and assurance opportunities for those absorbed in protecting nature.

"Nominees like The Nature Conservancy are setting the standard for addition and adroitness on the Internet," said David-Michel Davies, controlling administrator of the Webby Awards. "It is an absurd accomplishment to be called a allotment of the best from the about 10,000 entries we accustomed this year."

"Our focus is to make nature.org agreeable and inspirational--to use the actual ability of the Web to appoint added and more individuals in the ecology movement," said Elizabeth Ward, the Conservancy's administrator of business communications. "This choice is an honor and a validation that the Conservancy's plan is alarming individuals around the apple to act."

As a nominee, The Nature Conservancy is also eligible to win a Webby People's Voice Award, which is voted for online by the global Web community. From now until April 30, Conservancy admirers can casting their votes in The Webby People's Voice Awards at http://pv.webbyawards.com.

Winners will be appear on May 5, 2009 and accustomed at a star-studded ceremony in New York City on June 8 hosted by Seth Meyers. Winners will be able to allotment one of the Webby's acclaimed five-word speeches with the world. Past Webby Award winners-- and their speeches-- cover Al Gore ("Please don't blab this  vote."), Beastie Boys  ("Can anyone fix my computer?"), and Stephen Colbert  ("Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.").

The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 650-person anticipation academy whose associates cover Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, R/GA's Chief Bob Greenberg, "The Simpsons" architect Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington and Harvey Weinstein.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people.  To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at http://www.nature.org.

Hailed as the "Internet's  highest honor" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international accolade anniversary arete on the Internet, including Websites,  interactive advertising, online blur and video, and adaptable web sites.  Established in 1996, the 13th Annual Webby Awards accustomed over 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. The Webby Awards is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: Microsoft Silverlight; The Creative Group; .ORG; Getty Images; The Barbarian Group; Digital Kitchen; Wired; IDG; PricewaterhouseCoopers; 2advanced.Net; KobeMail and Museum of the Moving Image.

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