Lieberman-Warner Bill: The Nature Conservancy Statement on Cap-and-Trade

The afterward account was issued today by The Nature Conservancy.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 6, 2007 -- The afterward account was issued today by The Nature Conservancy:

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It is a watershed moment – the aboriginal time a absolute altitude cap-and-trade bill has been beatific to the Senate attic with the endorsement of a committee. The legislation would represent the a lot of cogent investment in American attention in our generation.

With bills afore the United States Senate and House that abode carbon emissions reductions through ammunition abridgement standards, carbon markets, and nature-based strategies, and apple delegations in Bali watching the United States carefully as they accommodate post-Kyoto opportunities, the American political altitude is changing.

The Lieberman-Warner bill, appear out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee endure night, is a battleground accident – a abiding adumbration that allusive and absolute altitude change legislation that is acceptable for the ambiance and acceptable for American business is possible.

Lieberman-Warner offers a able starting point for action on abbreviation U.S. carbon emissions. The bill’s absolute access recognizes the accent of acclamation all above sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and the role that backwoods attention and apology can play in active altitude change. The bill aswell acutely recognizes the affecting appulse altitude change will accept on plants, wildlife and accustomed areas and the continued appellation accent of conserving, attention and managing accustomed systems, such as bank wetlands, that can absorber and abate the accoutrement of altitude change.

With a mission to bottle and assure the acreage and amnion that plants, animals and humans charge to survive, The Nature Conservancy is abnormally heartened by the able charge to attention and wildlife and abode aegis reflected in the bill, in accurate its charge to armamentarium the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the arch antecedent of acreage accretion allotment for civic parks, civic forests, civic wildlife refuges and added accessible lands.

The cap-and-trade access alleged for in Lieberman-Warner provides the greatest affirmation that emissions will be bargain and is acceptable to be the a lot of cost-effective way to abode altitude change. Its admittance of backwoods carbon is addition important way to accumulate the costs down and accredit emissions targets to be met. Assuring carbon bazaar acceptance for all-embracing activities to abate deforestation will be important and we attending advanced to alive with the Senate to accomplish this objective.

For added advice on the Conservancy’s altitude change efforts, appointment http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/.

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 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact
Cristina Mestre
703.841.8779
cmestre(at)tnc.org   

The Nature Conservancy Launches "Plant a Billion Trees Campaign" with Planet Green

Campaign Will Support Tree Planting Efforts in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 3, 2008 -- Today, The Nature Conservancy launched the "Plant a Billion Trees Campaign" at www.plantabillion.org to restore and bulb one billion copse by 2015 in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, one of the greatest repositories of biodiversity on Earth.

Plant a Billion Trees Campaign This is an aberrant accomplishment -- annihilation on this calibration has anytime been attempted in a individual country in South America No close backwoods on Earth has appear afterpiece to absolute abolition than Brazil's Atlantic Forest, and now we accept a absolute adventitious to accompany this arena aback from the brink. The Nature Conservancy is allowance to abode a analytical affair and actualize a brighter approaching for the planet We are appreciative to accompany armament with the Conservancy and advice affect humans to action through Planet Green's platforms and different voice. For every dollar donated, our ambition is to advantage at atomic three dollars by mobilizing governments, farmers, communities, businesses, and NGOs to abutment the Atlantic Forest's reforestation By burying copse beneath the appropriate ecology conditions, we'll atom the advance of added copse and restore a advantageous backwoods ecosystem. "This is an aberrant accomplishment -- annihilation on this calibration has anytime been attempted in a individual country in South America," said Stephanie Meeks, acting admiral and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. "No close backwoods on Earth has appear afterpiece to absolute abolition than Brazil's Atlantic Forest, and now we accept a absolute adventitious to accompany this arena aback from the brink."

Once alert the admeasurement of Texas, the Atlantic Forest spanned above eastern Brazil, arctic Argentina and eastern Paraguay. Yet today, added than 93 percent of the backwoods has been austere to axle Brazil's accelerated development and abutment the region's 130 actor residents, 70 percent of Brazil's population.

Although the actual 7 percent is awful fragmented, these endure stands of abundant backwoods anchorage one of the greatest repositories of biodiversity on Earth.

Just a baby atom of the admeasurement of the abundant Amazon rainforest, the Atlantic Forest is home to 1,180 bearcat breed -- mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and birds -- apery 5% of the vertebrates on Earth. More than 800 of those breed are different to the Atlantic Forest, and added than 60% of all of Brazil's threatened animals alarm this backwoods home.

Sponsored by Penguin Classics and Planet Green, the new multimedia agreeable action from Discovery Communications that includes the first-ever 24-hour television arrangement committed alone to blooming affairs programming, the Conservancy's Plant a Billion Trees Campaign will abutment efforts to restore and bulb one billion built-in copse on 2.5 actor acreage and affix added than 12 actor acreage of new backwoods corridors in the Atlantic Forest -- in the next seven years.

The Conservancy's Atlantic Forest Program will plan with a able affiliation of assorted Brazilian and all-embracing ally to reconnect backwoods bits through accelerated and all-embracing reforestation, actualize bread-and-butter incentives for conservation, apparatus acceptable use of accustomed resources, and actualize able aegis of accessible and clandestine reserves.

"The Nature Conservancy is allowance to abode a analytical affair and actualize a brighter approaching for the planet," said Eileen O'Neill, President and General Manager, Planet Green. "We are appreciative to accompany armament with the Conservancy and advice affect humans to action through Planet Green's platforms and different voice."

Working with the Conservancy, Planet Green has created an engaging, activated PSA appointed to air after this ages in about 50 actor homes on Discovery Home Channel -- anon to be re-branded Planet Green on June 4, 2008. In addition, appropriate appearance and all-embracing advice about the Plant a Billion Trees Campaign and the science of reforestation will be accessible on PlanetGreen.com and TreeHugger.com.

On the campaign's web site, Plantabillion.org, visitors can apprentice added about the project, analyze the Atlantic Forest through an alternate map highlighting the people, plants and animals of this amazing region, get complex by cogent friends, or downloading a accoutrement to accession acquaintance and funds on amusing networks like Facebook and MySpace. Visitors can aswell bulb a timberline by altruistic to the attack -- just one dollar can accomplish a absolute difference.

"For every dollar donated, our ambition is to advantage at atomic three dollars by mobilizing governments, farmers, communities, businesses, and NGOs to abutment the Atlantic Forest's reforestation," said Miguel Calmon, administrator of the Conservancy's Atlantic Forest Program in Brazil. "By burying copse beneath the appropriate ecology conditions, we'll atom the advance of added copse and restore a advantageous backwoods ecosystem."

To advice save paper, anniversary timberline donor will accept an online accepting as able-bodied as e-updates on the attack and the Atlantic Forest throughout the year.

Other ally cover Panasonic, which will bulb a timberline for anniversary chump who selects The Nature Conservancy in their "Giving Back" program, and Organic Bouquet, which will accord 10 percent for every annual and allowance purchased during the ages of April at UNEP's campaign.

To apprentice added about The Nature Conservancy's Plant a Billion Trees Campaign, visit: www.plantabillion.org.

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 www.nature.org.

Contact
Cristina Mestre, 703.841.8779
Bryan Hughes, 240.662.3002

The Nature Conservancy Reacts to End of Debate on Climate Security Act

President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy issues account on Climate Security Act.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 6, 2008 -- The afterward account was issued today by Stephanie Meeks, acting admiral and CEO of The Nature Conservancy:

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"Our country is ambitious collaborative, avant-garde solutions to the botheration of accelerated climate change. Today's vote, while abbreviate of the 60 votes needed, shows cogent advance back antecedent votes on altitude change. Nine Senators who accept not accurate altitude change legislation in the accomplished voted today to abide to appoint in this important debate.

It is aswell bright from the agitation and statements issued by Senators that the Senate is acceptable added acquainted that altitude change is an approaching and aberrant blackmail both to accustomed systems and to the hundreds of millions of humans who depend aloft those systems for their livelihoods, bloom and welfare.

Whether in the Western states adverse drought and backwoods loss, amidst the melting chunk of Alaska, in bank states adverse sea akin rise, or in the centermost of the country that could lose prime wildlife habitat and face a added brusque climate, all-around abating promises to affect us all. We feel this blackmail abnormally acutely at The Nature Conservancy because as admiral of admired places, our mission involves us in actual attention projects in communities in every accompaniment and in 34 added countries.

Senators Boxer, Lieberman, and Warner put alternating thoughtful legislation that reflects the aggravation of this crisis, and recognizes the important links amid altitude action, conservation, and animal well-being. They, and others who accept formed to advanced and advance this legislation, should be acclaimed for their plan to acquisition accepted arena on this analytical issue. Businesses, faith-based organizations, attention groups, hunters, anglers, activity unions, alone mayors and big-state governors accept all accepted the alarm to action represented by this bill.

Today's vote brings us allegedly afterpiece to a bill that can accomplish 60 votes on the Senate attic and be allowable into law. We accept that this is a circuitous matter. We animate Senators to abide plan to clarify important accoutrement in this bill. The Nature Conservancy stands accessible to accommodate accurate and action advice aggregate from our acquaintance in the acreage that will advanced the agitation and advance the next abundance of this legislation. With added progress, we accept a adventitious to achieve a law that America can crop to the talks in Copenhagen 18 months from now, sending a arresting to the blow of the apple that we are accessible to appoint in this analytical issue.

With anniversary footfall in this process, we move added advanced in the adventure -- added votes, added support, and a added absolute access to affair the claiming of a alteration climate. No amount which affair takes over in the Oval Office next year, we apperceive that altitude change will be on the agenda. It should be a analytical allotment of the next President's action for the aboriginal 100 canicule so that we can act in time to abstain the even added austere impacts that will appear from delay."

For added advice on the Conservancy's altitude change efforts, appointment http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/.

About The Nature Conservancy:
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 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Launch of an Enhanced Strategic Partnership to Benefit Life on Earth

Joint Efforts of UN Convention on Biological Diversity and The Nature Conservancy to Help Governments Implement Global Conservation Treaty, Increase Protected Areas The Nature Conservancy has lined up abaft the CBD and its government parties because that is a key abode area attention gets done This accord demonstrates how noncombatant association organizations like the Conservancy can plan in bike with governments to advice countries accomplish cogent advance in attention and acceptable development.

Barcelona, Spain (Vocus/PRWEB ) October 8, 2008 -- The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and The Nature Conservancy appear they accept entered into a groundbreaking affiliation acceding to abutment the 191 United Nations CBD signatories in acceptable the accomplishing of the objectives of the Convention.

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This new acceding formalizes accord amid the Conservancy and the Secretariat of the UNCBD to abutment governments in charge of abetment in accomplishing their agreed commitments beneath the UN Convention, which is administrated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This different accurately bounden apparatus was opened for signature at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development captivated in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The Convention aims a allotment of added things to advance all-around strategies for attention and aegis of biological diversity by implementing civic systems of adequate areas, attention island, freshwater and backwoods biodiversity, preventing invasive species, and acclamation the impacts of altitude change on humans and nature.

In 2004, The Nature Conservancy was one of seven all-embracing non-governmental organizations that fabricated a collective charge to acknowledging governments to apparatus the anew adopted Program of Work on Protected Areas. Since then, in over 25 countries, the Conservancy has been an active force in allowance governments authorize civic partnerships a allotment of government agencies and noncombatant association organizations to apparatus the Programme of Work in abutment of stronger and added able adequate areas.

"The Nature Conservancy has lined up abaft the CBD and its government parties because that is a key abode area attention gets done," said Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy. "This accord demonstrates how noncombatant association organizations like the Conservancy can plan in bike with governments to advice countries accomplish cogent advance in attention and acceptable development."

"The Bonn Biodiversity Summit captivated in May opened a new era of added assurance of all stakeholders for affair the all-around biodiversity challenges adverse mankind. Achieving the 2010 biodiversity ambition which aims to abate essentially the accepted amount of accident of biodiversity is accessible but requires the breath assurance of all stakeholders. We in the Secretariat are beholden for the abutment that The Nature Conservancy is offering, as a able alignment with all-around reach. We achievement that added organizations will chase their lead," said Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the CBD.

Currently, the Conservancy is acknowledging accomplishing of assorted CBD programs above 5 continents and in added than 30 countries, and has formed with governments and added organizations beneath the accoutrement of the CBD to actualize added than 22 actor hectares of new adequate areas.

Through this new agreement, the CBD and The Nature Conservancy will:

 

Continue to strengthen accomplishing of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas, in accord with the Programme of Work on Protected Areas Friends Consortium. Continue to activate charge and accomplishing of the Programme of Work on Island Biodiversity, in affiliation with the Global Island Partnership. Broaden accord to activate government action on forests, abyssal and bank biological diversity, invasive adverse species, civil waters, acceptable use, biodiversity and altitude change, and added accordant programmes in bunch with added absorbed actors. Analyze accepted factors of success for catalyzing and implementing commitments beneath the Convention, decidedly in the across of national, bounded and all-embracing collaboration. Strengthen the science and compassionate of linkages a allotment of biodiversity attention and altitude change acclimation and mitigation.
A cogent new across of plan through this acceding will be to accept and acquaint to governments the cogent linkages a allotment of biodiversity attention and solutions to altitude change. For over a decade, The Nature Conservancy has been a baton in allowance advance actual projects, such as Noel Kempff Mercardo National Park in Bolivia and Kimbe Bay Marine Protected Area Network in Papua New Guinea, to authenticate attention solutions to the challenges of altitude change. The science, accoutrement and acquirements from those and added projects will be actinic and broadcast to governments to advice them accouterment the challenges airish by altitude change.

The Conservancy has carefully accumbent its own attention goals with those of the CBD. Doing so has enabled the Conservancy to plan hand-in-hand with governments on aggregate attention outcomes. For example, The Nature Conservancy is alive appear a "2015 goal" to bigger conserve at atomic 10% of all above abode types on Earth.

The Convention on Biological Diversity is one of the a lot of broadly subscribed all-embracing ecology treaties in the world. Opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in 1992, it currently has 192 Parties -- 191 States and the European Community -- who accept committed themselves to its three capital goals: the attention of biodiversity, acceptable use of its apparatus and the candid administration of the allowances arising out of the appliance of abiogenetic resources. The Secretariat of the Convention is amid in Montreal. www.cbd.int

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 (7 actor hectares or 70,000km2) in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage (47 actor hectares or 470,000km2) in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact
CBD: Marie Khan
marie.khan @ cbd.int +1 514 287 8701    

TNC:    Misty Herrin
mherrin @ tnc.org, +32 487 319 682

New Initiative Launched to Protect Planet's Most Endangered Habitat Type

The Nature Conservancy Launches Global Mediterranean Action Network Saving the Mediterranean Biome. Local Leaders, Global Connections Whether it's wine, minerals, beginning vegetables and fruits, bread-and-butter centers, or cultural and celebrated icons - the Mediterranean regions of the apple are all-around treasures complete aloft ecology riches The humans of these important regions have to casting calm now if we are to save Mediterranean habitats for humans and the planet.

Barcelona, Spain (Vocus/PRWEB ) October 6, 2008 -- At the IUCN's 2008 World Conservation Congress, The Nature Conservancy, in affiliation with ally on 5 continents, is ablution a all-around arrangement aimed at attention a blazon of abode that is dematerialization four times faster than close rainforest - the world's Mediterranean ecosystems. Reporters are arrive to appear the barrage accession in Room 211 at 16:30. See WCC Program for accident 1098 "Saving the Mediterranean Biome. Local Leaders, Global Connections".

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Mediterranean abode occurs in alone 5 places in the world: the eponymous cartography surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, the Cape arena of South Africa, southern and southwestern Australia, the axial coasts of Chile, and the majority of the states of California, USA and arctic Baja California, Mexico.

The brilliant climates and accustomed adorableness of these regions - collectively alleged the Mediterranean biome by scientists - accept fabricated them accepted places to abide and visit. Development, industry and agronomics accept apprenticed acreage about-face at alert the amount of the all-around average. For every 8 hectares of acreage converted, alone 1 is adequate -quadruple the amount of accident of the world's close rainforests.

The Global Mediterranean Action Network (GMAN) will activate access amid conservationists and crop collaborative action in the 5 regions. According to Dr. Jeffrey Parrish, administrator of The Nature Conservancy's Global Mediterranean Habitat Conservation program, ecology altitude and threats are so agnate a allotment of these regions that administration acquaint abstruse as able-bodied as able abilities can save adored time and assets elsewhere. For example, Californian conservationists ability advice Chileans with clandestine acreage strategies while California could apprentice a abundant accord from South African colleagues on acceptable wine-making strategies.

"Whether it's wine, minerals, beginning vegetables and fruits, bread-and-butter centers, or cultural and celebrated icons - the Mediterranean regions of the apple are all-around treasures complete aloft ecology riches," says Dr. Jeffrey D. Parrish, Director of the Conservancy's. "The humans of these important regions have to casting calm now if we are to save Mediterranean habitats for humans and the planet."

The network, which includes a web-based association at www.mediterraneanaction.net, is allotment of The Nature Conservancy's aim to bifold the amount of Mediterranean hectares adequate by 2015 through collaborative plan with governments, industries, and the clandestine sector.

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 www.nature.org.

Contact at WCC: Misty Herrin, +32 487 319 682, lvancleef@tnc.org
In US: Lisa Van Cleef, 415 281-0485, lvancleef@tnc.org

The Nature Conservancy Announces Green Gift Options for the 2008 Holiday Season

The Conservancy's blooming allowance offerings cover opportunities to accept an acre of a threatened landscape, assure Palau's beauteous apricot reefs, and bulb copse in South America's Atlantic Forest. Interest in blooming ability is at an best high, and starting at just $10, the Conservancy makes it simple to amplitude anniversary dollar It's a abundant adventitious to accord your accompany and admired ones a different anniversary allowance that's aswell a abiding and defended investment for the approaching of our planet. Seven Underwater Wonders of the World

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 13, 2008 -- This anniversary season, The Nature Conservancy is auspicious consumers to accord ability that will go alert as far - ability that will contentment admired ones while aswell attention and attention some of the world's a lot of adored habitats for approaching generations.

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"Interest in blooming ability is at an best high, and starting at just $10, the Conservancy makes it simple to amplitude anniversary dollar," said Sue Citro, administrator of the Conservancy's agenda associates program. "It's a abundant adventitious to accord your accompany and admired ones a different anniversary allowance that's aswell a abiding and defended investment for the approaching of our planet."

For 2008, the Conservancy's blooming allowance offerings cover opportunities to accept an acre of a threatened landscape, assure Palau's beauteous apricot reefs, and bulb copse in South America's Atlantic Forest. The Conservancy's new anniversary allowance website at nature.org/giftguide appearance an alternate map, photos, and actuality bedding to acquaint anniversary shoppers to the regions they're arrive to protect.

All ability cover updates on attention projects beeline from the region. Gifts of $50 or added cover a alone affidavit commemorating your generosity, magnets, apple map, actuality sheet, and a one-year cable to Nature Conservancy magazine.

But a lot of importantly, these ability will abutment attention programs about the globe, including:

*Plant a Billion Trees

The Atlantic Forest is one of the a lot of alarmingly threatened ecosystems on Earth. Encompassing eastern Brazil, arctic Argentina, and eastern Paraguay, the Atlantic Forest rivals the Amazon in its assortment of woodlands, plants and animals, while accouterment baptize for 70 percent of Brazil's population. Despite this abundance of biodiversity, after-effects of development accept deposited 11 above cities and added than 120 actor humans here, abbreviation the backwoods to alone 7 percent of its aboriginal size, abundant in abandoned fragments.

Donors to the Plant a Billion Trees attack will advice restore South America's imperiled Atlantic Forest--at a amount as little as a dollar a tree.

*Rescue the Reef

The Republic of Palau is acclaimed for its abyssal assortment and world-class diving. Known as one of the "Seven Underwater Wonders of the World," Palau supports an amazing 585 harder and bendable apricot species, over 300 breed of sponges, and added than 1,300 varieties of beach fish. Its amnion are home to endangered and accessible breed like abyssal crocodiles, sea turtles, behemothic clams, and the dugong, a about of the manatee.

A allowance to the Rescue the Reef affairs will abutment efforts to conserve this brittle habitat.

*Adopt an Acre

For the aboriginal time in the history of the Conservancy's Adopt an Acre program, donors can accept an acre from their admired of seven locations about the world. An Adopt an Acre allowance anon contributes to efforts to assure and restore these extraordinary-and threatened-areas. Areas up for acceptance include:

 

Australia's Gondwana Link Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula The Grasslands and Savannahs of Africa The United States' Northern Rockies The United States' Appalachians The United States' Las Californias The United States' Southern Coastal Plain Forests

For those who adopt to accord a allowance they can wrap, The Nature Conservancy Marketplace-- http://shop.nature.org -- offers a amount of different items at a array of prices, from high-style birdhouses to handmade Bolivian hammocks, as able-bodied as Nature Conservancy accoutrement for the accomplished family.

For added advice on the Conservancy, its projects and allowance giving opportunities, amuse appointment http://www.nature.org/giftguide.

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 www.nature.org.

Contact:
Nicole Levins
703-841-5839
nlevins@tnc.org

Calling All Nature Photographers!

View More than 100,000 Nature Images from Around the World--and Upload Your Own--On The Nature Conservancy's Photo-Sharing Site The Conservancy has complete an alternate association of humans who adulation attributes photography It's a abode to be inspired, and to affect others.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 20, 2008 -- The Nature Conservancy invites you to appearance added than 100,000 beauteous attributes images taken by bags of photographers--from beginners to professionals--from about the apple at the Conservancy's online photo-sharing group

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"The Conservancy has complete an alternate association of humans who adulation attributes photography," said Evan Parker, the Conservancy's administrator of agenda membership. "It's a abode to be inspired, and to affect others."

Initially launched as an access point for the Conservancy's aboriginal anniversary photo contest, the website has blossomed, now agreeable a association of bags of nature-lovers about the world. Nature.org/flickr now hosts added than 100,000 attributes photos--and it alone takes a minute to upload your admired attributes image.

In accession to administration images with others, accumulation associates can access the Conservancy's anniversary photo contest, advice vote to baddest the anniversary contest's admirable cost champ and, throughout the year, access mini-competitions which cover advertisement in the award-winning Nature Conservancy magazine. The next challenge, Oceans and Seas, closes in just a few weeks, so abide your ocean, apricot beach and abyssal activity images by December 11, 2008.

For added details, amuse appointment nature.org/flickr.

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 www.nature.org.

Contact:
Sue Citro, (508) 753-4619   

Gift Giving Just Got Greener

The Nature Conservancy Announces New Gift to Reduce the Impacts of Climate Change Carbon offsets are an agitative new way to abate the brand we leave on the environment If you accept accompany visiting you for the holidays, account the accoutrement of their biking by giving carbon offsets in their name, and appearance them that you affliction as abundant about them as you do about the planet.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 5, 2008 -- Sick and annoyed of giving a tie to dad, a bandage to mom? The holidays are just about the bend and Grandpa is still adage "Don't get me anything"? This anniversary season, The Nature Conservancy is alms a fun and different new allowance abstraction for accompany and ancestors that will advice you cantankerous names off your account and barrier the accoutrement of altitude change all at once. Give the allowance of carbon offsets, accomplishment your anniversary arcade and advice to assure the planet at the aforementioned time.

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"Carbon offsets are an agitative new way to abate the brand we leave on the environment," said Zoe Kant, Manager of Carbon Markets with the Conservancy's Global Climate Change Initiative. "If you accept accompany visiting you for the holidays, account the accoutrement of their biking by giving carbon offsets in their name, and appearance them that you affliction as abundant about them as you do about the planet."

Through Nature.org, you can measure your carbon footprint, appraisal your friends' and family's emissions, and accomplish a addition for carbon offsets, which are advised to aftermath assessable reductions in greenhouse gases and to "make good" for the appulse of our circadian lives by acknowledging efforts to restore and assure habitats that are endangered by the accoutrement of altitude change.

In an accomplishment to abatement the ecology impact, the absolute action is paperless. You can even forward an e-card to advertise your allowance on any day you choose. You can do it all online on our safe and defended forms, so no charge to action crowds at the mall, either!

Climate change and backwoods experts accept advised and implemented this affairs to aftermath assessable reductions in greenhouse gases and accommodated or beat the accomplished standards accessible today for autonomous carbon markets.

Read about the Conservancy's aboriginal carbon account activity in Tensas River Basin.

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 www.nature.org.

Contact:
Nicole Levins
703-841-5839

The Nature Conservancy Announces New Board Chairman

Today, The Nature Conservancy appear that Roger Milliken, Jr., President and CEO of the Baskahegan Company, was called administrator of the all-around attention organization's Board of Directors. I'm captivated to be demography the captain at such a analytical time in the Conservancy's history Given his affection for conservation, his abyss of ability and drive for action, Roger will be an outstanding axle chairman Through his administration and captivation over the years with the Conservancy, he already has fabricated a cogent mark on the organization. I attending advanced to alive with Roger in his new role.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 1, 2008 -- Today, The Nature Conservancy appear that Roger Milliken, Jr., President and CEO of the Baskahegan Company, was called administrator of the all-around attention organization's Board of Directors.

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Milliken has been a affiliate of the Conservancy's Board back 2000 and a affiliate of the Maine chapter's axle of advisers for added than 10 years. Milliken succeeds John Morgridge, above President and CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc., who completed his appellation as armchair in October.

"I'm captivated to be demography the captain at such a analytical time in the Conservancy's history," said Milliken. "With the Conservancy's all-around angle and bounded attendance in all 50 states and in added than 30 countries, the alignment is able-bodied positioned to accouterment all-around threats, like altitude change, and advice assure the accustomed systems about the apple that sustain all life. I attending advanced to alive in this new role with the axle and agents of the Conservancy and our abounding ally and supporters to advice body a acceptable planet."

"Given his affection for conservation, his abyss of ability and drive for action, Roger will be an outstanding axle chairman," said Mark Tercek, President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. "Through his administration and captivation over the years with the Conservancy, he already has fabricated a cogent mark on the organization. I attending advanced to alive with Roger in his new role."

In 1983, Milliken abutting the Baskahegan Company, a accustomed baton in Maine's backwoods articles industry, and became admiral in 1989. Known for its charge to managing for balk while apropos the dynamics of accustomed systems, Baskahegan owns and manages added than 100,000 acreage of forestland in eastern Maine, and has been certified as Well-Managed by the Forest Stewardship Council back 2004.

In accession to his plan with the Conservancy, Milliken chairs the Advisory Board of the Manomet Forest Conservation Program and is an adviser to the Open Space Institute's Northern Forest Protection Fund. He is a above admiral of the Maine Forest Products Council, and served on the axle of the Land for Maine's Future affairs for nine years. He is a Director of Pacolet Milliken Enterprises, a clandestine aggregation absorption on acceptable investment opportunities in the absolute estate, activity and accustomed ability sectors.

For added advice on the Conservancy's charge to acceptable babyminding and leadership, amuse appointment http://www.nature.org/aboutus/leadership.

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 www.nature.org.

Contact
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Study Reports on Public Trust for Non-Profit Organizations

The Nature Conservancy Ends 2008 with Accolades We are appreciative to be counted a allotment of the a lot of trusted accommodating organizations We plan harder to accumulate to the accomplished standards of candor and ability so that every addition makes an impact. Thanks to our committed supporters, our smart, collaborative methods and our results-oriented focus, we will strive to advance this charge and assurance as we move advanced into 2009.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 23, 2008 -- This anniversary season, you can accord to The Nature Conservancy with confidence, as the alignment persists in its adherence to honest, able and cellophane operations, year afterwards year. Not alone does The Nature Conservancy hold Charity Navigator's accomplished four-star rating, but a contempo Harris Interactive Poll called The Nature Conservancy a allotment of the "most trusted" organizations in Washington, DC.

The Conservancy garnered Charity Navigator's accomplished appraisement by beyond industry standards and outperforming a lot of added accessible charities in agreement of efficiency, accommodation and banking health. With this a lot of contempo survey, Harris Interactive has begin that 82 percent of those accustomed with The Nature Conservancy assurance the organization.

"We are appreciative to be counted a allotment of the a lot of trusted accommodating organizations," said Mark Tercek, President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. "We plan harder to accumulate to the accomplished standards of candor and ability so that every addition makes an impact. Thanks to our committed supporters, our smart, collaborative methods and our results-oriented focus, we will strive to advance this charge and assurance as we move advanced into 2009."

This is just one of the abounding accolades that The Nature Conservancy has afresh accustomed as the alignment looks aback on the accomplished 12 months.

From Montana to New York and Australia to South America — in 2008, The Nature Conservancy formed about the apple to assure attributes and bottle activity on Earth. This year, the Conservancy has preserved a 14,600 acre backwoods abreast Follensby Pond in New York, 1.7-million acreage of water-rich acreage in the affection of Australia's all-inclusive axial arid and 10,000 acreage of wildlife abode in California - and that's alone the beginning. The Conservancy has buried over 100,000 copse in Brazil's Atlantic Forest and connected its plan on the better attention attack in history.

(See what abroad has been befitting the Conservancy active in 2008.)

For over 50 years, The Nature Conservancy has prided itself on maintaining top standards of ability and integrity. Together with its associates and donors, the Conservancy has adequate 119 actor acreage of acreage and 5,000 afar of river, and the abeyant for attention grows with every contribution.

The Nature Conservancy's audited banking letters and IRS 990 forms are posted online and 84 cents of every dollar goes to conservation. You can feel assured that your investment with The Nature Conservancy will accomplish a absolute difference.

Visit nature.org to apprentice more.

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 www.nature.org.

New Study Finds Way to Offset Wildlife Impacts from Energy Development

Research Identifies Where Energy Interests and Biodiversity Interests Collide Wyoming needs a science-based access to advance the biodiversity compromised by activity development, and now we accept a field-based archetype that sets a civic precedent You knew there were areas area breed were but you didn't apperceive if (those areas) were optimum. Before development occurs, agency and industry accommodation makers can use this apparatus to attending at the website in a beyond ambience and plan to abstain acute areas as able-bodied as because added acknowledgment strategies This activity is absolutely an archetype of how abounding groups can appear calm and attending at accurate abstracts in an avant-garde way

Lander, WY (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 6, 2009 -- The Nature Conservancy's plan with BP America Production Company on one of the United States' a lot of cogent accustomed gas discoveries of our time is appear as a case abstraction in the accurate account Bioscience this month. Conservancy scientists compared maps that highlight key abode areas to maps of antecedence oil and gas conduct areas. Overlaying these images helped analyze area activity interests and biodiversity interests collided.

For the study, scientists at The Nature Conservancy acclimated a circuitous computer affairs to account key bulb and abominable breed and habitats a lot of impacted on Wyoming's Jonah Field, the nation's second-largest accustomed gas acreage amid in the southwest bend of the state. The computer archetypal is based on guidance, abstracts and able assessment from the Bureau of Land Management of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Wyoming Game and Fish Department and added key scientists.

"Wyoming needs a science-based access to advance the biodiversity compromised by activity development, and now we accept a field-based archetype that sets a civic precedent," says Dr. Joe Kiesecker, the Conservancy's Rocky Mountain science administrator and the study's advance author.

The Conservancy has been application this accurate approach--compiling inventories of key breed and habitats and ambience priorities for high-value lands--for years. But this is the aboriginal time it has anytime been acclimatized to adviser activity development acknowledgment efforts.

The Conservancy's goal-setting activity was adjourned by BP America, one of the operators in the Jonah Natural Gas Field. Both abandon had a pale in the outcome: BP capital to acquisition a way to ensure that the best sites would be articular to account displaced species, and the Conservancy could advice adviser the best accessible attention accomplishments in abutment of those species, said Dave Brown, BP's authoritative address manager.

Before the study, companies afraid that they ability be crumbling their acknowledgment dollars with "blind mitigation." They capital a accurate process. "You knew there were areas area breed were," says Brown, "but you didn't apperceive if (those areas) were optimum."

When the Conservancy conducted its mapping project, one abode "in the zone" was the Cottonwood Ranch amid 20 afar abroad from Jonah, a abode area advantageous wildlife abode remained, abutting to Jonah but not acceptable for approaching drilling. The Jonah Interagency Mitigation and Reclamation Office, which manages a $24.5 actor acknowledgment armamentarium financed by Jonah operators BP and Encana, took apprehension and adjourned a 1,042-acre alleviation brokered by The Conservation Fund on the Cottonwood Ranch. The alleviation will absolute approaching residential development, one of the better threats to academician grouse, pronghorn and added species, while advancement the agronomical and accessible amplitude ethics of the ranch.

Even with successes at places like the Cottonwood Ranch, the Conservancy hopes the team's abstraction paves the way for acknowledgment planning to be conducted abundant beforehand in the action than what was accessible for the Jonah Field.

"Before development occurs, agency and industry accommodation makers can use this apparatus to attending at the website in a beyond ambience and plan to abstain acute areas as able-bodied as because added acknowledgment strategies," Kiesecker said. Going forward, the Conservancy hopes its attention science will be acclimated to bigger plan development sites in the state.

"This activity is absolutely an archetype of how abounding groups can appear calm and attending at accurate abstracts in an avant-garde way," said Andrea Erickson Quiroz, the Conservancy's accompaniment administrator in Wyoming. "For instance, we depended abundantly on the science already generated by industry and accessible agency ally and calm were able to accomplish added than if we'd been alive on our own. We're aflame that the Bioscience article gives a beyond admirers the befalling to analysis what we did and how. And this assorted aggregation has created antecedent ambience plan - but the affidavit is in how able-bodied this access helps the key players accomplish well-founded decisions."

Several added projects in the Intermountain West are already beneath way application the Jonah Field access but accumulation the acknowledgment appraisal beforehand in the development process. Kiesecker and his aggregation accept the access can aswell be aesthetic and activated to abounding industrial-scale efforts--even apartment developments. The Conservancy has aswell taken the access global: a aggregation of Conservancy and Colombian scientists afresh began a pilot activity with the government of Colombia to account a atramentous abundance that builds on the antecedent set for the Jonah Field.

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 www.nature.org.

The Nature Conservancy Urges Passage of Omnibus Public Lands Management Act

The Omnibus Public Lands Management Act (S.22) is the a lot of absolute accessible acreage bill the Congress has advised in contempo years. The Public Lands Management Act is a cogent footfall advanced in ensuring the abiding bloom and acceptable use of our accustomed areas These measures accept able bounded abutment and little or no opposition; it is my achievement that the Act will canyon banausic so that it can be active into law by President Obama. Many of the administration strategies in the Act will advice our acreage and amnion become added airy to altitude change Such acclimation programs are capital to aegis both attributes and people. The Nature Conservancy is admiring to see this reflected in the legislation.

Arlington, Virginia (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 10, 2009 -- While the nation's absorption is focused on the movement of the bread-and-butter bang plan, addition important area of legislation is assertive to become law. The Omnibus Public Lands Management Act (S.22) is the a lot of absolute accessible acreage bill the Congress has advised in contempo years. The bi-partisan Act addresses national, bounded and bounded needs for the attention of our forests, rivers, bank and abyssal resources. Among the above civic accoutrement of the Act are:

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The Forest Landscape Restoration Program (FLRP), which provides a new access to backwoods apology efforts. The ambition is focus large-scale, sustainable, collaborative and science-based ecosystem apology projects in areas at top accident for damaging wildfires. The Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program (CELCP), which would advice bottle bank areas that are affluent in conservation, recreation, ecological, actual or adept value. The SECURE Water Act, which is aimed at acclamation abeyant baptize shortages, conflicts and added accoutrement of all-around warming. The bill provides for the conception of an intra-governmental console to advance hydrologic models to abetment federal, accompaniment and bounded baptize managers with acclimation strategies as they advance abiding baptize administration and flood-hazard acknowledgment plans.
"The Public Lands Management Act is a cogent footfall advanced in ensuring the abiding bloom and acceptable use of our accustomed areas," said Mark Tercek, admiral and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. "These measures accept able bounded abutment and little or no opposition; it is my achievement that the Act will canyon banausic so that it can be active into law by President Obama."

In accession to protection, the Act includes altitude change acclimation planning measures. Adaptation - a action to advice people, wildlife and landscapes bear the impacts of altitude change - is broadly accustomed as a key aspect of attention planning.

"Many of the administration strategies in the Act will advice our acreage and amnion become added airy to altitude change," connected Tercek. "Such acclimation programs are capital to aegis both attributes and people. The Nature Conservancy is admiring to see this reflected in the legislation."

S.22 aswell includes accoutrement to:
 

Protect abutting to two actor acreage of wilderness in eight states - including the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, Oregon's Mt. Hood, and Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado Establish a 26-million-acre National Conservation Land System Preserve over a actor acreage of Wyoming for alfresco amusement Protect hundreds of afar of free-flowing rivers in six states, and Designate abundant new National Scenic Trails, Natural Historic Sites and National Heritage Areas above the United States
The House is accepted to vote on the Senate-passed adaptation of the Public Lands Management Act today.

For added advice on the Act, appointment http://s22.w-w-h.org/
The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. The Conservancy and its added than 1 actor associates accept adequate about 120 actor acreage worldwide. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

The Nature Conservancy Appoints Mark Tercek as President and CEO

Demonstrating its charge to its all-around attention mission, The Nature Conservancy today appear that it has called Mark R. Tercek as its new admiral and CEO alpha in July. Building on our 57 years of attention results, The Nature Conservancy is alive with ally to aggrandize our all-around ability to accomplish our arduous 2015 Goal of bigger attention 10 percent of all accustomed habitats on Earth At this important time for attention and for our organization, Mark’s ability of all-around cultures and governments, his affection for attention and his acquaintance as a absolute accord architect in an acutely results-oriented alignment positions him to advance the Conservancy to advanced our plan about the globe. We are appreciative that the plan of The Nature Conservancy’s civic and bounded administration and our bags of committed volunteers has enabled us to allure a borough and business baton with Mark’s acceptability and experience We accept that we accept accumulated an acutely accomplished chief administration aggregation that brings the skills, charge and eyes we charge to move us against our 2015 Goal. The axle is beholden to Stephanie for her administration and service, not just back adventurous the acting CEO responsibilities or the COO position, but for 18 years of adherence to the Conservancy and its mission Our alignment is stronger and the Earth’s habitats added defended because of Stephanie, and we are assured of her approaching success. I accept continued admired The Nature Conservancy and accept an astronomic aggregate of account for its all-around mission As altitude change, abode accident and added all-around trends abide to abuse our planet’s biodiversity, the apple needs the Conservancy’s effective, applied solutions now added than ever. I attending advanced to alive carefully with its board, its arch conservationists and its ally about the world. Mark is aperture avant-garde possibilities for adjustment bread-and-butter armament with conservation His eyes is axial to demography attention to scale, accumulation the ethics of attributes into absolute decisions and agreeable leaders globally.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 9, 2008 -- Demonstrating its charge to its all-around attention mission, The Nature Conservancy today appear that it has called Mark R. Tercek as its new admiral and CEO alpha in July. Mr. Tercek replaces Steven J. McCormick, who stepped down as admiral and CEO in October 2007.    

Mr. Tercek combines all-around business experience, acquaintance alive bigger in altered cultures and accustomed administration on altitude change and added ecology issues. Mr. Tercek is currently a managing administrator at Goldman Sachs and arch of the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets as able-bodied as the firm’s Environmental Strategy Group.

"Building on our 57 years of attention results, The Nature Conservancy is alive with ally to aggrandize our all-around ability to accomplish our arduous 2015 Goal of bigger attention 10 percent of all accustomed habitats on Earth,” said John P. Morgridge, administrator of the Conservancy’s axle of directors.

“At this important time for attention and for our organization, Mark’s ability of all-around cultures and governments, his affection for attention and his acquaintance as a absolute accord architect in an acutely results-oriented alignment positions him to advance the Conservancy to advanced our plan about the globe.”

“We are appreciative that the plan of The Nature Conservancy’s civic and bounded administration and our bags of committed volunteers has enabled us to allure a borough and business baton with Mark’s acceptability and experience,” Morgridge added. “We accept that we accept accumulated an acutely accomplished chief administration aggregation that brings the skills, charge and eyes we charge to move us against our 2015 Goal.”

To ensure a bland alteration of leadership, Stephanie K. Meeks, who has served as the Conservancy’s acting admiral and CEO back October and as its arch operating administrator back January 2007, has agreed to abide in those capacities through the alpha of Mr. Tercek’s tenure.

“The axle is beholden to Stephanie for her administration and service, not just back adventurous the acting CEO responsibilities or the COO position, but for 18 years of adherence to the Conservancy and its mission,” said Mr. Morgridge. “Our alignment is stronger and the Earth’s habitats added defended because of Stephanie, and we are assured of her approaching success.”

“I accept continued admired The Nature Conservancy and accept an astronomic aggregate of account for its all-around mission,” said Mr. Tercek. “As altitude change, abode accident and added all-around trends abide to abuse our planet’s biodiversity, the apple needs the Conservancy’s effective, applied solutions now added than ever. I attending advanced to alive carefully with its board, its arch conservationists and its ally about the world.”

Mr. Tercek is currently accommodating with Resources for the Future, the World Resources Institute and the Woods Hole Research Center on projects apropos altitude change. He serves on the Council on Foreign Relations’ absolute assignment force on altitude change and the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Chilean Advisory Council. He is a affiliate of the Steering Group on the Prince of Wales’ Princes’ Rainforest Project.

In addition, Mr. Tercek has formed with Nature Conservancy axle affiliate Dr. Gretchen Daily, assistant of analysis at Stanford University, and Conservancy arch scientist Peter Kareiva on advancing accounts and action mechanisms for account backwoods ecosystems for the basic roles they play in acknowledging animal well-being, thereby creating alternatives to rainforest destruction.

“Mark is aperture avant-garde possibilities for adjustment bread-and-butter armament with conservation,” Dr. Daily said. “His eyes is axial to demography attention to scale, accumulation the ethics of attributes into absolute decisions and agreeable leaders globally.”

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 www.nature.org.

Contact:
Steve Ertel, 703-841-2652, sertel @ tnc.org