Adapting to Climate Change: Fire Management
Although Integrated Fire Management is not a new term, IFM — as it is defined by the Conservancy (see definition below) — is a promising new, scaleable framework that works in places with fire-dependent ecosystems as well as places with fire-sensitive ecosystems. Its effectiveness is not dependent on a country’s development status. The Nature Conservancy is using this framework to address fire-related conservation threats at global, national and local scales.
Our Impact: Fire Management »
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A Conservation Success in a Harsh Land
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| Harold E. Malde |
The Chihuahuan Desert Borderlands span millions of acres in northern Mexico and Texas, and now, an ambitious conservation plan for the region has at last been filled. Mexican president Felipe Calderón issued a decree creating the 826,000-acre Ocampo Flora and Fauna Protection Area, creating a nearly contiguous conservation area stretching across 2 million acres.
Protecting a Desolate Area’s Fragile Resources »
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Adapting to Climate Change: Kimbe Bay
Kimbe Bay is part of the global center of marine diversity called the Coral Triangle, which supports 76 percent of the world’s coral species.
Here, The Nature Conservancy helped design the first network of marine protected areas (MPAs) designed to incorporate the principle of reef resiliency.
Our Impact: Kimbe Bay »
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Protecting the Marbled Murrelet
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| Photo © Phil Green/TNC |
Marbled murrelets can fly faster than 40 miles an hour but it's lack of maneuverability in flight makes it a challenge for the murrelet to land on a branch. So it's really important for the forest to have openings and corridors under the canopy to create favorable nesting conditions. We're using selective and sustainable loggint in an old-growth forest to actually help revive this threatened seabird.
Can Sustainable Logging Save A Sea Bird? »
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Educating with the Carbon Footprint Calculator
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| 2002 Corbis |
Inevitably, in going about our daily lives — commuting, sheltering our families, eating — each of us contributes to the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. Yet, there are many things each of us, as individuals, can do to reduce our carbon emissions. The choices we make in our homes, our travel, the food we eat, and what we buy and throw away all influence our carbon footprint and can help ensure a stable climate for future generations.
Use The Nature Conservancy's carbon footprint calculator to measure your impact on our climate. Our carbon footprint calculator estimates how many tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases your choices create each year.
What's Your Carbon Footprint? »
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Government Funding Priority Given to San Pedro River
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| Harold E. Malde |
President Barack Obama's released 2010 budget request includes funding to help conserve an iconic piece of Arizona – the San Pedro River and the riparian forest along its banks. The San Pedro River provides critical habitat that supports nearly half of all bird species found in the United States and Arizona's valuable water supply.
An Opportunity for a Sustainable Future in Arizona »
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Disney Co. spending $7M on conservation projects
Seeking to help fight climate change, the Walt Disney Co. says it will spend $7 million in partnership with three conservation groups to protect tens of thousands of acres of forests lands in the Congo basin, the Amazon basin and in two regions of the United States.
The projects announced Tuesday are designed to work with local communities to either plant trees or set aside forest lands for protection against logging.
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Key Property Purchased on Oregon’s Iconic Table Rocks
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| Alan D. St. John |
The Nature Conservancy is purchasing 1,710 acres on the Table Rocks near Medford, Oregon. This will guarantee that the Table Rocks will be permanently protected for rare plants and wildlife and sustain a recreation area for the many visitors who hike annually in the spring to take in nature in its abundance.
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Welcoming Birds Back to Alaska
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| Michael McBride |
Something's awry on the unfortunately but aptly named Rat Island, a 10-square-mile dot in the Aleutians. Invasive rats have pillaged seabird nests here since they first spilled from a 1780's shipwreck that — except for the stowaway rats — left no survivors.
So in September 2008, The Nature Conservancy and its partners set out across the Bering Sea to eradicate the rats once and for all — and embark on the most ambitious island habitat restoration project ever undertaken in the Northern Hemisphere, involving helicopters and a boat ride into the teeth of North Pacific's worst weather.
Find out How We Did It »
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Bison back at Kansas prairie after 140 years
A long-gone species has returned home, not with a thunder of hooves, but with muffled snorts and a short gallop from muddy pen to grassy range.
A baker's dozen of bison had been plucked from a herd of 500 in South Dakota and trucked to east-central Kansas 10 days before their release late last week.
Once here, they were crowded in a snug pen to bond them as a new mini-herd and get them accustomed to the grassland around them.
"This is probably the first time bison have been on this ground in 140 years," said Alan Pollom, the Kansas director of the Nature Conservancy. Although the preserve is run by the National Park Service, much of the property remains owned by the conservancy.
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