The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is an American charitable environmental association with it's headquarter in Arlington, Virginia. Its objective is to "conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends." The Indiana Dunes of Northwest Indiana played a central role in the development of The Nature Conservancy.  The first president, Cyrus Mark of the Illinois Nature Conservancy fundraised for the first purchases of the Illinois Nature Conservancy, Volo Bog in northern Illinois. Established in Arlington, Virginia, in 1951, The Nature Conservancy at present works in over 35 countries, comprising all 50 states of the United States. The Conservancy has more than one million members, and has secluded more than 119,000,000 acres (48,000,000 ha) of land and 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of rivers globally. The Nature Conservancy also functions over 100 marine conservation ventures worldwide. As of 2014, the organization's possessions total $6.18 billion. The Nature Conservancy is the biggest environmental nonprofit by property and by income in the Americas.

The Nature Conservancy ranked as one of the most believed national groups in Harris Interactive polls each year since 2005. Forbes magazine graded The Nature Conservancy's fundraising competency at 88 % in 2005 survey of the biggest U.S. charities. The Conservancy was honored by a two-star rating from Charity Navigator, in 2012 and three-star in 2010. It also was named "10 of the Best Charities Everyone's Heard Of" by that organization in 2005 on their list. The American Institute of Philanthropy gave the Conservancy an A− rating and keeps it on its list of "Top-Rated Charities". The Nature Conservancy is headed by President and CEO Mark Tercek, an ex-managing director at Goldman Sachs and an extra professor at the New York University Stern School of Business. The organization represents from all sections of the community.

Approach

The Nature Conservancy adopts a scientific approach to conservation, selecting the regions it wants to preserve on the basis of analysis on what is required to guarantee the protection of the local plants, animals, and ecosystems. The Nature Conservancy is one of the world's leading environmental organizations as considered by number of members and area preserved. It is a nonprofit organization held up mainly by private donations. The Nature Conservancy functions with all segments of society comprising individuals, communities, businesses, partner organizations and government agencies to achieve its objectives. The Nature Conservancy is well- known for working successfully and coordinately with traditional land holders such as farmers and ranchers, with whom it allies when such a affiliation provides an prospect to advance mutual objectives. The Nature Conservancy is in the front of clandestine conservation groups executing prearranged fire to reinstate and preserve healthy ecosystems and working to tackle the coercion to biodiversity created by non-native and invasive plants and animals. The Nature Conservancy has initiated new land preservation methods such as the conservation simplicity and debt for nature substitutions. Conservation simplicity is a way for land owners to guarantee that their land remains in its natural condition while resourcing on some of the land's prospective development value. Debt for nature substitutions are tools used to persuade natural area conservation in third world countries while supporting the country economically as well: in swapping for setting aside land, some of the country's foreign debt is exonerated.

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The Nature Conservancy is extending worldwide conservation efforts including work in Asia, Central America, South America and North America, Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Rim. Progressively, the Conservancy centers on projects at considerable scale, recognizing the risk of habitat destruction brings to plants and animals. The Nature Conservancy was active in the formation of the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado in 2004. The Conservancy's hard work in China's Yunnan state, one of the most crucial centers of plant diversity in the northern temperate hemisphere, provide as a model for nearby based ecotourism with a universal impact. The Nature Conservancy and its conservation associate, Pronatura Peninsula Yucatán, are working to stop deforestation on personal lands in and around the 1.8 million acre (7,300 km²) of Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, beside the Guatemala–Mexico border. In November 2004, 370,000 acres (1,500 km²) of endangered tropical forest in Calakmul were eternally protected under a historic land agreement between the Mexican national and state government, Pronatura Peninsula Yucatán, four local communities and the Conservancy.