
The Nature Conservancy is a US charitable environmental organization that works to preserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. Read more at Wikipedia



Endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle hatchlings are released after being kept in an incubation facility. The Nature Conservancy of Texas has proposed $5 million to help protect the turtles.



UNDATED — Submitted — March 20, 2012 — Aerial view of the 550-square-kilometre Darkwoods preserve purchased by the Nature Conservancy of Canada in 2008 with help from the federal government and awarded money from the Pacific Carbon Trust for reducing greenhouse gas emission by setting aside timber that will not be logged.
(With carbon offset story by Gorgon Hoekstra.)
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This program is putting youth to work and making our nation's public lands more accessible ... With 80 percent of our country now living in urban areas, it is through partnerships like these that we are finding opportunities for Americans to work, live and play on our forests and grasslands and experience America's great outdoors....
President Obama's call to expand summer job opportunities for young people is helping us engage and train the next generation of natural resource professionals and build a workforce that represents all of America...
With the addition of these two outstanding sites, we now have 593 national natural landmarks, representing the extraordinary geological and ecological diversity of our nation ... These designations provide a means to work in voluntary partnership with public and private landowners to research, monitor and preserve our natural treasures for generations to come....