Four years later he donated the land to the Nature Conservancy, the first of his ten easements.
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The Nature Conservancy is the environmental group that environmentalists love to hate.
But a partnership among The Nature Conservancy, the University of Georgia and the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District are working to bring down the cost for Flint River farmers by supplementing their contributions with a variety of grants and federal funding sources, including the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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According to the Nature Conservancy, if the present rate of destruction continues, 70 percent of the world's coral reefs will be destroyed by the year 2050.
For example, as of 2009, the Santa Cruz Island fox population had rebounded to 700 from fewer than 100, according to The Nature Conservancy, one of the landowners on the island.
The new energy development is "almost a spider web coming down to the forest, " said Nels Johnson of the Pennsylvania chapter of The Nature Conservancy, which estimates the state could see thousands of miles of new pipelines over the next two decades.
"You're requiring all kinds of random events to happen simultaneously, " said Lindsay Chadderton of The Nature Conservancy, who contributed to the paper.
Guerrero, The Nature Conservancy's man in the field, says Cargill is persuading farmers that they have a choice: get legal or go broke.
Daily works on the Natural Capital Project, a joint venture of Stanford, the University of Minnesota, the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy to develop standard tools for the measurement of natural capital.
The lake's owner, the Nature Conservancy, asks that they not: The ecosystem is home to the endangered 2-inch Borax Lake chub, which exists only here.
New York's Department of Transportation has incorporated into its project planning a simple computer tool developed by The Nature Conservancy to highlight areas where reconstruction will have the greatest benefit for wildlife.
The Nature Conservancy says Pennsylvania already has more than 600 of the giant blades, with the potential for thousands more in coming decades.
The paper summarizes findings by Jerde and other scientists from Notre Dame, The Nature Conservancy and Central Michigan University during two years of searching the Great Lakes basin for Asian carp.
In that spirit, The Nature Conservancy has agreed to buy nearly 200, 000 acres of land along the St John river that was recently put up for sale by International Paper.
Environmental experts from The Nature Conservancy are trying to teach soy farmers in Santarem to be good stewards of the land.
The Nature Conservancy is also encouraging vineyard owners to work together to coordinate water demand and supply.
His organization often collaborates with other groups, including the NOAA and the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit conservation group.
It later fell into decline and was taken over by the agency's predecessor, the Nature Conservancy, in 1957.
Walker, a correspondent for Outside magazine, is leading a partnership between The Nature Conservancy and Summit Series to raise that money.
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The Nature Conservancy is examining potential effects from gas drilling and wind turbines on an eight-state region from New York to Tennessee.
The house, still full of Hemingway memorabilia, is owned by The Nature Conservancy, which is considering making it available for tours and literary events.
To that end, Alcoa is working with three non-profits, American Forests, Greening Australia and the Nature Conservancy, which has a large reforestation project in Brazil.
"It has a very wild feel to it, " said DEC Commissioner Joe Martens, a whitewater veteran who canoed rapids easily with the Nature Conservancy's Mike Carr.
In November 2006 Daily launched the Natural Capital Project with others from Stanford, the University of Minnesota, the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy.
At the present rate of destruction, by the year 2050, a breathtaking 70 percent of the world's reefs will have disappeared, according to the Nature Conservancy.
For organisations such as the Nature Conservancy, which protects ecologically sensitive spots by buying them or persuading others to set them aside, businesses are a big source of income.
"We've been exploring using culverts as a way to alleviate flooding and protect human safety, as well as helping fish and wildlife, " said Connie Prickett of the Adirondack chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
Planting native shrubs in the pipeline pathways, which need to remain treeless to avoid root damage to pipes and to give maintenance crews access, would be better than just grass, the Nature Conservancy noted.
Planting native shrubs in clear-cut areas, which need to remain treeless to avoid root damage to underground pipes and to give maintenance crews access, would be better than just grass, the Nature Conservancy noted.
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