Cain serving as the first President. At that time, the organization had two part-time staff and a total membership of TNC staff located in the United States and around the world totals more than 3, The organization currently owns nearly two million acres of land and holds more than three million acres in conservation easements throughout the U. Membership in the organization now numbers more than one million.
Between and , the Western History and Genealogy Department acquired approximately linear feet of materials from the organization and former employees. After more than five years of inventorying, arrangement and description work performed by Western History and Genealogy Department archivists, these records now have an online finding aid and are available to researchers.
The Nature Conservancy Records CONS were collected in order to complement other conservation-related holdings both manuscript collections and publications that are part of the Conservation Collection , which was established in by author and conservationist, Arthur H.
The bulk of the records are made up of office files generated by former staff members of the organization and include correspondence, financial records, maps, marketing materials, memos, meeting minutes, newsletters, posters, presentations, publications, reports, research and video recordings, as well as some photographs and color slides. Materials date from TNC's founding in until approximately A rope technician works to remove invasive pine trees from the greater Cape Town region in South Africa.
TNC works with local organizations to support these water-saving efforts. Our mission is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. To achieve this, we must boldly address the biodiversity and climate crises over the next decade. By maximizing our ability to affect change between now and , we can shape a brighter future for people and our planet.
By the Numbers. Stand With Us Our mission demands that we do everything in our power to create a world where people and nature can thrive. Meet Our People. We All Have a Stake in a Better Future 7 decades of conservation experience have taught us we can accomplish more for nature when we bring together people and organizations across borders, sectors and political aisles.
Our Science. Our History. An Organization You Can Trust As a leading global charity, we put every dollar donated to work efficiently and effectively to make the greatest impact possible for conservation. Our Accountability Rating. The Nature Conservancy is a member of the U. Climate Action Network US-CAN , an environmental protest organization comprised of dozens of left-of-center member organizations, and noted for its demonstrations and campaigns against traditional energy production.
The Nature Conservancy is essentially proposing the creation of carbon taxes that will either incentivize Americans to adopt natural climate solutions or force them to pay taxes to fund the same programs. Natural climate solutions are a collection of policies mostly aimed at using and enhancing the natural carbon-dioxide consumption of forests and other vegetation.
By adding more protected forestlands through additional conservation easements, planting more trees, improving agricultural practices and implementing its other natural carbon-consuming proposals the Nature Conservancy projects the United States could remove 21 percent of the carbon Americans produce from the atmosphere, or the equivalent of what is produced by every domestic vehicle.
In October the Nature Conservancy and the University of Minnesota released a report proposing how humanity could create sufficient low-carbon energy to serve growing populations and economies.
Consistent with the agenda of many left-of-center environmental advocacy organizations, the report proposes forcing a dramatic decrease in the use of fossil fuels to just 13 percent from 76 percent of worldwide energy consumption by The Nature Conservancy proposes meeting some of this goal with a massive increase in the use of nuclear power a zero-carbon energy source which would grow from less than 7.
In practice, persons and institutions not generally associated with left-leaning environmental organizations have a public relationship with the Nature Conservancy. Former Republican U. Former Dow Chemical Co. Rogers is a former board member for the Nature Conservancy.
Left-of-center activists and environmental advocacy organizations have criticized the Nature Conservancy directly and the institutions it is associated with. The Nature Conservancy had persuaded the energy company to donate a 2,acre parcel of Texas prairie land, with the objective of preserving the habitat of an endangered bird.
As part of the deal, Mobil was permitted to retain the right to drill for oil and gas on the land presumably the only non-natural development that would be permitted, with the property otherwise forever protected in its natural state.
In late the Nature Conservancy was informed it would be the subject of an IRS audit that a tax law expert interviewed by the Washington Post characterized as extraordinarily broad in scope and invasive for a charitable organization.
The IRS investigation occurred after a series of reports by the newspaper earlier that year revealed controversial business practices by the Nature Conservancy. McCormick, the then-president of TNC.
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