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The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

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Contact detailsThe Nature Conservancy
4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100
Arlington, VA 22203-1606
USA
Phone: +1 (703) 841 5300
E-mail: comment@tnc.org
Type of organisationConservation organisation
Organisation's interestConservation
LocationUnited States of America
Learning Group member?Yes

Description
The Nature Conservancy’s mission is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. The Nature Conservancy has developed a strategic, science-based planning process, which helps to identify the highest-priority places that, if conserved, promise to ensure biodiversity over the long term. One of TNC’s value is “Respect for People, Communities, and Cultures” as TNC recognizes that enduring conservation success depends on the active involvement of people and partners whose lives and livelihoods are linked to the natural systems we seek to conserve. The nature Conservancy works in more than 30 countries.

Projects
1. Wakatobi National Park (Indonesia): Fishers Community of Tomia Island established a group called Komunto to collaboratively develop the fisher community’s resources and sustainably manage marine resources.

2. The Arnavon Community Marine Conservation Area (Solomon Islands). The Nature Conservancy supports this Community Marine Conservation Area for the conservation of biological resources and sustainable livelihood approaches for the communities.

3. Native Lands in the Amazon (South America: Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela). TNC and partners in the Native Lands in the Amazon program is working with indigenous organizations, training indigenous groups in satellite mapping and land management. This program is strengthening indigenous technical, financial and administrative capacity to protect huge swaths of land, and supporting their efforts to influence the government laws and programs that can also determine their future.

4. Forest Management Project, Adelberts, Madang Province. (Papua New Guinea). The key focus of this Project, implemented by TNC and partners, is to facilitate sustainably best practices of forest management with local resource owners through development of land use plans and management plans.

5. Indigenous Ecotourism Network, promoted by the Amistad Project (Costa Rica). Seventeen community-based groups from the Atlantic sector of the site (Talamanca Bribri Indigenous territory) have organized themselves through a formal structure – The Indigenous Ecotourism Network. They have developed their own decision-making mechanisms, rules and procedures, and have reached an agreement regarding the type of tourism activities to be promoted in their indigenous territory. TNC supports this network which consolidated cultural and nature tourism as an alternative income-generating activity for indigenous communities living in the buffer zone area of the park.

6. The Amazon Indigenous Training Center (Brazil). TNC supports an Indigenous Training Center in the Brazilian amazon region equipping the next generation of indigenous leaders with the tools and expertise to lead their communities into a more secure future, making connections with other indigenous organizations across the hemisphere facing the same problems and building regional networks.

7. Grasslands of the Mongolian Steppe and Tibetan Plateau (Mongolia and China). TNC supports a program to protect grasslands and savannah at a scale large enough to sustain the wildlife and the livelihoods of nomadic people who live there. It works with those nomadic people and other stakeholders promoting collaborative conservation planning.

8. Partnerships in Micronesia (Republic of Palau and Federated States of Micronesia). TNC developed a program that builds and strengthens local conservation leadership and promotes local institutional capacity-building so that local leaders and institutions can manage their own resources in culturally appropriate ways.

9. Upper Yangtze River Basin Conservation (China). TNC works with partners to protect and restore forests that are most likely to reduce flood damages and mudslides. The benefits to local communities includes: food, medicine and freshwater, traditional building materials, fuel wood, erosion control, flood regulation, carbon storage.

10. “Peoples Parks” in the Arilands of Namibia. (Namibia). The Nature Conservancy is supporting the Namibia Government and other partners in creating and managing a “Peoples Parks” linking Skeleton coast and Etosha National Parks. This effort builds on a successful community-based natural resource management program in the Kunene to form one of the world’s largest protected areas, preserving critical wildlife corridors, maintaining community’s sustainable use of natural resources, and offering a base for sustainable ecotourism ventures.

Geographic coverage
Americas
Asia
Africa
Oceania

People
Luis Pabon
E-mail: lpabon@tnc.org
Lea M. Scherl
E-mail: lscherl@tnc.org

Web URL
http://nature.org/

 

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