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Earth Month 2025

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WE'RE ON IT, TOGETHER This Earth Month and Earth Day, all actions are meaningful and momentous. © Erika Nortemann/TNC, Dale Sarver, Ph.D, Peter Coskun

We’re on It, Together.

There’s just this one planet of ours, and it’s on all of us to safeguard a future with a livable climate, healthy communities and thriving nature—during Earth Month, on Earth Day and every day. Let’s put our heads, hands and hearts together and take action to preserve and protect the natural world for generations to come.

Our Thriving Planet, Our Beating Hearts (3:18) The stakes for our planet have never been higher. Neither has our ambition.

4 Ways You Can Act Right Now

Every Earth Month and Earth Day action is meaningful and momentous. Here are four things you can do.

Live More Sustainably

Download our free Earth Day Guide and get ideas on more big and small actions that can lead to a better tomorrow for our planet.

Inspire Our Youth

Download our free kid-friendly Earth Day Activity Guide and help tomorrow’s conservationists develop a lasting concern for the health of the natural world.

Sign a Nature Pledge

This Earth Month and Earth Day, use your voice to speak up for nature by contacting your elected officials and pledging to take a stand on behalf of challenges to our planet’s future.

Double Your Donation

Give today to The Nature Conservancy in celebration of Earth Month and Earth Day—and see if your employer will match your generous gift in support of our conservation work.

Find a TNC Preserve Near You.

Spend time this Earth Month and Earth Day connecting with nature at one of the places we protect.

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    Together, We Find a Way.

    On Earth Day, and every day, The Nature Conservancy coordinates individual, local, national and global conservation work to bring about significant, lasting change for our planet—and for us. Here are just a few of our many stories of progress in collaboration with communities of all kinds.

    Explore Stories of Progress for Our Planet.

    Your Support Saved These Special Lands in 2024

    This Earth Month and every month, your actions can help The Nature Conservancy safeguard important lands and waters across the U.S. See some big wins from 2024.

    How the U.S. Farm Bill Saved the Hatcher Family Ranch

    Severe drought left Treg Hatcher on the verge of selling his family's cattle ranch in Kansas. See how funding from the Farm Bill's EQIP program helped turn it all around. 

    The Power of Community Leadership on the Great Bear Sea

    A historic agreement creates long-term protection for the Great Bear Sea, an ecosystem home to whales, salmon, kelp and bears off Canada's British Columbia. The deal funds First Nation stewardship.

    Powering Change in the Appalachian Mountains

    The Appalachians have long been known for coal. But a quiet shift is taking place as many Kentuckians, like Bobby Stallard, are redefining their relationship with energy by turning to solar power. See what’s making this possible

    How a New National Park Was Born in Colombia

    Despite being one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, Orinoquia is also one of the least protected, at a high risk of conversion and suffering the effects of climate change. Learn about the incredible new Manacacias National Park—a biodiversity corridor essential to life.

    Learn How Policy Makes Conservation Possible.

    Discover the importance of advocating on behalf of nature and the vital role of public policy in shaping the natural world.

    Policy Makes Conservation Possible (2:14) You only need to look around to see how policy shapes the natural world you depend on for, well, everything.

    The Nature Conservancy’s Goals for 2030

    Our planet faces the interconnected crises of rapid climate change and biodiversity loss. We have years, not decades, to address these existential threats.

    The science is clear: We must act now to halt catastrophic climate change and biodiversity loss. What we do between now and 2030 will determine whether we slow warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius—the level scientists agree will avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

    Our actions will also determine whether we conserve enough land, fresh water and ocean to slow the rapid acceleration of species loss. If we succeed, we will safeguard people from the disastrous effects of these crises.

    So much can occur in a single lifetime. Three quarters of the carbon dioxide emissions driven by humans have occurred since 1950. We have seen a nearly 70% average decline of birds, amphibians, mammals, fish and reptiles since just 1970.

    There is no time for delay.

    • Reduced Climate Harm for a Livable World

      With partners, we will avoid or remove 3 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually—the same as taking 650 million cars off the road every year.

    • Resilient Ecosystems for Flourishing Communities

      We will help 100 million people at severe risk of climate-related emergencies such as floods, fires and drought.

    • Sustainable Solutions for a Thriving Ocean

      We will conserve nearly 10 billion acres (4 billion hectares) of ocean—more than 10% of the world’s ocean area.

    • Healthy Lands for a Healthier Planet

      We will conserve 1.6 billion acres (650 million hectares) of land, such as forests and grasslands—an area twice the size of India.

    • Conserved Rivers, Lakes and Wetlands for Flourishing Freshwater Systems

      We will conserve more than 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) of river systems and 74 million acres (30 million hectares) of lakes and wetlands—enough river length alone to stretch across the globe 25 times.

    • Thriving Communities Stewarding Global Ecosystems

      We are supporting the leadership of 45 million people from local and Indigenous communities whose well-being and livelihoods depend on healthy ocean, fresh water and lands.

    Across Aisles. Across Sectors. Across Borders.

    Rooted in decades of on-the-ground experience, we maximize our ability to affect change by bringing together real-world solutions, policy expertise, sustainable financing and collaborative partnerships.

    • With a grounding in rigorous science, we take innovative conservation approaches from idea to impact, scaling up from the local to the global level in an effort to achieve system change. Learn more.

    • We use a practical, nonpartisan approach to show policymakers across the political spectrum how nature can provide effective solutions to major challenges like climate change and species loss. Learn more.

    • Lasting conservation must actively involve the people linked to the natural systems we seek to protect. Their voices must be at the center of what we do. We’re continually learning and growing in how we show up as an authentic, ethical partner. Learn more.

    • By catalyzing more investment in nature’s services, we can unlock new sources of capital that allow us to scale up our work far beyond what traditional funding can do alone. Learn more.

    • The private sector has a significant impact on our climate and our natural resources. That’s why we’re applying our science and expertise to help businesses make better decisions for our planet, and for us. Learn more.

    • We must work smarter to achieve our conservation goals. New technologies and innovative collaborations allow us to leverage the power of disruption to conserve faster. Learn more.

    • We listen to and collaborate with young nature lovers, future scientists and emerging trailblazers who are coming of age and demanding a different path forward. Learn more.

    More ways you can act today.

    Empower Young Leaders with Our Climate Action Toolkit

    Young leaders can take direct action on the climate crisis. The Youth Climate Action Toolkit provides students with strategies and resources to advance local climate action.

    Create a Pollinator Paradise 

    Put your DIY skills to use with a simple project for your home, school, workplace or neighborhood. A pollinator garden will attract birds, bees and all sorts of biodiversity.

    Discover 8 Ways to Reduce Waste

    See how you can take small eco-friendly actions that can lead to large positive changes for the planet.