New: Charitable IRA Rollover

If you are 70½ or older, temporary legislation allows you to make cash gifts totaling up to $100,000 per year from your traditional or Roth IRA to qualified charities without incurring income tax on the withdrawal.

Learn more on this unique way to give!

Quinebaug Highlands

This year, our members and friends in Connecticut helped us reach a historic milestone: the protection of 50,000 acres of forests, rivers and coastline across Connecticut. Hear how landowners helped make it happen.

Slideshow

Much like a car with an EZ-Pass, fish tagged with sensors are sending signals to antennas and helping Conservancy scientists learn about their movements on the Connecticut River.

 

Climate Change

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative - The Nature Conservancy's climate change manager, Sarah Murdock, shares her thoughts on RGGI and its role in fighting climate change.

What's New

Jon Kachmar leads a pioneering three-state program to protect Long Island Sound.

Nature.org caught up with Jon to discuss the protecting an ecological wonder nestled within one of the East Coast’s most highly developed regions.

 

Going Green 12 Days a Year

Support for Open Space

Connecticut's shore and forest parks need our ongoing support or they could be lost forever. Click here to read a compelling  Nature Conservancy editorial in the Hartford Courant.