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How We Work: Protection, Science Stewardship

 

Our Strategic Plan of Conservation Activities

On June 1, 2007, the Indiana Chapter adopted a plan that will increase the level of effective conservation of sites identified as important to the success of our mission. The ultimate goal - to acquire 20,000 acres of land and effectively conserve an additional 200,000 acres by 2012.

Treating Loosestrife


Our Mission

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.

Our Approach

The Nature Conservancy of Indiana's protection, science and stewardship offices are working year round to ensure that priority sights are preserved and protected. To help us identify the highest priority places - or the natural areas that, if conserved, promise to ensure biodiversity over the long term - we have developed a strategic, science-based planning process, called Conservation by Design.

In other words, Conservation by Design allows us to achieve meaningful, lasting conservation results within our priority conservation initiatives - all which address the principal threats to conservation at the sites where we work.

What is Stewardship?

Stewardship is the management of preserve lands to assure that those lands forever meet our mission of preserving the plants and animals that represent diversity of life of earth.

The goal for our stewards is to sustain the existing diversity of the species and natural processes that shape a landscape, or to restore them where they have been removed.

Visit our Stewardship page to learn more about our work out in the field.

What We're Doing in Reducing Our Carbon Footprint

The Nature Conservancy of Indiana's protection, science and stewardship offices are working year round to ensure that the biodiversity in our priority sites are preserved and protected. As part of a worldwide, nonprofit organization, we also play a role in working towards global goals such as reducing our impact on climate change.

In May 2007, The Nature Conservancy announced it's affiliation with the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP, a highly influential alliance of more than two dozen companies and environmental conservation organizations calling for substantial reductions in U.S. greenhouse gases.

The Nature Conservancy has joined USCAP to ensure that a strong policy framework is developed to address the challenge of controlling climate change. In spirit of our mission, we plan to highlight the need to reduce emissions through the protection and restoration of forests and grasslands, which hold and sequester vast amounts or carbon, and on strategies to help ecosystems and wildlife adapt to an already changing planet.

For more information on what The Nature Conservancy is doing concerning climate control and global warming, visit our Climate Change Initiative page. If you'd like to learn how you can make a difference, check out some easy ways you can reduce your carbon footprint.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Christopher Jordan (Pennywort Cliffs); Photo © The Nature Conservancy (treating loosestrife).