2012 Annual Report - The Nature Conservancy

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The Conservancy’s Gala Davaa (left) with Otgonbaatar Tsog, a Mongolian herder. 2 The Nature Conservancy I nature.org
THE YEAR IN CONSERVATION Protecting and Restoring Nature CONSERVING THE CROWN OF THE CONTINENT The Conservancy’s Montana Chapter and Canada Program worked in partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada to halt the threat of mining in the pristine lands that border the North Fork of the Flathead River. The partnership enabled the two countries to add another 389,000 protected acres to the magnificent Crown of the Continent. NEW CHILEAN NATIONAL PARK The Conservancy donated 24,000 acres of native forest of its Valdivian Coastal Reserve in southern Chile for the creation of the Alerce Coastal National Park, which protects 61,000 acres of some of the world’s last temperate rainforests, including alerce trees thousands of years old. PROTECTED PANTHER PATHWAY The Conservancy orchestrated a complicated land transaction in Florida, raised $2 million toward the purchase and brought federal and state partners together to acquire 1,278 acres critical to the future of the endangered Florida panther. MISSOURI PRAIRIE RESTORATIONS American bison set foot on Dunn Ranch Prairie for the first time since the 1840s, and plans are in place to restore Topeka shiner to prairie streams. At Wah’Kon-Tah Prairie, the American burying beetle became the first federally endangered species to be reintroduced in Missouri, and 62 prairie chickens were released to reestablish the critically endangered bird. FEDERAL FOREST PROGRAM The Conservancy led the charge for full support of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, one of the few Forest Service programs to receive increased investment in the fiscal 2012 budget. Part of it was due to a comprehensive report we produced late last year. MONGOLIAN GRASSLAND RESERVES Mongolia’s parliament announced more than 3,700,000 acres of new national protected lands. Nearly a quarter of these are grassland reserves identified as ecologically important in a scientific assessment conducted by the Conservancy. WHOOPING CRANE PROPERTIES Habitat for rare whooping cranes was protected when the Conservancy worked with partners and private landowners to protect three critical properties on the Texas Gulf Coast where the iconic birds spend their winters. LARGEST AUSTRALIAN PROTECTED AREA The Conservancy worked with Indigenous Traditional Owners, the Central Land Council and the national government to support the declaration of the largest protected area on Australian land. The Southern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area, located in the Northern Territory, spans an astounding 25 million acres. MOOSEHEAD LAKE FOREST EASEMENT A partnership among the Conservancy, Plum Creek and the Forest Society of Maine secured a 363,000-acre easement—the second largest in U.S. history—in Maine’s Moosehead Lake region, filling a missing piece that connects more than 2 million acres from the St. John River headwaters to Mount Katahdin. GREAT LAKES RESTORATIONS Three states are working together with farmers to restore the western Lake Erie basin to reduce runoff into critical aquatic systems. And a Conservancy-led project demonstrating sustainable forestry in Michigan’s Two Hearted River watershed is helping to reboot the forest’s natural diversity while providing much-needed income to the local economy. Grassland at the Conservancy’s Dunn Ranch in northern Missouri. Nature Matters I The Nature Conservancy 3
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Page 13 and 14: CTS The air we breathe is shared wi
Page 15 and 16: NATURE PROTECTS OUR INFRASTRUCTURE
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Page 21 and 22: NATURE NOURISHES OUR DREAMS Marisa
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Page 25 and 26: NATURE NOURISHES COMMUNITIES Thomas
Page 27 and 28: ENS A healthy natural world and hea
Page 29 and 30: NATURE STRENGTHENS OUR FUTURE Susan
Page 31 and 32: NATURE STRENGTHENS OUR HEALTH 51% o
Page 33 and 34: RESas a Nature provides many tangib
Page 35 and 36: NATURE INSPIRES ART Andrei Kushnir
Page 37 and 38: NATURE INSPIRES ACTION Margaret Lou
Page 39 and 40: WERS Whether cooking our food, heat
Page 41 and 42: NATURE EMPOWERS OUR CITIES Zhao Yim
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Page 45 and 46: ES Water is life. That’s an adage
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Page 51 and 52: Preston Jimmerson Camilla, Georgia
Page 53 and 54: Financial Summary For the fiscal ye
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