The Nature Conservancy
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| founding | 1951 |
| Seat | Arlington , Virginia , USA ( ⊙ ) |
| main emphasis | Environment and nature protection |
| method | Conservation by design |
| Action space | worldwide |
| Managing directors | Mark R. Tercek (CEO) |
| sales | $ 1,006,241,963 (2017) |
| Employees | 3000 |
| Members | > 1 million |
| Website | www.nature.org |
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a non-profit conservation organization based in the United States . The organization is based in Arlington , Virginia .
The Nature Conservancy deals with the protection of plants, animals and biocenoses that are representative of the diversity of life on earth ( biodiversity ), as well as the protection of their habitats on land and in the water.
The organization was founded in 1951. The forerunner was the Ecologists' Union , founded in 1946 , which in turn emerged from the 1917 Committee for the Preservation of Natural Conditions , a group of advocates of active environmental protection under the leadership of Victor Shelford within the Ecological Society of America, founded in 1915 .
In 1987 TNC received one of the first Global 500 Awards from UNEP .
The Nature Conservancy has over a million members since 1999 and is active in not only all 50 US states but also in over 30 countries worldwide. TNC has already placed more than 69,000 km² areas under protection in the USA, and over 473,000 km² worldwide (as of 2007). It owns, for example, nature reserves such as the Niobrara Valley Preserve . Annual sales in 2006 were $ 1.02 billion. Together with the Sierra Club and Conservation International , TNC is one of the three largest conservation organizations in the USA.
The former head of the investment bank Goldman Sachs (1999 to 2006) and later Treasury Secretary of the United States (2006 to 2008) in the cabinet of George W. Bush, Henry M. Paulson, Jr. , is a long-time member of TNC and was temporarily chairman. Steven J. McCormick was chairman of the organization from 2001 to 2008. Since then, it has been led by Mark R. Tercek, who was also a former manager at Goldman Sachs.
After the Deepwater Horizon disaster in May 2010, TNC came under fire for its longstanding cooperation with the responsible energy company, BP .
In February 2018, The Nature Conservancy took over US $ 21.6 million of the Seychelles national debt . This was done as part of a " debt-for-nature-swap " trade, in which the Seychelles undertook to place large areas of the sea under nature protection.
Protection status system
The Nature Conservancy has introduced its own protection status system for species . In this system, G denotes global, N national and S subregional, e.g. B. the states of the USA , classifications. These letters are followed by:
- X - assumed to be extinct (could not be found even in extensive searches)
- H - probably extinct (or h for historical sightings with some hope of re-sighting)
- 1 - Critically Endangered (typically 5 or fewer sightings or fewer than 1000 representatives)
- 2 - endangered (typically 6 to 20 sightings or 1000 to 3000 representatives)
- 3 - Vulnerable (rare; typically 21 to 1000 sightings or 3000 to 10000 individuals)
- R or? - National or regional reports, but local status not available. Together with G1 to G3: local status indefinite.
- 4 - Apparently certain (uncommon but not uncommon; concerns for the future, typically over 100 sightings and 10,000 specimens)
- 5 - safe (common, high number, widespread)
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Joe Stephens: Nature Conservancy Faces Potential Backlash From Ties with BP. Washington Post, May 23, 2010
- ↑ Seychelles. The Nature Conservancy, accessed February 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated September 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
