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Headline	Author	Published	Section
This Is the Den, and the Bathroom Is Behind That Tree Stressed by housing slump, developers sell land to conservationists		09 May 2008	News
Posted at 9:31 AM on 09 May 2008 Looking for a bright side to the real-estate crunch? Look no further: Some developers, financially stressed by the housing slump, are selling land to folks who want to conserve it. It's a win-win situation: developers aren't stuck building expensive real estate that no one wants to buy, and conservation groups like the Trust for Public Land a ...
Topics: habitat protection, Nature Conservancy, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Unhappy Campers Fewer folks are regularly getting out in nature, says study		05 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 11:44 AM on 05 Feb 2008 Kids -- and adults -- these days are "videophiliacs" who prefer their nature through the TV screen rather than personally experienced, says a new study estimating that U.S. folks' participation in outdoor recreation has dropped as much as 25 percent over the past 20 years. Researchers looked at four metrics: visitation to public lands, number of fishing and hunting licenses iss ...
Topics: green living, health, Nature Conservancy, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Flooded With Gratitude Green group and Chinese dam owners will work together to address eco-impact		29 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:01 PM on 29 Jan 2008 The company that owns China's problem-stricken Three Gorges Dam is expected to sign a pact with The Nature Conservancy to conduct a feasibility study on flood risk and floodplain management within the Three Gorges Dam reservoir. The Three Gorges Dam Company and the green group have also agreed to cooperate on researching eco-minded management of four more dams that ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, hydropower, Nature Conservancy, news (all these topics)

McCormick and Quits President of Nature Conservancy resigns		02 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:41 PM on 02 Oct 2007 The subhead doth not mislead you: The president of the Nature Conservancy, Steven McCormick, has abruptly resigned. From the Archives Happy Decouple. States adopt decoupling plans to encourage energy efficiency. All's Fair and We Love More. Fair-trade market boosted by consumer demand. The Thin Bluefin Line. Bluefin tuna population in Mediterranean declining, sushi blamed. News ...
Topics: Nature Conservancy, news (all these topics)

Tune In to Morro Enviros buy out trawlers in California bay		08 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Tune In to Morro Enviros buy out trawlers in California bay Attempting to conserve rapidly vanishing bottom-dwelling fish stocks off the central California coast, Environmental Defense and The Nature Conservancy have teamed with bottom-trawling fishers to create three "no-trawl zones" covering a total of nearly 6,000 square miles. In exchange for their endorsement, t ...
Topics: California, Environmental Defense Fund, marine life, Nature Conservancy, news (all these topics)

Range of Notion Grass banks aim to protect prairies and help ranchers		11 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Range of Notion Grass banks aim to protect prairies and help ranchers Hoping to preserve both the prairie and the livelihoods of ranchers, green groups like The Nature Conservancy have created "grass banks" by buying up land and allowing ranchers to graze there for cheap. In exchange, ranchers agree to conserve habitat on their own land for ferrets, curlews, and other species. The New Mexico- ...
Topics: land stewardship, Nature Conservancy, news, ranching (all these topics)

Hank Shot Bush's pick to head Treasury Department is conservationist as well as financier	Amanda Griscom Little	01 Jun 2006	Muckraker
Many green leaders joined the Washington establishment and Big Business this week in applauding President Bush's nomination of Henry "Hank" Paulson -- Wall Street titan and heavyweight conservationist -- to replace outgoing Treasury Secretary John Snow and spearhead the administration's economic policy making. But while Paulson proved popular in many circles, a ...
Topics: Muckraker, Nature Conservancy, politics (all these topics)

Southern Land Do Need You Around, Anyhow Big conservation deal will protect 218,000 acres of forest in the South		30 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Southern Land Do Need You Around, Anyhow Big conservation deal will protect 218,000 acres of forest in the South Conservationists are celebrating the biggest sale of private land for preservation in the South's history. The Nature Conservancy and the Conservation Fund have put up a combined $300 million for 218,000 acres of forestland owned by International Paper in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisian ...
Topics: Nature Conservancy, news, South, wilderness (all these topics)

Acres and Pains Senate panel recommends tighter regulation of land conservancies		09 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Acres and Pains Senate panel recommends tighter regulation of land conservancies A two-year investigation by the Senate Finance Committee may lead to big changes in federal regulation of America's land conservancies. The panel's report recommends that the IRS "consider revoking the tax-exempt status of a conservation organization that regularly and continuously fails to monitor and enforce conservation easements&q ...
Topics: Nature Conservancy, news, wilderness (all these topics)

Silence Is Beholden Are corporations hog-tying conservation groups in CAFTA fight?	Liza Grandia, et al	02 Jun 2005	Soapbox
Macaws and effect in Central America. A year ago, President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Since then, the controversial plan has inspired protests across the U.S. and in Central America. And while past trade agreements have been ratified by Congress in less than two months, the Bush administration has delayed the vote on CAFTA multiple times, unable to ra ...
Topics: business, Central America, Conservation International, environmental justice, globalization, Nature Conservancy, politics, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Nature Conservancy Goes Back to Nature		16 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Nature Conservancy Goes Back to Nature The Nature Conservancy, which was sent reeling last month after a series of Washington Post articles exposed embarrassing problems and questionable practices within the organization, has announced a number of policy reforms decided upon in a board meeting last week. TNC, the world's wealthiest environmental group, will stop drilling for oil on land it controls, m ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Nature Conservancy, United States (all these topics)

Con-servancy?		05 May 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: Nature Conservancy Con-servancy? The Nature Conservancy, based in Arlington, Va., has become the world's wealthiest environmental group, with assets of $3 billion, but according to an extensive investigative series by the Washington Post, that money is not all going to the environmental good. The conservancy is known for purchasing and protecting ecologically valuable land, using donations from both individuals and corporations. But in recent years, the group has logged forestla ...
Topics: Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

We'll Si		10 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
We'll Si Once upon a time, the Dominican Republic's Parque Nacional del Este was the poster child for Parks in Peril, a joint program of the Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Agency for International Development to support land-preservation efforts in the Caribbean and Latin America. Today, though, the park has become a symbol of the difficulties such efforts have encountered in keeping development and ...
Topics: Dominican Republic, national parks, Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

Joy to the World		11 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
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Topics: Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

Joy to the World A conservation pioneer from Belize joins forces with the Nature Conservancy	Deborah Knight	11 Mar 2003	Main Dish
Joy Grant was born in a house with no indoor plumbing in the tiny Central American country of Belize. That was 52 years ago. Last year, she accepted one of the top positions at the U.S.-based Nature Conservancy. For both parties, the marriage is a calculated gamble. Joy, oh, Joy. Photo: Deborah Knight. I spent a morning with Grant recently in Belize City. Her voice has a thr ...
Topics: Belize, Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

Kodak Moments		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Kodak Moments Environmentalists have many tools for looking after Momma Earth -- and now, in remote villages in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, one of them is a Kodak camera. Through a project designed and funded by the Nature Conservancy, about 100 people in the region have been given cameras and training to help them take photos documenting how three minority groups -- Naxi, Yi, and Tibetan -- relat ...
Topics: Asia, China, logging, Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

Tally Ho!		05 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Tally Ho! Prodded by donors, the Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and other groups are working to create accounting standards (both financial and biological) to measure the success of conservation projects. "There's no industry standard, no Dow Jones," said M. A. Sanjayan, a scientist who is leading the conservancy effort. Some $120 billion is spent each year in the United States on protecting ecosy ...
Topics: business, Nature Conservancy, wildlife (all these topics)

Northern Light		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Northern Light In a classic example of strange bedfellows, the Nature Conservancy has teamed up with Great Northern Paper, a pulp and paper mill company, to protect thousands of acres of wilderness in Maine -- and over a thousand jobs for company employees. The conservancy, whose Maine chapter was founded by legendary environmentalist Rachel Carson, provided t ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, land stewardship, Maine, Nature Conservancy, wilderness (all these topics)

Nature Not Nurturing?		20 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: Nature Conservancy Nature Not Nurturing? The Nature Conservancy, one of the world's wealthiest environmental organizations, is drawing fire from other enviros for venturing into particularly unlikely territory: oil refining. In 1995, Mobil Oil gave the Conservancy a 2,263-acre Texas oil field that is one of the world's last-known breeding grounds for the highly endangered Attwater's prairie chicken. Rather than shutting off the petroleum spigots, the conservancy drilled new natu ...
Topics: Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

Sur Prize		10 May 2002	Daily Grist
Sur Prize Almost 10,000 acres of California's Big Sur, encompassing mountains, old-growth redwood forests, and dramatic vistas on the coast, will be protected in perpetuity thanks to a land purchase sealed yesterday by the Nature Conservancy and the Big Sur Land Trust. The land connects 13 wilderness areas and parks, and was the missing link in a 70-mile-long wildlife corridor for mountain lions, bobcats, a ...
Topics: California, land stewardship, Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

Dune Messiah		11 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Dune Messiah It's a rare moment when ranchers and environmentalists see eye-to-eye -- and yet a collaboration between the two parties is leading to the creation of the nation's 57th national park. The unlikely relationship began when enviros and ranchers realized they had something in common: a need to protect the water resources in Colorado's San Luis Valley. Although it receives very little ...
Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, national parks, Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

Live Tree or Die		22 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Live Tree or Die In what will be one of the largest nonprofit land purchases in New England history, the federal and New Hampshire governments, the Trust for Public Land, and the Nature Conservancy are poised to buy 171,500 acres of land along the New Hampshire-Canada border from the International ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, land stewardship, logging, Nature Conservancy, New England, New Hampshire, Northeast, toxics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Scrambled Egg Labels		27 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Scrambled Egg Labels With few federal rules in place, many eco-labels and related markers placed on food in the U.S. are meaningless or confusing, says Consumers Union. For example, because the U.S. Agriculture Department doesn't have standards for free-range eggs, no one checks up on whether the chickens producing such eggs really have the run of the farm. Another example: Co ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

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