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DURABLE CONSERVATION:
Our Vision for the Future
We stand today on a momentous threshold.
Behind us lies a century of awakening conservation sensibility, and a half-century of conservation action on the part of The Nature Conservancy. Before us, built on this foundation, lies the opportunity to protect entire ecological systems, thereby ensuring the survival of their native species and landscapes. Yet, daily the opportunity narrows, as population growth, sprawl and other factors erode and degrade the natural world around us.
Today, we at The Nature Conservancy stand together with many others in a mutual commitment to protect ecological systems and natural diversity for the long term, and in a way that allows both people and nature to thrive. Ours is a vision of durable conservation, and at a scale that matters.
The task may seem daunting—protecting ecosystems along the lengths of rivers, for instance, or enough nesting habitat in several countries for wide-ranging sea turtles. But we at the Conservancy have a plan for durable conservation. It directs us to systematically identify the array of places around the globe that embrace the full spectrum of the Earth’s natural diversity; to develop the most effective strategies to achieve tangible, lasting results at those places; and to work collaboratively with a host of partners to catalyze those strategies and spark the actions of many others on behalf of the natural world.
Our plan beckons us all to get involved.
I’m filled with the abiding conviction that we can leave no more enduring and important legacy than the preservation of our natural world. For in the end, this generation will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.
Please join with us at The Nature Conservancy—to share our vision of durable conservation, and to work alongside us to achieve it.
Steven J. McCormick
President and CEO
