BP

BP LogoThrough its partnership with BP the Conservancy has been able to advance its conservation objectives in a number of significant projects. Since 1978, BP (including BP America, Amoco, BP Amoco, and Arco) has contributed $8 million to The Nature Conservancy. Examples of BP support of the Conservancy include:

  • helping preserve habitat of the Channel Islands kit fox (California)
  • building capacity for public and private conservation (Indonesia)
  • TNC and BP are participants in the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) - aimed at producing design and operating standards for bio-sequestration projects.
  • BP has supported field-testing CCBA standards at the Noel Kempff climate action project (Bolivia)
  • donating ecologically significant land within a priority conservation area (Virginia)
  • researching climate impacts on ecological systems (Alaska). 
  • The Conservancy and BP are participants the Energy and Biodiversity Initiative (EBI) – an alliance that has created recommended operating practices for accessing and working in sensitive areas.  This initiative is now being promoted by the main petroleum industry associations.

BP has provided $1 million to support building capacity for public and private conservation in Indonesia. Through this support, the Conservancy joined with nine Indonesian and international organizations to establish the Conservation Training & Resource Center (CTRC). The Center's mission is to build capacity for conservation in Indonesia by developing a conservation curriculum and providing training including course materials for natural resource managers as well as broader audiences such as conservation organizations, university teachers and students and government officials.

In addition, the Conservancy has benefited from the commitment of BP staff as advisors to our International Leadership Council and as volunteer chapter trustees.