The Nature Conservancy. Protecting nature. Preserving life.™

In 2007, the Conservancy in Arizona launched Nature Matters, a bold plan to protect Arizona’s most important lands and waters for both people and nature.

The plan is built around four key strategies to:

• Secure water for our future
• Restore the health of our land
• Grow in a sustainable way
• Build support and capacity for conservation

Because of your support, the Nature Matters campaign is making an impact in Arizona and around the world. During the campaign, we:

• Protected nearly 22,000 acres of land and 34 river miles in Arizona, including: 
  • Headwaters of the Verde River
  • Historic Shield Ranch in the Verde Valley
  • Land along the Babocomari River, a tributary to the San Pedro River 
     
• Advanced the multi-million-acre Four Forest Restoration Initiative, the nation’s largest forest project.
   
• Restored the 4,000-acre Cobra Ranch. 

• Strengthened a broad coalition to advance State Trust Land reform to benefit classrooms and conservation. 

• Reduced fire risk, improved forest health and created jobs in the White Mountains.

• Partnered with Arizona Department of Transportation on statewide plans that avoid important lands and water.

• U. S. Congress designated Fossil Creek as “Wild and Scenic.”
   
• Created the Center for Science & Public Policy—the first initiative of its kind in Arizona.

• Worked side by side with ranchers along our Mexico border to preserve wildlife habitat and their ranching livelihoods in one of the most ecologically rich areas in North America.

• Impacted people and nature around the world:
  • Improved water quality for millions of people in South America
  • Helped local people in Namibia create nature-based jobs
  • Protected coral reefs and marine life.

·    To date, every $1 you invested generated $4 in contributed value for a $175 million conservation impact. And, the impact keeps growing...