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See what we’ve been up to in 2009! From Colombia to California and Australia to Virginia, The Nature Conservancy has been busy protecting nature and preserving life on Earth. Read below for highlights of our 2009 conservation achievements.
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The Conservancy helped broker a commitment by the six island nations of the Coral Triangle — the world’s epicenter of coral reef biodiversity and home to millions of people who depend on the ocean for food and survival — to protect and restore the Triangle’s reefs. A huge triumph!
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The Conservancy helped the Mexican government create the Ocampo Flora and Fauna Protected Area — a new reserve that connects to other protected lands on both sides of the border, creating a vast 3.3 million-acre swath of bi-national conservation lands.
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The Conservancy’s 10-year effort to restore seagrass to Virginia’s South Bay kicked up a notch this summer when scientists and volunteers shimmied into wetsuits and re-seeded the bay with millions of seagrass seeds! Dive in to our video and photos to see how it was done!
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In August, the Conservancy released a state-by-state analysis of U.S. climate change trends, projecting that temperatures in the worst-hit states could be up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than present-day levels by the year 2100.
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There’s new hope for salmon in California’s Shasta River! The Conservancy’s protection and restoration of Shasta Big Springs Ranch will help revive endangered coho, steelhead and other species in the Klamath basin.
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Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photos © Bridget Besaw (Taking water samples on the Penobscot River); © Ami Vitale (Village children playing on the sand of a Micronesia beach); © Bridget Besaw (Salmon); © Hernando Cabral-Perdomo (Mexico); Daniel White/TNC (Bo Lusk collecting eelgrass at Virginia Coast Reserve); © Nicole Zirk (Climate Change); © Peter Eve (Australia); © Kevin Schafer (Olympic Peninsula mussels, Washington State); © L. Vinueza/Instituto Nazca (Banded Angelfish); © Udi Dagan (Design for a Living World); © Ron Geatz/TNC (Black rhino, Africa); © Margaret Croft/The News-Star 2009, used with permission (Mississippi River); © Aurelio Ramos/TNC (Sierra Nevada, Colombia)
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