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Director's Corner
In October, The Nature Conservancy launched the most ambitious conservation campaign ever undertaken. The Campaign for a Sustainable Planet is designed to double the area under conservation across the globe by 2015. The campaign will focus our conservation work on globally significant habitats on six continents and in the world’s oceans. Most importantly, the campaign will forge new ways of achieving conservation – in partnership and for the benefit of people. For me, this conservation campaign is hugely motivating – it is solidly grounded in science, is global in scope, and inspiring in reach. The campaign lets us put our work in Alaska in a global context. We are focusing our efforts on Alaska’s globally significant habitats: wild salmon ecosystems, coastal forests of Southeast Alaska, wetlands and coastal waters of the North Slope, and the extraordinary marine habitats of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Our work in these globally significant habitats is part and parcel of The Nature Conservancy’s global vision and campaign. Alaska can also serve as a model and beacon for the rest of the world. We are at the leading edge of a changing climate and are actively working to understand how we must adapt in managing our lands and waters. Alaska – as much as any place on Earth – also shows us the importance of the relationship between people and the land. The lessons we learn in these areas are relevant to our conservation work around the globe; the opportunity and responsibility to share these lessons further elevates our work to a global stage. The Campaign for a Sustainable Planet may be the most significant conservation effort of this generation. I invite you to join with us as we reach to achieve this inspiring and hopeful vision. |
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