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California is graced with a rich array of natural treasures — landscapes and seascapes so stunning that people travel from around the world just to marvel at them. These exquisite places are home to unmatched plant and animal diversity and provide us — directly or indirectly — food, water and shelter. They also enrich our spirit. Yet these cherished places are increasingly threatened.
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What Can You Do to Live More Sustainably?Test your lifestyle’s impact on the earth with the Carbon Calculator Learn how to be an environmentalist everyday. Make your next vacation local, check out the Conservancy's preserve map for a location near you. Get inspired! Listen to people’s tales of connections with the natural world.
Help Protect California's Lands and Waters |
We stand at a threshold that challenges us to take a fresh look at what we believe and how we interact with the world around us. We can create a future of vibrant oceans, fertile grasslands, flourishing forests and clean rivers supporting thriving communities by finding ways that allow us to live and grow without diminishing our natural resources.
Around the state and across the world we are partnering with farmers, ranchers, foresters, fishermen and others to find innovative ways to ensure that our lands, our waters and our communities remain healthy and productive for future generations.
Protecting and Managing Forests
for People and Nature
Forests are essential for life on Earth. They give us shade and shelter, refuge and refreshment, clean air and water. They also provide wood products vital to our lives and our economy. Harvesting select forests in an environmentally sensitive way meets both needs.
- Learn about an opportunity to protect California’s ancient redwoods.
- Read on for a story of a sustainable forest certified by the United States’ most rigorous standards for carbon credits.
- Learn how Colombian ranchers are protecting their cloud forests.
Shaping the Future of Healthy Oceans and Coasts
Covering more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, oceans are some of the most productive, yet threatened, natural systems in the world. With increasing pressures on our oceans and coasts, new and innovative strategies are needed to maintain and restore these important marine resources for people and nature.
- Read how we are turning a tide to a more sustainable fishery in California.
- Explore how a first-of-its-kind conservation fishing agreement is helping
protect scarce resources off California’s central coast. - Learn how we partner around the world to create marine protected areas.
Protecting the World's Lands and Waters
The Nature Conservancy is joining with ranchers, farmers, vineyard owners, and other private owners and public land managers to ensure these activities are both productive and environmentally sustainable. By partnering, we can ensure that land remains undeveloped, critical habitats are protected and wildlife and people thrive.
- Read about how the Conservancy’s Childs Meadow purchase protects critical habitat and supports the local community.
- See how the Conservancy worked with the Dorrance family to keep this
Monterey icon in ranching and free of development. - Learn why seven Mongolians visited California’s Carrizo Plain National Monument.
Nature picture credits (top to bottom): Photo © David M. Barron (View from Joughin Ranch); Photo © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Half Moon Bay Commercial Fishery Boat); Photo © John Birchard (Garcia River Forest); Photo © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Half Moon Bay Fishing); Photo © Felix Rigau (Dorrance Ranch).
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