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Frogard Ryan, the Conservancy’s Eastern Colorado Program director, recently spent two months in the east African country of Tanzania, working with a local land trust to help build a foundation for an effective conservation program.

By Charles Bedford

I write to you with visions of the Orient swirling in my head, having just returned from an inspiring week working with The Nature Conservancy’s program in China. In July, I’ll bring my family with me to Bejing, where we’ll live and work for a year.

As many of you know, this is a pivotal time for conservation – in Colorado and throughout the world. The challenges facing us – climate change, the over-exploitation of natural resources, the fragmentation of wildlife corridors and the loss of lands and waters that sustain people and nature – are daunting.

Yet, with the Conservancy’s ability to harness the talent of the world’s great scientists and the resources of influential public and private partners, I am confident we can make significant progress in resolving these environmental challenges.

The Conservancy in Colorado, through our work abroad, has a great opportunity to share some of our knowledge and experience with the program in China, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary of conservation progress.

And achieving conservation success in Colorado – with its amazingly rich grasslands, rivers and western valleys – is critical within the greater global context, too.

I am proud of the Colorado program – for its achievements in the Rocky Mountain West and for wholeheartedly embracing the Conservancy’s global mission.

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Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Scott Warren (trekking in the Yunnan Province, China); Photo © Tamera Bedford (journey begins).