The Nature Conservancy in Vermont - The Oak Log: Summer 2007 Story 4

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The Oak Log / Summer 2007
by Jennifer Kramer

For Jackie Tuxill, a former trustee on the Conservancy’s Vermont board, and a consultant in community-based conservation, thinking locally and globally comes easily. Jackie was born in Chengdu, China, in Sichuan Province, where her parents taught medicine from 1930 to 1945. With China deeply engraved in her consciousness, she decided to make a gift to conservation in China in her parents’ honor.

During a trip to China in 2005, Jackie journeyed to Yunnan Province and saw the Conservancy’s approach first hand. “The way we make headway with conservation is to make it meaningful within the context of peoples’ lives,” reflects Jackie. She was impressed with the sensitivity of the Yunnan Photovoice Project, which gives people cameras to document their environment and culture; the results are used to inform conservation planning and practice. In the countryside around Lijiang, she saw community education and ecotourism projects helping to protect forests where the Yunnan golden monkey lives. The trip inspired her to make a three-year commitment to support the Conservancy’s work in China, with the first year gift targeted to the Yunnan Great Rivers Project.

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Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Oak Log Cover Design: The Laughing Bear Associates; Cover Photos © Susan C. Morse (Bobcat and bear).