Our Priorities Around the World
Explore this map to see The Nature Conservancy’s key initiatives around the world to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.
A livable climate, healthy communities and thriving nature: This is the one future The Nature Conservancy (TNC) envisions. How do we get there? Together, with a clear recognition that we have years, not decades, to address the intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.
TNC is focused on three critical priorities that represent TNC’s contribution to the planet-wide effort to address these dual crises: 1) tackling climate change, 2) protecting land, ocean and fresh water and 3) providing food and water.
The interactive map below highlights some of TNC’s most important work across each of these priorities and the transformative ways TNC is carrying it out: through cutting-edge science and smart nature-positive policies; innovative paths to game-changing conservation funding; and authentic partnerships that center Indigenous and community leadership.
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- Sustainable Forestry in Indonesian Borneo
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Sustainable Forestry in Indonesian Borneo
Tackle Climate Change
As the world’s third-largest island, Borneo is home to nearly 29 million hectares of tropical forests and contains immense biodiversity. Together with our main Indonesian partner, Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara, TNC is acquiring long-term management rights to inactive timber areas to protect forests and wildlife, sequester carbon and support new economic opportunities.
- Advancing Clean Energy in the U.S.
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Advancing Clean Energy in the U.S.
Tackle Climate Change
In the U.S., TNC is helping communities transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy. In Kentucky, for example, we are working with BrightNight and Rivian Automotive Inc. to transform one of the nation's largest former coal mines into a new hub for solar energy. This sort of energy transition restores land, creates local jobs, reduces pollution and protects wildlife habitat.
- Accelerating Renewable Energy Transition in Europe
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Accelerating Renewable Energy Transition in Europe
Tackle Climate Change
By planning renewable energy smartly, Europe can meet its goal to become the world's first climate-neutral continent. TNC is mainstreaming our smart siting approach as best practice across the continent–making it faster and easier for renewable energy projects to be developed in ways that protect nature and support communities.
- Advancing Climate Solutions in the Amazon
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Advancing Climate Solutions in the Amazon
Tackle Climate Change
The Amazon is near its tipping point, as unsustainable agriculture, development, resource extraction, drought and wildfire all risk irreversible damage. TNC and partners are working with governments, rural producers, and Indigenous Peoples and local communities to co-create a sustainable future for the Amazon, combining traditional knowledge and innovative science.
- Protecting the Mesoamerican Reef
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Protecting the Mesoamerican Reef
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
The Mesoamerican Reef—the world’s second-largest barrier reef—serves as a natural buffer against storms along the Yucatan Peninsula. To protect this vital habitat in Guatemala, Belize and Mexico, we are building a network of protected areas, innovating conservation finance mechanisms, and collaborating with local fishers to improve fisheries management.
- Siting Clean Energy in India
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Siting Clean Energy in India
Tackle Climate Change
In India, TNC is developing and expanding science-based energy siting tools and practices to ensure the country’s energy transition doesn’t come at the expense of nature and communities. These efforts are designed to help reduce land-use conflicts, speed up renewable energy deployment and preserve natural areas and agricultural lands.
- Supporting Communities and Climate in Maya Forest
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Supporting Communities and Climate in Maya Forest
Tackle Climate Change
The Maya Forest spans the Yucatan Peninsula, covering parts of Belize, Guatemala and Mexico. TNC partners with communities to conserve and restore this vital ecosystem by integrating traditional Indigenous knowledge with scientific approaches, strengthening governance frameworks, and promoting sustainable economic opportunities.
- World-Leading Protection in Gabon
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World-Leading Protection in Gabon
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
Gabon's vast, intact forests, freshwaters, and ocean harbor astounding biodiversity, including half of all forest elephants, critically endangered gorillas, electric fish, humpback whales, and more. Here, TNC is deploying conservation and sustainable financing tools to help the country meet its goal of being the first in the world to protect 30% of all its land, freshwater, and ocean territories.
- Building Flood Resilience in the Northeastern U.S.
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Building Flood Resilience in the Northeastern U.S.
Tackle Climate Change
With historic cities and infrastructure designed and built for another era, the flooding impacts in the Northeast are potentially catastrophic. In Massachusetts and other states, TNC is helping create state programs that support community resilience and drive investments in green infrastructure and nature-based solutions to build a better future for both people and nature.
- Collaboratively Conserving Lake Tanganyika Basin
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Collaboratively Conserving Lake Tanganyika Basin
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
TNC is working with governments, partners and communities to conserve freshwater habitat and fisheries while supporting livelihoods around the four-nation Lake Tanganyika Basin. Here, fisheries support food, economic security and a critical diversity of freshwater species.
- United for Rivers in the Western Balkans
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United for Rivers in the Western Balkans
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
The Western Balkans is home to some of Europe’s last free-flowing rivers. In an effort to preserve the region's natural treasures, TNC and six local NGOs have started United For Rivers, an initiative to ensure lasting protection for 13 priority rivers across five countries in collaboration with local and national government leaders and the communities that the rivers connect.
- Supporting Mongolia’s 30x30 Vision
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Supporting Mongolia’s 30x30 Vision
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
Mongolia is working to protect 30% of its country. Through the Eternal Mongolia initiative and Enduring Earth partnership, TNC is helping the country unlock USD $198 million over 15 years to safeguard 14.4 million hectares (ha) of grasslands, rivers and other vital ecosystems; strengthen management of 47 million ha of protected areas; and extend climate-resilient community-led practices.
- Conserving the Heart of Zambia and greater KAZA
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Conserving the Heart of Zambia and greater KAZA
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
TNC and partners are leading work to transform Zambia’s Kafue-West Lunga landscape into one that is wildlife-abundant, climate-resilient, and financially sustainable. All anchored by Kafue National Park, buffered by thriving community-conserved lands that meaningfully benefit local people, and linked to greater KAZA’s conservation areas via community-managed wildlife corridors.
- Protecting and Reconnecting U.S. Rivers
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Protecting and Reconnecting U.S. Rivers
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
Rivers protect our health, prosperity and resiliency. Yet just 2% of U.S. rivers remain free-flowing. To heal river systems from Colorado to the Appalachians, TNC is removing barriers and restoring habitat alongside Tribal Nations and local communities. In Maine, one of the largest river restoration efforts in the nation hopes to recover the Kennebec River’s health and enhance economic vitality.
- Securing a Nature-Positive Future in the Caribbean
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Securing a Nature-Positive Future in the Caribbean
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
TNC and partners are working to support the Caribbean’s goals for conserving 30% of its ocean, land and freshwater resources by 2030 (part of the global goal known as 30x30). This includes the recent launch of the Caribbean 30x30 Conservation Dashboard, a decision-support tool to help Caribbean nations protect, restore and manage their lands and waters—and achieve a nature-positive future.
- Supporting Indigenous Leadership in Great Bear Sea
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Supporting Indigenous Leadership in Great Bear Sea
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
In 2024, TNC supported 17 First Nations and federal and provincial governments to launch the Great Bear Sea Project Finance for Permanence on coastal British Columbia. It supports Canada’s first (and world’s largest) Indigenous-led, designed and co-managed Marine Protected Area network and links ocean conservation to protection of the region’s old-growth rainforests and economic development.
- Protecting the Okavango Basin and greater KAZA
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Protecting the Okavango Basin and greater KAZA
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
95% of the waters that bring KAZA’s famed Okavango Delta oasis to life—and support its astounding array of wildlife—come from Angola. Here, TNC is working with communities, government, and NGO partners to conserve the river’s life-giving headwaters while improving human well-being and livelihood opportunities among severely underserved communities.
- Conserving Australian Country
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Conserving Australian Country
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
Australia is home to some of the world’s most important ecosystems. But it is losing biodiversity faster than any other continent, which threatens communities and contributes to carbon emissions. To support national goals, TNC is working with governments, Indigenous organizations and private funders to protect large ecosystems. This includes supporting the creation of Indigenous Protected Areas.
- Advancing Colombia’s 30x30 Goal
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Advancing Colombia’s 30x30 Goal
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
In 2023, TNC proudly supported the establishment of Colombia’s Manacacías National Park, which safeguards 68,000 hectares of tropical savanna connecting the Orinoquía, Andes and Amazon regions—an area rich in biodiversity. Today, we continue to work closely with the Colombian government to build on this work and help the country achieve its commitment to protect 30% of its land and ocean by 2030.
- Resilient Oceans and Communities in Belize
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Resilient Oceans and Communities in Belize
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
In 2021, TNC worked with Belize's government and financial institutions to refinance $553 million of the country’s debt, unlocking an estimated $180 million to support the country’s marine and community conservation efforts over 20 years. The Belize Blue Bonds project includes the launch of a collaborative Marine Spatial Planning process to assess needs and inform long-term conservation plans.
- Advancing 30x30 Around the World
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Advancing 30x30 Around the World
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
In 2022, 190 countries adopted the Global Biodiversity Framework to protect 30% of the planet’s oceans, lands and fresh water by 2030, the biggest conservation commitment the world has ever seen. Now, TNC is supporting countries around the world to deliver 30x30 funding, policy and conservation action—with strong progress in Canada, Mongolia, Australia, Colombia, and more.
- Advancing the Nature Bonds Program
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Advancing the Nature Bonds Program
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
To achieve the world's climate and biodiversity goals, many developing countries need financial support. Through TNC’s Nature Bonds Program, we work with governments, financial institutions and communities to help countries leverage debt refinancing to pay for conservation and climate action. It's a global opportunity—with the latest progress in The Bahamas and Ecuador.
- Large-Scale Conservation for an Enduring Earth
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Large-Scale Conservation for an Enduring Earth
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
Through the Enduring Earth partnership, TNC is supporting landscape-scale initiatives in Mongolia, Canada, Gabon and Kenya that leverage the Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) model. PFP is a globally tested approach to long-term, large-scale conservation and community development investment that brings partners, funding, and comprehensive planning together to support lasting benefits.
- Securing Water in South Africa & Kenya
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Securing Water in South Africa & Kenya
Provide Food & Water
Water funds help safeguard biodiversity and secure clean water for communities by uniting downstream water users to invest in upstream conservation and restoration. TNC supports 17 water funds in Africa, including four in Kenya and three in South Africa, where the Cape Town water fund is paying for invasive species removal that returns 15.2 billion liters of water to the system every year.
- Supporting Resilient U.S. Watersheds & Communities
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Supporting Resilient U.S. Watersheds & Communities
Provide Food & Water
TNC helps communities secure funding to conserve lands that filter and regulate the water supply in watersheds across the U.S., like the Mississippi River Basin and the Rio Grande in New Mexico. For example, the Rio Grande Water Fund protects water supplies and boosts local economies by restoring forests and reducing wildfire risk on 600,000 acres that include critical headwaters.
- Partnering for Thriving Fisheries in Indian Ocean
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Partnering for Thriving Fisheries in Indian Ocean
Provide Food & Water
The Western Indian Ocean’s marine ecosystems are some of the world’s most biodiverse, with over 2,200 species of fish and over 350 species of corals. TNC is working with partners across Seychelles, Kenya, and Tanzania to tackle habitat loss and degradation, improve fisheries management, and address conflict over the use of marine resources.
- Promoting Regenerative Agriculture in India
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Promoting Regenerative Agriculture in India
Provide Food & Water
India’s states of Punjab and Haryana are the country’s largest producers of essential foods like wheat and rice. Here, TNC is working with farmers to eliminate the need to burn fields before replanting and reduce pressure on local watersheds. By promoting regenerative agricultural practices, these regions can reduce their carbon emissions, improve soil structure and reduce costs to the farmer.
- Conserving the Humboldt Current
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Conserving the Humboldt Current
Provide Food & Water
The Humboldt Current is one of Earth’s richest marine environments and a top fish producer. But over-exploitation is depleting the region’s biodiversity. In Chile, Peru and Ecuador, TNC is working with fishers, the seafood industry and the government to enable sustainable, conservation-friendly management of fisheries that maintains ocean biodiversity while contributing to global food production.
- Investing in Regenerative Food in the Cerrado
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Investing in Regenerative Food in the Cerrado
Provide Food & Water
Brazil’s vast savanna region, the Cerrado, is witnessing one of the world’s largest agribusiness booms, with over half of its natural habitat converted to cropland and pasture. TNC and partners are investing in agricultural initiatives that focus on restoring degraded lands and leverage innovative financing and technology to meet production demands without losing more natural areas.
- Securing Sustainable Tuna with Small Islands
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Securing Sustainable Tuna with Small Islands
Provide Food & Water
With 90% of global fisheries quickly reaching unsustainable levels, it is critical to improve their management. TNC’s Tuna Transparency Pledge aims for 100% monitoring on all industrial tuna vessels by 2027. Initial signatories include Walmart, Albertsons Companies, Thai Union, Belize, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
- A Regenerative Foodscape in Kenya’s Highlands
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A Regenerative Foodscape in Kenya’s Highlands
Provide Food & Water
In Kenya’s Central Highlands, water flows from Mount Kenya through highland forests and semi-arid farmland into rangelands where livestock and wildlife roam. TNC and partners are collaborating on the Central Highlands Ecoregion Foodscape to improve livelihoods and conserve biodiversity across this landscape—through strategies like collective water use, land management and regenerative farming.
- Collaborating for Freshwater in Latin America
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Collaborating for Freshwater in Latin America
Provide Food & Water
TNC partners with 80 Indigenous communities in the Amazon to safeguard over 370 hectares of reserve that sustain river connectivity for over 200 fish species. In Colombia's Caquetá River basin, TNC integrates traditional knowledge with modern techniques to strengthen freshwater fisheries, while in Ecuador, TNC collaborates with the government to establish new freshwater protection areas.
- Incentivizing Gran Chaco’s Regenerative Farming
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Incentivizing Gran Chaco’s Regenerative Farming
Provide Food & Water
South America’s second-largest forest, the Gran Chaco, is home to thousands of unique plant and wildlife species. TNC is partnering with food producers, businesses and government to reverse decades of habitat loss from beef and soy production. This includes promoting business models that incentivize both native habitat protection and regenerative farming practices.
- Enabling Thriving Fisheries in Palau
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Enabling Thriving Fisheries in Palau
Provide Food & Water
In the Palau archipelago, investing in sustainable fisheries and aquaculture is helping the country balance food sovereignty with healthy ecosystems and economic growth. TNC, in collaboration with Palau's government, has developed a new tool that maps out the best locations for new aquaculture. TNC is also engaging with the fishing industry to improve management and traceability.
- Norfolk Water Fund in England
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Norfolk Water Fund in England
Provide Food & Water
Norfolk, England is rich in natural beauty and biodiversity, but the agricultural region is also one of the UK’s driest, increasingly challenged by climate change. The Norfolk Water Fund is a partnership between TNC, the local water company, and others to deploy nature-based solutions for collective water management. We are using this project as a model for other potential projects in the region.
- Transforming to Zero-Conversion Supply Chains
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Transforming to Zero-Conversion Supply Chains
Provide Food & Water
To meet the world’s increasing food demand, it is essential to decouple commodity production from habitat loss. TNC’s Zero Conversion Commodities strategy aims to transform the soy, cattle, and palm oil markets by enabling producers in critical ecosystems from South America to Indonesia to meet demand without converting native habitat for agriculture.
- Policy and Public Funding - Europe
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Policy and Public Funding - Europe
Transformative Practices
The EU Green Deal provides a road map for Europe to become the first climate-neutral continent—a signal to the world of its environmental leadership. TNC works with Europe's policy and financial institutions to advance our goals in Europe, like providing science to set the 25,000 km river restoration target in the EU Nature Restoration Law, and Europe’s contribution to global conservation too.
- Policy & Public Funding—United States
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Policy & Public Funding—United States
Transformative Practices
It is globally important that the U.S. government meet its responsibilities to care for the country’s land, air, water and wildlife. TNC is focused on creating, implementing and defending policies like the Farm Bill and Great American Outdoors Act, as well as bedrock laws that are critical for our communities, nature and climate to thrive.
- Impact Finance & Markets—Carbon Markets
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Impact Finance & Markets—Carbon Markets
Transformative Practices
We must use all the tools at our disposal to create a world where people and nature thrive. For example, the U.S. Family Forest Carbon Program is helping family forest owners from the Central Appalachians to the Midwest use climate-smart forestry to improve forest health and address climate change while accessing markets that pay for these practices.
- Policy & Public Funding—Implementing 30x30
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Policy & Public Funding—Implementing 30x30
Transformative Practices
In 2022, 190 countries adopted the Global Biodiversity Framework to protect 30% of the planet’s oceans, lands and fresh water by 2030, the biggest conservation commitment the world has ever seen. Now, TNC is supporting countries around the world to achieve their 30x30 ambitions through finance solutions, policy and conservation action, with strong progress in Mongolia, Australia, Canada, and more.
- Impact Finance & Markets—Nature Bonds Program
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Impact Finance & Markets—Nature Bonds Program
Transformative Practices
To meet climate and biodiversity goals, many developing countries need financial support. TNC works with governments, financial institutions and communities to help countries leverage debt refinancing to pay for conservation and climate action through an initiative known as the Nature Bonds Program. This effort has generated an estimated USD $1 Billion in 6 countries, including The Bahamas.
- Impact Finance & Markets—PFPs and Enduring Earth
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Impact Finance & Markets—PFPs and Enduring Earth
Transformative Practices
Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) is a globally tested model for long-term, large-scale conservation and community development investment that brings partners, funding, and comprehensive planning together to support lasting benefits to a region. Through the Enduring Earth partnership, TNC supports these landscape-scale initiatives in Mongolia, Canada, and elsewhere.
- Impact Finance & Markets—Aquatic Food Supply
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Impact Finance & Markets—Aquatic Food Supply
Transformative Practices
Impact Finance & Markets: With 90% of global fisheries having reached or exceeded maximum sustainable levels, it is critical to improve their management. TNC’s Tuna Transparency Pledge aims to achieve 100% on-the-water monitoring on all industrial tuna vessels by 2027. Initial signatories include Walmart, Albertsons Companies, Thai Union, Belize, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
- Impact Finance & Markets—Zero Conversion Supply
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Impact Finance & Markets—Zero Conversion Supply
Transformative Practices
To meet the world’s increasing food demand, it is essential to decouple commodity production from habitat loss. Innovative Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco (IFACC) is an initiative of TNC and partners developed to accelerate lending and investment for climate-friendly beef and soy production models in key biomes in South America.
- Ensuring a Resilient Colorado River
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Ensuring a Resilient Colorado River
Provide Food & Water
The Colorado River is the lifeline of the West, spanning 1,500 miles across seven U.S. states and two countries. On the river’s mainstem and key tributaries, such as the San Juan River, TNC is working with water users, managers and policymakers to ensure there is plenty of clean water—at the right times and places—to support nature and people alike.
- Healthy, Productive Fisheries and Estuaries
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Healthy, Productive Fisheries and Estuaries
Provide Food & Water
Millions of people living and working along the U.S. South Atlantic and Gulf coasts depend on healthy waters for their livelihoods and way of life—from tourism and recreation to shipping and local cuisine. TNC is helping to maintain these benefits by conserving priority estuaries and supporting productive and sustainable fisheries.
- Regenerating U.S. Grazing and Grasslands
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Regenerating U.S. Grazing and Grasslands
Provide Food & Water
The Flint Hills of Oklahoma and Kansas offer rolling panoramas of breeze-bent grasses and boundless skies. Here and elsewhere, TNC is partnering with ranchers, public agencies, supply chain companies, commodity groups, non-profits and others to implement regenerative practices that can conserve native grazing lands while supporting the cultures and livelihoods of the people who depend on them.
- Diversifying U.S. Crop Systems
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Diversifying U.S. Crop Systems
Provide Food & Water
Across the U.S., TNC is working with partners to make sure our agriculture systems benefit people, climate and nature. For example, in Minnesota, TNC is working alongside farmers to make oat production more viable and scalable. Oats create new market opportunities, improve water quality and soil health and reduce climate impacts—a win-win for farmers, communities and nature.
- Ensuring Sustainable Fisheries in the Great Lakes
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Ensuring Sustainable Fisheries in the Great Lakes
Provide Food & Water
The Great Lakes fisheries support a $7 billion industry and are essential for the health of one of the world's most vital freshwater systems. On Lake Michigan and others, TNC and our partners are protecting and restoring native fish populations for thriving, resilient fisheries serving vibrant communities along the coast and beyond.
- Advancing U.S. Climate Action
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Advancing U.S. Climate Action
Tackle Climate Change
TNC’s U.S. Climate Action strategy aims to put the nation on a path to net-zero emissions by 2050. This will be achieved by accelerating clean energy and implementing natural climate solutions. The strategy is currently focused on creating, implementing and defending federal and state climate and clean energy policies.
- Conservation & Forest Management—Congo Basin
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Conservation & Forest Management—Congo Basin
Tackle Climate Change
In the world’s largest forest carbon sink, TNC supports forest protection and working forest best practices, including selective logging that maintains harvests while also cutting emissions by up to 50%, storing more carbon and generating income for communities. TNC is preparing to expand financing and stewardship to other Congo Basin countries.
- Insuring Nature for Climate Adaptation
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Insuring Nature for Climate Adaptation
Tackle Climate Change
Coral reefs are a critical buffer from storms and climate harm. TNC has been working with the insurance industry and communities to provide actual insurance policies for these vital habitats, first along the Mesoamerican Reef and now in Hawai’i. These first-of-their-kind policies support habitat restoration and serve as a model for managing climate risk around the globe.
- Leveraging Science to Scale NCS
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Leveraging Science to Scale NCS
Transformative Practices
Combined with cutting fossil fuels and accelerating renewable energy, natural climate solutions offer immediate and cost-effective ways to tackle the climate crisis, address biodiversity loss, and support human health and livelihoods. TNC scientists and partners are investigating how, when, and where to invest in natural climate solutions to deliver on the world’s most urgent climate goals.
- Leveraging Science for Water Security
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Leveraging Science for Water Security
Transformative Practices
As the global water crisis accelerates, many people around the world are turning to nature-based solutions to mitigate water risk and recover freshwater ecosystems. Grounded in science and utilizing data from around the world, TNC and Forest Trends released the most comprehensive global assessment to date of finance explicitly directed toward nature-based solutions with water-related objectives.
- Conserving the Iconic Amazon for People & Nature
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Conserving the Iconic Amazon for People & Nature
Transformative Practices
The Amazon—home to the world’s richest biodiversity, largest forest carbon stock and most expansive river basin—is essential to planetary health. It is also home to hundreds of Indigenous and local communities. In this vital region, TNC is advancing a suite of transformative strategies to protect land and fresh water, improve food systems, and channel direct financing to local communities.
- Scaling Natural Climate Solutions: Canada & Beyond
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Scaling Natural Climate Solutions: Canada & Beyond
Tackle Climate Change
Working alongside Indigenous Peoples and local communities around the world, such as those in North America’s Emerald Edge, TNC is advancing natural climate solutions to remove greenhouse gas emissions store carbon. We are using new financing tools to scale these efforts and supporting Indigenous and local community stewardship of land, carbon and biodiversity resources.
- Indigenous & Community-Led Conservation
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Indigenous & Community-Led Conservation
Transformative Practices
TNC aims to support Indigenous Peoples and local communities in achieving their visions for stewarding and governing the territories and resources that sustain their well-being—which also strengthens conservation results. In northern Canada, First Nation communities are finding new ways to share vital knowledge that will help protect habitat for wildlife that are essential to their way of life.
- Protecting Micronesia’s Oceans
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Protecting Micronesia’s Oceans
Protect Ocean, Land & Fresh Water
The oceans of Micronesia are stewarded by nations and communities who’ve made some of the world’s most ambitious conservation commitments. A new $6.5M grant is helping Micronesians protect 72M hectares of ocean—an area the size of Texas—by improving management, expanding monitoring of industrial fishing fleets, and enabling sustainable financing.
TNC’s Goals for this Defining Decade
Our conservation work around the world reflects the most ambitious goals in TNC’s history. And we’re putting the weight of our entire organization behind achieving these goals by 2030.
With the support of more than a million members, the dedicated efforts of more than 5,000 staff and our work alongside partners, communities and decision-makers all over the world, together we will find a way to the future we envision.
Our Goals for 2030
We’re racing to hit these targets to help the world reverse climate change and biodiversity loss. Together, we find the paths to make change possible.
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3B
Avoid or sequester 3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually—the same as taking 650 million cars off the road every year.
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100M
Help 100 million people at severe risk of climate-related emergencies by safeguarding habitats that protect communities.
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650M
Conserve 650 million hectares—a land area twice the size of India—of biodiverse habitats such as forests, grasslands and deserts.
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4B
Conserve 4 billion hectares of marine habitat—more than 10% of the world’s oceans—through protected areas, sustainable fishing and more.
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30M
Conserve 1 million kilometers of rivers—enough to stretch 25 times around the globe—plus 30 million hectares of lakes and wetlands.
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45M
Support the leadership of 45 million people from Indigenous and local communities in stewarding their environment and securing rights.