Our Work
Our work is driven by a science based approach and our history of conservation
The Nature Conservancy is tackling the dual threats of accelerated climate change and unprecedented biodiversity loss. Science determines where we focus and equity guides how we achieve lasting results. Grounded by decades of local on-the-ground experience, we maximize our ability to affect change by bringing together real-world solutions, policy expertise, sustainable financing and collaborative partnerships.
Aiming for Our 2030 Goals
Our planet faces interconnected crises of rapid climate change and biodiversity loss. The TNC 2030 goals aim to help slow and reverse these trends.
Focus Areas
Land
The world’s wild places are being lost, and along with them we are losing the natural systems that protect us from the consequences of climate change. Protected areas are one of the most effective ways to conserve biodiversity and they remain a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation strategies.
Fresh Water
Water connects us all. We are working where water is plentiful and where it is not, where wetlands connect surface and groundwater, and where source waters connect to drinking water. The urgency to better protect them is now.
Ocean
The ocean is the heart of our planet, pumping oxygen, nutrients, water and weather around the globe. This constant circulation directly and indirectly provides the food and water we need to live and forms the backbone of our economies. The ocean's future is our future.
Climate
Climate change is here now. We can limit further warming and the dangers it poses—if we act now. Every fraction of a degree matters. By protecting natural habitats and carefully managing farmland and forests, we can store billions of tons of living carbon.
Food Sustainability
As the global population grows, the demand for sustainable food intensifies. TNC works with farmers, fishers and communities to promote sustainable food practices that regenerate soil, protect biodiversity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Our Approach
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Influence Policy
Our practical, nonpartisan approach shows policymakers across the political spectrum how nature can provide effective solutions to major challenges.
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Working with Companies
Applying our science and expertise to help businesses make better decisions for our climate and natural resources.
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Partner with Communities
Lasting conservation must actively involve the people linked to the natural systems we seek to protect. Their voices must be at the center of what we do.
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Advance Science
With a grounding in rigorous science, we take innovative conservation approaches from idea to impact, scaling to achieve system change.
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Invest in Nature
Unlocking new sources of capital that allow us to scale up our work far beyond what traditional funding can do alone.
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Educate Future Leaders
Listening to and collaborating with the young nature lovers, future scientists and emerging trailblazers who are demanding a different path forward.
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