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Earth Day 2026

Make This an Earth Day for All Generations

As The Nature Conservancy celebrates 75 years of working to protect and preserve nature, let’s make Earth Day 2026 a day to celebrate our planet’s incredible power—to amaze us, inspire us, teach us and provide for us. Let’s make Earth Day 2026 a day to remember the future we share, and that we’ll create together.

Let’s make Earth Day 2026 a day for all the generations that got us here, and for all the generations to come.

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To love this Earth is to love our own beating hearts.

Our Thriving Planet, Our Beating Hearts (3:18) On Earth Day, and every day, we’re working to create a future with a livable climate, healthy communities and thriving nature for generations to come.

4 Ways You Can Act for Earth Right Now

Every Earth Day action is meaningful. Here are four things you can do right now.

Connect With Nature

Download your free Earth Day Guide and get inspired to connect with nature through birdwatching, gardening, scavenger hunts and more.

Inspire Our Youth

Download our free kid-friendly Earth Day Activity Guide and help tomorrow’s conservationists develop a lasting concern for the health of the natural world.

Double Your Gift

Use your employer gift match to double your generous Earth Day gift and amplify our work to create a thriving planet for all generations.

Protect Conservation Funding

Sign our nature pledge and tell your U.S. representatives that all the lands, waters and wildlife we depend on are depending on us to protect them.

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More Ways You Can Connect

Help Restore Nature

Volunteer with us on Earth Day to help conserve the natural world near you, connect to our work and build community.

Inspire Future Generations

Help young people and their caregivers take action for nature.

Discover Ways to Reduce Waste

Learn eight small, eco-friendly actions that can lead to large, positive changes for our planet on Earth Day—and every day.

The Nature Conservancy’s Goals for 2030

Our planet faces the interconnected crises of rapid climate change and biodiversity loss. We have years, not decades, to address these existential threats.

What we do between now and 2030 will determine whether we slow warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius—the level scientists agree will avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Our actions will also determine whether we conserve enough land, fresh water and ocean to slow the rapid acceleration of species loss.

There is no time for delay.

If we succeed, we will safeguard people from the disastrous effects of climate change and species loss.

Learn about our 2030 goals

How We Work to Achieve Our Mission

Rooted in decades of on-the-ground experience, we maximize our ability to affect change by bringing together real-world solutions, policy expertise, sustainable financing and collaborative partnerships.

With a grounding in rigorous science, we take innovative conservation approaches from idea to impact, scaling up from the local to the global level in an effort to achieve system change. Learn more.
We use a practical, nonpartisan approach to show policymakers across the political spectrum how nature can provide effective solutions to major challenges like climate change and species loss. Learn more.
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. We’re continually learning and growing in how we show up as an authentic, ethical partner. Learn more.
By catalyzing more investment in nature’s services, we can unlock new sources of capital that allow us to scale up our work far beyond what traditional funding can do alone. Learn more.
The private sector has a significant impact on our climate and our natural resources. That’s why we’re applying our science and expertise to help businesses make better decisions for our planet, and for us. Learn more.
We must work smarter to achieve our conservation goals. New technologies and innovative collaborations allow us to leverage the power of disruption to conserve faster. Learn more.
We listen to and collaborate with young nature lovers, future scientists and emerging trailblazers who are coming of age and demanding a different path forward. Learn more.

For All Generations

In our first 75 years, we’ve written a remarkable story that spans decades of change. A story of optimism, determination, evolution and resilience. A story of all the incredibly great things that happen when we work together—in backyards and boardrooms, in laboratories and legislative halls, across aisles and continents—to protect and conserve nature.

A story whose heroes are all of us, working together to create a future with a livable climate, healthy communities and thriving nature.

75 years of conservation success

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Our 75th anniversary is for more than just us. It’s for a natural world that grows, unites and endures. It’s for a planet where the seemingly trivial becomes undeniably transformative. It’s for a future we share, a future we’ll create together.

This moment is for all the generations that got us here, and for all the generations to come.