From our CEO
Jennifer Morris
Dear Friends,
As a supporter of The Nature Conservancy, you are foundational to our past, present and future. I’m excited to share with you some of the amazing conservation successes that have occurred since we launched One Future: Together We Find a Way in 2024. The One Future campaign is the largest campaign TNC has ever undertaken—designed to fully finance our biggest and boldest goals yet.
Science tells us we are facing the most complex challenges of our lives—the intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. The actions we take now, together, will determine if we succeed. Our window of opportunity is open, and what we do in this decisive moment will shape the future of our planet.
Our vision of a thriving nature, livable climate and healthy communities is a testament to the world we want to see and represents our commitment to what matters most: thinking expansively, advancing meaningful solutions and supporting local communities and caretakers of the lands and waters on which all life depends.
This campaign impact report highlights acres protected and rivers restored; celebrates communities strengthened and policies changed; and heralds the value of deep research and scientific rigor. These stories are evidence that when we come together across perceived boundaries of geography, culture, language or industry, the solutions our planet needs are not only possible, but achievable.
On behalf of our colleagues around the world, thank you so much for the time, energy and passion you contribute to our mission. Your engagement is vital to our success. Thank you!
One Future, Many Voices
The One Future campaign is anchored in ambitious possibility. The conservation goals we’ve set for 2030 are ambitious—and the work that lies ahead is clear. This campaign reflects the overlapping priorities, pathways and practices that have the power to push us closer to the future we envision: a livable climate, healthy communities and thriving nature.
Conservation Highlights
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Explore our biggest wins
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- High Seas Treaty
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High Seas Treaty
Planet in Action
The High Seas Treaty paves a path to collaborative ocean protection. The high seas span two-thirds of the global ocean and fall beyond any nation’s jurisdiction. The treaty eases the process for countries to create marine protected areas (MPAs) here. With partners, TNC is working to establish the first High Seas MPAs by 2030, protecting up to 200 hectares of ocean—an area larger than Indonesia.
Image © Roshni Lodhia
- Kennebec River Protection
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Kennebec River Protection
Place in Action
TNC and partners secured a landmark agreement to purchase four dams on Maine’s Kennebec River—unlocking a once‑in‑a‑generation opportunity to reconnect more than 800 miles of river and stream to the Gulf of Maine. If successful, it could become one of the largest river restoration efforts in the nation, restoring a river that once sustained millions of sea‑run fish alongside coastal communities.
Image © Tim Paul
- Global Mangrove Alliance
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Global Mangrove Alliance
Planet in Action
Mangroves protect coastlines from storms and flooding while storing up to five times more carbon than tropical forests. Through the Global Mangrove Alliance, TNC joined with over 100 NGOs, governments, communities and funders to conserve and restore mangrove ecosystems. In countries like The Bahamas, we’re working with local women and youth to address climate risks by replanting mangrove saplings.
Image © Jeff Yonover
- Reef Builder Project
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Reef Builder Project
Place in Action
Through its UN‑recognized Reef Builder project, TNC is delivering the largest marine restoration initiative in the Southern Hemisphere. We’re restoring 300 hectares of lost shellfish reefs by 2030, with 62 hectares completed nationwide. Collaborating with scientists, Traditional Custodians, governments and communities, we’re improving water quality, marine biodiversity and coastal resilience.
Image © Jarrod Boord/Streamline Media
- Cape Water Bond
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Cape Water Bond
Planet in Action
In South Africa, TNC launched the Cape Water Bond—a first-of-its-kind nature-linked bond that’s reshaping how conservation can be financed at scale. The bond secures five years of critical funding for river catchment restoration through the Greater Cape Town Water Fund, proving that nature-based solutions can strengthen water security and deliver for ecosystems, communities and economies.
Image © Roshni Lodhia
- Advancing Indigenous Leadership in the Amazon
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Advancing Indigenous Leadership in the Amazon
Place in Action
Despite their outsize role in protecting rainforests, Indigenous Peoples receive only a tiny fraction of funding for climate and biodiversity protection. In the Brazilian Amazon, TNC is working to change that. We supported the creation of innovative funds genuinely led by Indigenous communities in Pará and Mato Grosso that have channeled resources to more than 100 local Indigenous organizations.
Image © Haroldo Palo Jr./TNC
- Free Rivers Accelerator
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Free Rivers Accelerator
Planet in Action
An initiative with remarkable potential to help the world’s rivers flow freely is in motion. The Free Rivers Accelerator promises to avoid new dams, remove barriers and protect free-flowing rivers at a pace and scale not yet imagined. TNC’s initial focus includes rivers and communities in Appalachia, the Balkans and priority basins worldwide, including the Amazon, Upper Zambezi and Okavango Delta.
Image © Ciril Jazbec
- Bentala Kalimantan Initiative
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Bentala Kalimantan Initiative
Place in Action
In East Kalimantan, Dayak communities are deeply tied to the health of the forests, which are threatened by extensive deforestation and degradation. Together, we’re testing a bold idea—combining protection of core habitat with improved livelihoods (from sustainable timber harvests, carbon credits and community agroforestry)—to show that conservation and sustainable development can go hand in hand.
Image © Bridget Besaw
- Protecting Chilean Patagonia in Perpetuity
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Protecting Chilean Patagonia in Perpetuity
Place in Action
Fundo Puchegüín's otherworldly wetlands and glaciers boast a diversity of life across its 133,000 hectares. In 2022, all of this was at risk. Conserva Puchegüín, a local initiative, raised $78+ million to secure it. Led by Puelo Patagonia with TNC, Freyja Foundation, Patagonia, Inc. and the Wyss Foundation, the coalition acquired the land and oversees wildlife monitoring and tourism management.
Image © Benjamín Valenzuela
- Nature Bonds Unlock $1 Billion for Nature
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Nature Bonds Unlock $1 Billion for Nature
Planet in Action
The six Nature Bonds projects TNC has helped implement since 2023—in places like The Bahamas, Seychelles, Ecuador and Gabon—have unlocked approximately $1 billion to protect oceans, lands and water. That money is helping improve management over more than 18,000 kilometers of rivers and 242+ million hectares of ocean, land and freshwater resources, an area the size of Greenland.
Image © Roshni Lodhia
- Protecting the Amazon with Regenerative Ranching
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Protecting the Amazon with Regenerative Ranching
Place in Action
TNC joined the Brazilian government and national cattle industry to enact Brazil’s first mandatory cattle traceability policy with environmental requirements, changing the economics of ranching to minimize deforestation and land conversion. In late 2025, the first batch of 100% traceable beef reached shelves in Brazil, showing that a more sustainable future for cattle ranching is in reach.
Image © Kevin Arnold
- Accelerating Renewables in Europe
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Accelerating Renewables in Europe
Place in Action
TNC’s smart-siting approach is reshaping how countries plan and permit renewable energy across Europe, in Portugal, Montenegro and the Balkans. We’re helping influence new EU guidance and regulations that embed biodiversity into renewables acceleration planning and procurement auctions. Combined, these efforts are positioning Europe to deliver a faster energy transition on a continental scale.
Image © Slavko Nikolić
- Eternal Conservation, Enduring Earth
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Eternal Conservation, Enduring Earth
Planet in Action
Enduring Earth is the largest conservation initiative in history. To date, it has helped conserve 231 million hectares of lands and waters, secure $1.8 billion in sustainable finance and enhance the lives and livelihoods of millions of people globally, in Mongolia, Kenya, Gabon, Brazil and Canada’s Great Bear Sea. By 2030, the coalition aims to conserve up to 1 billion hectares.
Image © Kiliii Yuyan
- Restoring Buffalo, Revitalizing Sacred Connections
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Restoring Buffalo, Revitalizing Sacred Connections
Place in Action
TNC purchased the Dakota Partnership Ranch from a family who had raised buffalo for decades using holistic land management practices. Buffalo play a central role in many Native Nations’ creation stories, ceremonies, diets and lifeways. TNC and partners will maintain the land for buffalo and reconnect this important place to the Oceti Sakowin Oyate, for whom this is sacred and unceded land.
Image © Morgan Heim
- Turning the Tide for Global Fisheries
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Turning the Tide for Global Fisheries
Planet in Action
TNC is using electronic monitoring and Edge-AI technology to enhance accountability in industrial fisheries and address one of the greatest challenges facing oceans: illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Since 2024, more than 15 leading fishing nations and corporations have signed the Tuna Transparency Pledge, a commitment to deliver 100% on-the-water monitoring on fishing vessels by 2027.
Image © Ian Shive
Realizing Our Vision
“As The Nature Conservancy celebrates 75 years, we’re building on our strong track record and continuing to evolve to deliver lasting, tangible conservation outcomes for people and nature. With your incredible support, we are advancing innovative ways to tackle climate change; protect oceans, lands and fresh water; and provide food and water sustainably. Thank you for your commitment to TNC.”
—David Banks, Chief Conservation Officer, The Nature Conservancy
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