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Example of a working landscape in Canada. Working landscapes are landscapes used for farming, ranching and/or forestry. [1] Recently, these have become the focus of efforts to conserve biodiversity, [2] as these now cover more than 80% of Earth's land, [3] and therefore offer increasing opportunities for conservation and restoration.
Image credits: Natural History Museum #5 Winner, Animal Portraits: On Watch By John E Marriott, Canada. John E Marriott frames a lynx resting, with its fully grown young sheltering from the cold ...
In addition to owning and managing preserves, Natural Lands preserves land by working with private land owners to establish and enforce conservation easements. A conservation easement is a voluntary but legally binding agreement that permanently limits a property's use. To date, the organization holds easements on more than 22,000 acres.
Wetland conservation is aimed at protecting and preserving areas of land including marshes, swamps, bogs, and fens that are covered by water seasonally or permanently due to a variety of threats from both natural and anthropogenic hazards. Some examples of these hazards include habitat loss, pollution, and invasive species.
The images will be part of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London from Friday to June 29, 2025. In the meantime, take a look at more of this year ...
Glades Wildlife Refuge, also known as The Glades, is 7,440 acres (30.1 km 2) in Newport, New Jersey along the Delaware Bay. Owned by Natural Lands, [ 1 ] this nature preserve is a landscape of tidal marshes, wooded uplands, beaches along the Delaware Bay, and an old growth forest.
The Ferguson Bayou region of this drained land did not prove to be well-suited for this purpose, although the wildlife refuge continues to use, maintain, and rebuild many of the ditches, drains, and dikes dug during this period. The Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1953.
The Wildlands Conservancy is a nonprofit organization with a mission to preserve land for public recreation. It manages 25 preserves, detailed in the list of its preserves, covering over 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) across the western United States.