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The Nature Conservancy reports that in 2000 it spun off its 85-center Natural Heritage Network "into a new independent organization, the Association for Biodiversity Information (later renamed NatureServe)." [6] NatureServe reports that it was established in 1994 [4] as the Association for Biodiversity Information.
The Nature Conservancy; The Earth Organization; This is My Earth; Traffic (conservation programme) Tree Aid; Wetlands International; WILD Foundation; Wildlife Conservation Society; World Business Council for Sustainable Development; World Land Trust; World Resources Institute; World Union for Protection of Life; World Wide Fund for Nature ...
NERC began in 1965 when several environmental (mainly geographic) research organisations (including Nature Conservancy which became the Nature Conservancy Council in 1973 and was divided up in 1991) were brought under the one umbrella organisation. [1]
The Nature Conservancy - largest environmental nonprofit by assets and revenue in the world. Wildlife Conservation Network - protecting endangered species and preserving their natural habitats. Wildlife Conservation Society - saves wildlife and wild places worldwide with programs in 60 countries; also manages five New York City wildlife parks ...
Environmental and conservation organizations in the United States have been formed to help protect the environment, habitats, flora, and fauna on federally owned land, on private land, within coastal limits, in-state conservation areas, in-state parks and in locally governed municipalities.
The Nature Conservancy suspended a range of practices shortly after the articles ran including these sales, licensing its logo to corporations whose executives sat on the Conservancy's governing board and council, all new logging and other "resource extraction activities" such as oil and gas drilling on its nature preserves, and all new loans ...
The Texas City Prairie Preserve is a 2,300-acre (9.3 km 2) nature preserve located on the shores of Moses Lake and Galveston Bay in Texas City, Texas in the United States, near Houston. The preserve was created in 1995 by the Nature Conservancy thanks to a $2.2 million donation of land by ExxonMobil .
Deer Lick Nature Sanctuary was created by a donation from Miss Evelyn Alverson to The Nature Conservancy in 1960 with a further donation of Deer Lick Falls by Herbert F. Darling. [citation needed] It was designated a National Natural Landmark in November 1967 for its mature hardwood forest and its gorges which highlight the Onondaga Escarpment. [1]