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The goals are necessarily ambitious: In the United States, for instance, TNC aims to drive adoption of field-tested regenerative soil practices on growing row crops like corn, soybeans and cotton by 2030.
Many longstanding practices harmful to the environment are due for change, and TNC is investing in new and innovative entrepreneurial fixes—in the form of software and other high-tech tools—to help facilitate this critical transition.
Transforming Farms to Fight Climate Change TNC partnerships are rethinking agriculture to help grow sustainable yields, protect nature, address climate change and renew soil health.
ER Making sure the oceans thrive through new and better-managed protected areas, global-scale sustainable fishing, innovative financing and positive policy changes to how the world governs the seas.
Oceans Aquaculture is growing faster than any other sector of the global food system.
And the evidence shows that when done right, in the right places, some types of aquaculture can actually help restore natural systems.
Seaweed has become a top export for Tanzania, thanks in large part to farmers in the waters around the coastal island of Zanzibar.
This coastal aquaculture employs 80% of whom are women.
Despite the national importance of seaweed aquaculture, in recent years seaweed farmers have faced setbacks caused by the declining quality of seed stocks and the local warming of water, resulting in smaller harvests.
a range of partners—including agribusiness giant Cargill—have launched a training program to help seaweed farmers identify and implement more-sustainable farming techniques for their harvests.
Nearly are now working together with help from the program to improve harvests and care for the environment.
“As the world faces ecological challenges too big for any one nation to overcome alone, we must work together to ensure that nature and people can thrive everywhere,” says Lucy Magembe, TNC’s country director in Tanzania.
Sustainable Seas: Sada Hemedi Suleiman is a seaweed farmer and mother of four who lives in the village of Tumbe in Tanzania’s Zanzibar Archipelago.
Warmer ocean waters are transforming hurricanes into ever-more-powerful forces in the Caribbean, where storms are already capable of overwhelming communities with torrential floods and devastating winds.
“We have all seen the visible impacts of climate change before our eyes, such as more extreme weather and natural disasters, chronic drought and economic instability,” says Eddy Silva, TNC’s climate adaptation program manager in the Caribbean.
This natural alliance with IFRC is building long-term strategies for coastal protection in the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Grenada and Jamaica, with the potential to scale across the Caribbean and beyond.
It begins with geospatial mapping to help community leaders and researchers key in on problems like eroding coastlines, sea level rise and storm surges.
Then the project sets out a range of natural solutions.
Mangrove forests and sea grass hold firm against the forces of coastal erosion.
Coral reefs reduce wave energy while nurturing marine life near communities where fishing is a way of life.
At its core, the Resilient Islands model restores nature and safeguards places where people live and work.
Among all the fish in the sea, the Pacific skipjack tuna provides for the Earth’s third-largest seafood harvest, and nearly all of that catch is destined for cans on the supermarket shelf.
In fishing fleets haul in sustainable catches that also bring in a better price to support Pacific Island communities.
Pacific Island nations have for many years leased out the vast majority of tuna-fishing rights in their waters to international commercial fleets, providing a reliable revenue stream but also limiting their role in global seafood markets.
Thanks to a new joint venture called Pacific Island Tuna, the government of the Marshall Islands and TNC have a business model that puts the island nation in control of every link in the supply chain.
It also offers the nation a way to verify compliance with fair labor practices on fishing vessels and enact strict sustainability practices.
Plus, fishing profits will support climate-resiliency projects for communities vulnerable to rising sea levels.
“We are tapping into something big with this partnership,” says Mark Zimring, who leads TNC’s large-scale fisheries strategy.
—DUSTIN SOLBERG A Partnership to Protect Caribbean Communities TNC and the Red Cross/Crescent join forces to protect people and nature from climate threats.
Transforming Tuna Fishing Venture launched by TNC and the Marshall Islands boosts fisheries sustainability and keeps profits local.
The cerulean waters of Belize’s Caribbean coast are home to some of the nation’s most valuable treasures.
These waters support lush mangrove forests, vibrant reefs and extensive beds of sea grass, all of which provide critical habitat for threatened and endangered species, including West Indian manatees and hawksbill turtles.
To protect these natural wonders, the government of Belize signed an agreement with The Nature Conservancy in November that will generate an estimated $to protect 30% of its ocean waters.
The deal restructured approximately $financing for ocean conservation—as much as $180 million of new funding over the next 20 years.
With nearly half of all Belizeans living in coastal communities, the health of Belize’s marine ecosystems is of national importance.
“This deal is huge for Belize, but its impact extends far beyond us as well,” says Prime Minister John Briceño.
Saving for Nature: TNC’s NatureVest provided technical assistance when Belize sought to restructure debt and generate major new investment to protect gems like the Belize Barrier Reef.
S E E M O R E Scan the code with your phone’s camera to learn more about Belize’s ocean future, or visit nature.org/ belizebluebonds.
Ocean Wealth: An innovative business partnership with the Republic of the Marshall Islands means new fisheries sustainability and better financial returns for local communities.
ER Engaging in collaborative partnerships and promoting innovative solutions and policies that improve the quality and amount of water available in freshwater ecosystems and to communities.
Freshwater Springtime floodwaters of the Mississippi River and its major tributaries were once free to spread out across broad, low-lying floodplains.
In the however, towns and farms have sprung up along rivers that are now hemmed in by thousands of miles of earthen embankments called levees.
As climate change drives more destructive and unpredictable flooding throughout the Mississippi River Basin, many affected communities are rethinking how best to live with the river.
Following a devastating Missouri River flood in 2019, residents knew something had to change.
The river flooded evacuations and causing approximately $25 million in lost agricultural revenue.
Even as the community recovered, residents knew floodwaters would return someday.
At the community’s request, TNC brought together a large group of partners to rebuild the levee in its new location and led the effort to purchase the land for conservation.
Atchison County’s experience with reconnecting the Missouri River with its floodplain—once unthinkable to many—has become a practical option for river communities.
The Conservancy is continuing to work with communities to restore and reconnect 750,000 acres of river floodplains.
Scan the code with your phone’s camera and read more about the Mississippi River, or visit nature.org/ mississippiriverfuture.
are restoring parts of the river’s historic floodplain.
Fresh Catch: In the Mississippi Delta, the waters of places like Bayou Sorrel offer harvests of economically valuable fish species that sustain a way of life in local communities (top).
Welcome Return: When holding back rising waters has proven impossible along the Missouri River, the Mississippi River’s largest tributary, some landowners have agreed to move levees and let nature back in.
EC Caddo Lake is a natural treasure of lush bottomland forests and bald cypress swamps sustained by flowing waters along the border of Texas and Louisiana.
These same life-giving waters had a history of flooding towns and cities, which is what spurred the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a dam on the Big Cypress Bayou in the 1950s.
The dam also kept natural flows of rejuvenating water from reaching the lake and maintaining river habitats along the way.
It led to declines in native paddlefish and surrounding forests.
Thanks to the work of TNC’s Sustainable Rivers Program, a public-private partnership with the Army Corps, scientists are bringing a restoring flows to more closely mimic life-sustaining pulses.
These new flow patterns sustain ecosystems while still averting downstream flooding.
“When these infrastructure projects were built, we had no idea how they would affect fish and wildlife and ecosystems,” says Jim Howe, director of TNC’s Sustainable Rivers Program.
Today, this collaboration is helping the Army Corps essentially rewrite dam operations.
TNC and the Army Corps are now working together to rethink strategies for infrastructure on across the nation.
Yet new science published in that fewer than 20% of the world’s free-flowing rivers are safe from the pressures of development.
As The Nature Conservancy builds a global strategy to help governments and communities protect rivers, lakes and wetlands, new efforts in the Balkan region of Eastern Europe are proving successful.
“We’re thrilled to be a part of the first dam-removal projects in the Balkans–even small dams like these can have a profoundly negative impact on river health,” says Dragana Mileusnic, TNC’s Southeastern Europe program manager.
With hundreds, if not thousands, of new dams planned and under construction in this region of free-flowing rivers— sometimes known as the “blue heart” of Europe—TNC is also advocating for smart renewable energy and river protections.
Thanks to earlier efforts with partner WWF Adria and local communities, the Krupa River in Croatia and Zeta River in Montenegro now have permanent protections.
The Conservancy is also helping governments create similar permanent legal and community-led protections for rivers, lakes and wetlands.
Now, TNC is talking with officials in Gabon, the Amazon region and elsewhere to prevent declines in freshwater systems and protect the Earth’s fragile freshwater biodiversity.
—KIM NYE Rethinking Dams, Restoring a Lake TNC helps shift management plans for U.S. dams.
Last Free-Flowing Rivers In the Balkans, new partnerships are saving freshwater biodiversity.
Each year, after a six-month dry season leaves Botswana’s Kalahari Desert barren and parched, an almost-miraculous transformation occurs.
Floodwaters trickle and then surge into the heart of the desert, flowing from the distant headwaters of the Cubango-Okavango River in Angola’s highlands.
The water—roughly size of the river’s delta and beckons a migration of elephants, hippopotamuses, antelopes, cheetahs and more, numbering some 200,000.
This spectacle cannot happen without great quantities of water, yet more than dams, could divert water before it reaches the delta.
As the region draws more investment, TNC is working with the Angolan government and local communities to promote sustainable approaches to developing natural resources, ensuring that this breathtaking rhythm of water and life can continue.
In June an economic case showing how the Cubango-Okavango River Basin Fund could provide long-term financing to benefit the basin and the people who rely on it.
The Conservancy is also partnering with communities in Angola to help advance local pilot projects, such as improving fisheries and managing forests to boost livelihoods and help ensure clean drinking water for the region’s wildlife habitat across the Okavango basin.
Scan the code with your phone’s camera to see an update on the blue heart of Europe, or visit nature.org/balkans.
To Save the Waters and Wildlife of the Okavango Delta, TNC Starts at the Source Development of Angola’s highlands threatens the water source for a critical wildlife migration to the Kalahari Desert.
River Life: Croatia’s Krupa River is among Europe’s last wild and free-flowing rivers.
African Oasis: Saving the life-giving waters of the Okavango Delta calls for innovative approaches to sustainable development.
Partnering with communities across the globe to restore and improve management of working lands, support the leadership of Indigenous peoples as land stewards, and conserve critical forests, grasslands and other habitats rich in carbon and biodiversity.
Scan the code with your phone’s camera to learn more about wildlife in the Maya Forest, or visit nature.org/ savingmayaforest.
Try the Maya Forest in Belize, where this past April, The Nature Conservancy and partners announced the closing of a $remaining tropical rainforest in the Americas north of the Amazon.
The new Belize Maya Forest preserve connects an of protected land across Belize, Mexico and Guatemala—an area roughly the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined.
The network now protects more than a quarter of the entire carbon-rich Selva Maya forest, which is home to Central America’s largest remaining populations of jaguars, pumas and other increasingly threatened native cat species.
The region faces growing threats from industrial agriculture and illegal logging.
Now, the expanded conservation network is creating economic opportunities such as ecotourism and the sale of carbon credits—incentives for protecting threatened habitats and extensive Maya cultural sites.
A coalition of more than a dozen groups worked for years to conserve the area, including the Programme for Belize, the University of Belize Environmental Research Institute, the Bobolink Foundation, the Rainforest Trust, The Wyss Foundation and TNC.
The newly formed Belize Maya Forest Trust, directed by Dr. Elma Kay, a Belizean scientist, is leading the preserve’s long-term management.
Because the forest likely would have been cleared for agriculture if it hadn’t been protected, the Belize government agreed to support the sale of carbon credits from the new preserve, which will fund half the land purchase and establish a $15 million stewardship endowment.
of Belize’s Maya Rainforest A saved forest sequesters carbon, keeps cultural sites safe and ensures a future for a diversity of birds and mammals.
01 9 In 2021, a bold partnership of The Nature Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the World Wildlife Fund and ZOMALAB began taking aim at dramatically increasing the pace and scale of nature protection.
Called Enduring Earth, the partnership will work to help countries around the world conserve about lands, fresh water and oceans by 2030.
Enduring Earth is championing innovative and inclusive conservation strategies based on a proven approach called Project Finance for Permanence, which brings together Indigenous peoples and local communities, governments, philanthropists, public funders and nonprofits to fully fund conservation in perpetuity.
The partners have already conserved lands in Canada, Costa Rica, the Amazon, Bhutan and Peru through agreements that reinforce the rights of Indigenous peoples and create opportunities for sustainable economic growth.
Enduring Earth TNC joins a new collaboration to protect nature, work with local communities and sustain human well-being at a large scale.
A once again in the care of its longtime Indigenous stewards after a separation that lasted for more than two centuries.
“In a way, I see this island as a family member that was taken away and didn’t return but now is returned,” says Donald Soctomah, the historic preservation officer for the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township.

The goals are necessarily ambitious: In the United States, for instance, TNC aims to drive adoption of field-tested regenerative soil practices on growing row crops like corn, soybeans and cotton by 2030.

Many longstanding practices harmful to the environment are due for change, and TNC is investing in new and innovative entrepreneurial fixes—in the form of software and other high-tech tools—to help facilitate this critical transition.

Transforming Farms to Fight Climate Change TNC partnerships are rethinking agriculture to help grow sustainable yields, protect nature, address climate change and renew soil health.

ER Making sure the oceans thrive through new and better-managed protected areas, global-scale sustainable fishing, innovative financing and positive policy changes to how the world governs the seas.

Oceans Aquaculture is growing faster than any other sector of the global food system.

And the evidence shows that when done right, in the right places, some types of aquaculture can actually help restore natural systems.

Seaweed has become a top export for Tanzania, thanks in large part to farmers in the waters around the coastal island of Zanzibar.

This coastal aquaculture employs 80% of whom are women.

Despite the national importance of seaweed aquaculture, in recent years seaweed farmers have faced setbacks caused by the declining quality of seed stocks and the local warming of water, resulting in smaller harvests.

a range of partners—including agribusiness giant Cargill—have launched a training program to help seaweed farmers identify and implement more-sustainable farming techniques for their harvests.

Nearly are now working together with help from the program to improve harvests and care for the environment.

“As the world faces ecological challenges too big for any one nation to overcome alone, we must work together to ensure that nature and people can thrive everywhere,” says Lucy Magembe, TNC’s country director in Tanzania.

Sustainable Seas: Sada Hemedi Suleiman is a seaweed farmer and mother of four who lives in the village of Tumbe in Tanzania’s Zanzibar Archipelago.

Warmer ocean waters are transforming hurricanes into ever-more-powerful forces in the Caribbean, where storms are already capable of overwhelming communities with torrential floods and devastating winds.

“We have all seen the visible impacts of climate change before our eyes, such as more extreme weather and natural disasters, chronic drought and economic instability,” says Eddy Silva, TNC’s climate adaptation program manager in the Caribbean.

This natural alliance with IFRC is building long-term strategies for coastal protection in the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Grenada and Jamaica, with the potential to scale across the Caribbean and beyond.

It begins with geospatial mapping to help community leaders and researchers key in on problems like eroding coastlines, sea level rise and storm surges.

Then the project sets out a range of natural solutions.

Mangrove forests and sea grass hold firm against the forces of coastal erosion.

Coral reefs reduce wave energy while nurturing marine life near communities where fishing is a way of life.

At its core, the Resilient Islands model restores nature and safeguards places where people live and work.

Among all the fish in the sea, the Pacific skipjack tuna provides for the Earth’s third-largest seafood harvest, and nearly all of that catch is destined for cans on the supermarket shelf.

In fishing fleets haul in sustainable catches that also bring in a better price to support Pacific Island communities.

Pacific Island nations have for many years leased out the vast majority of tuna-fishing rights in their waters to international commercial fleets, providing a reliable revenue stream but also limiting their role in global seafood markets.

Thanks to a new joint venture called Pacific Island Tuna, the government of the Marshall Islands and TNC have a business model that puts the island nation in control of every link in the supply chain.

It also offers the nation a way to verify compliance with fair labor practices on fishing vessels and enact strict sustainability practices.

Plus, fishing profits will support climate-resiliency projects for communities vulnerable to rising sea levels.

“We are tapping into something big with this partnership,” says Mark Zimring, who leads TNC’s large-scale fisheries strategy.

—DUSTIN SOLBERG A Partnership to Protect Caribbean Communities TNC and the Red Cross/Crescent join forces to protect people and nature from climate threats.

Transforming Tuna Fishing Venture launched by TNC and the Marshall Islands boosts fisheries sustainability and keeps profits local.

The cerulean waters of Belize’s Caribbean coast are home to some of the nation’s most valuable treasures.

These waters support lush mangrove forests, vibrant reefs and extensive beds of sea grass, all of which provide critical habitat for threatened and endangered species, including West Indian manatees and hawksbill turtles.

To protect these natural wonders, the government of Belize signed an agreement with The Nature Conservancy in November that will generate an estimated $to protect 30% of its ocean waters.

The deal restructured approximately $financing for ocean conservation—as much as $180 million of new funding over the next 20 years.

With nearly half of all Belizeans living in coastal communities, the health of Belize’s marine ecosystems is of national importance.

“This deal is huge for Belize, but its impact extends far beyond us as well,” says Prime Minister John Briceño.

Saving for Nature: TNC’s NatureVest provided technical assistance when Belize sought to restructure debt and generate major new investment to protect gems like the Belize Barrier Reef.

S E E M O R E Scan the code with your phone’s camera to learn more about Belize’s ocean future, or visit nature.org/ belizebluebonds.

Ocean Wealth: An innovative business partnership with the Republic of the Marshall Islands means new fisheries sustainability and better financial returns for local communities.

ER Engaging in collaborative partnerships and promoting innovative solutions and policies that improve the quality and amount of water available in freshwater ecosystems and to communities.

Freshwater Springtime floodwaters of the Mississippi River and its major tributaries were once free to spread out across broad, low-lying floodplains.

In the however, towns and farms have sprung up along rivers that are now hemmed in by thousands of miles of earthen embankments called levees.

As climate change drives more destructive and unpredictable flooding throughout the Mississippi River Basin, many affected communities are rethinking how best to live with the river.

Following a devastating Missouri River flood in 2019, residents knew something had to change.

The river flooded evacuations and causing approximately $25 million in lost agricultural revenue.

Even as the community recovered, residents knew floodwaters would return someday.

At the community’s request, TNC brought together a large group of partners to rebuild the levee in its new location and led the effort to purchase the land for conservation.

Atchison County’s experience with reconnecting the Missouri River with its floodplain—once unthinkable to many—has become a practical option for river communities.

The Conservancy is continuing to work with communities to restore and reconnect 750,000 acres of river floodplains.

Scan the code with your phone’s camera and read more about the Mississippi River, or visit nature.org/ mississippiriverfuture.

are restoring parts of the river’s historic floodplain.

Fresh Catch: In the Mississippi Delta, the waters of places like Bayou Sorrel offer harvests of economically valuable fish species that sustain a way of life in local communities (top).

Welcome Return: When holding back rising waters has proven impossible along the Missouri River, the Mississippi River’s largest tributary, some landowners have agreed to move levees and let nature back in.

EC Caddo Lake is a natural treasure of lush bottomland forests and bald cypress swamps sustained by flowing waters along the border of Texas and Louisiana.

These same life-giving waters had a history of flooding towns and cities, which is what spurred the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a dam on the Big Cypress Bayou in the 1950s.

The dam also kept natural flows of rejuvenating water from reaching the lake and maintaining river habitats along the way.

It led to declines in native paddlefish and surrounding forests.

Thanks to the work of TNC’s Sustainable Rivers Program, a public-private partnership with the Army Corps, scientists are bringing a restoring flows to more closely mimic life-sustaining pulses.

These new flow patterns sustain ecosystems while still averting downstream flooding.

“When these infrastructure projects were built, we had no idea how they would affect fish and wildlife and ecosystems,” says Jim Howe, director of TNC’s Sustainable Rivers Program.

Today, this collaboration is helping the Army Corps essentially rewrite dam operations.

TNC and the Army Corps are now working together to rethink strategies for infrastructure on across the nation.

Yet new science published in that fewer than 20% of the world’s free-flowing rivers are safe from the pressures of development.

As The Nature Conservancy builds a global strategy to help governments and communities protect rivers, lakes and wetlands, new efforts in the Balkan region of Eastern Europe are proving successful.

“We’re thrilled to be a part of the first dam-removal projects in the Balkans–even small dams like these can have a profoundly negative impact on river health,” says Dragana Mileusnic, TNC’s Southeastern Europe program manager.

With hundreds, if not thousands, of new dams planned and under construction in this region of free-flowing rivers— sometimes known as the “blue heart” of Europe—TNC is also advocating for smart renewable energy and river protections.

Thanks to earlier efforts with partner WWF Adria and local communities, the Krupa River in Croatia and Zeta River in Montenegro now have permanent protections.

The Conservancy is also helping governments create similar permanent legal and community-led protections for rivers, lakes and wetlands.

Now, TNC is talking with officials in Gabon, the Amazon region and elsewhere to prevent declines in freshwater systems and protect the Earth’s fragile freshwater biodiversity.

—KIM NYE Rethinking Dams, Restoring a Lake TNC helps shift management plans for U.S. dams.

Last Free-Flowing Rivers In the Balkans, new partnerships are saving freshwater biodiversity.

Each year, after a six-month dry season leaves Botswana’s Kalahari Desert barren and parched, an almost-miraculous transformation occurs.

Floodwaters trickle and then surge into the heart of the desert, flowing from the distant headwaters of the Cubango-Okavango River in Angola’s highlands.

The water—roughly size of the river’s delta and beckons a migration of elephants, hippopotamuses, antelopes, cheetahs and more, numbering some 200,000.

This spectacle cannot happen without great quantities of water, yet more than dams, could divert water before it reaches the delta.

As the region draws more investment, TNC is working with the Angolan government and local communities to promote sustainable approaches to developing natural resources, ensuring that this breathtaking rhythm of water and life can continue.

In June an economic case showing how the Cubango-Okavango River Basin Fund could provide long-term financing to benefit the basin and the people who rely on it.

The Conservancy is also partnering with communities in Angola to help advance local pilot projects, such as improving fisheries and managing forests to boost livelihoods and help ensure clean drinking water for the region’s wildlife habitat across the Okavango basin.

Scan the code with your phone’s camera to see an update on the blue heart of Europe, or visit nature.org/balkans.

To Save the Waters and Wildlife of the Okavango Delta, TNC Starts at the Source Development of Angola’s highlands threatens the water source for a critical wildlife migration to the Kalahari Desert.

River Life: Croatia’s Krupa River is among Europe’s last wild and free-flowing rivers.

African Oasis: Saving the life-giving waters of the Okavango Delta calls for innovative approaches to sustainable development.

Partnering with communities across the globe to restore and improve management of working lands, support the leadership of Indigenous peoples as land stewards, and conserve critical forests, grasslands and other habitats rich in carbon and biodiversity.

Scan the code with your phone’s camera to learn more about wildlife in the Maya Forest, or visit nature.org/ savingmayaforest.

Try the Maya Forest in Belize, where this past April, The Nature Conservancy and partners announced the closing of a $remaining tropical rainforest in the Americas north of the Amazon.

The new Belize Maya Forest preserve connects an of protected land across Belize, Mexico and Guatemala—an area roughly the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined.

The network now protects more than a quarter of the entire carbon-rich Selva Maya forest, which is home to Central America’s largest remaining populations of jaguars, pumas and other increasingly threatened native cat species.

The region faces growing threats from industrial agriculture and illegal logging.

Now, the expanded conservation network is creating economic opportunities such as ecotourism and the sale of carbon credits—incentives for protecting threatened habitats and extensive Maya cultural sites.

A coalition of more than a dozen groups worked for years to conserve the area, including the Programme for Belize, the University of Belize Environmental Research Institute, the Bobolink Foundation, the Rainforest Trust, The Wyss Foundation and TNC.

The newly formed Belize Maya Forest Trust, directed by Dr. Elma Kay, a Belizean scientist, is leading the preserve’s long-term management.

Because the forest likely would have been cleared for agriculture if it hadn’t been protected, the Belize government agreed to support the sale of carbon credits from the new preserve, which will fund half the land purchase and establish a $15 million stewardship endowment.

of Belize’s Maya Rainforest A saved forest sequesters carbon, keeps cultural sites safe and ensures a future for a diversity of birds and mammals.

01 9 In 2021, a bold partnership of The Nature Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the World Wildlife Fund and ZOMALAB began taking aim at dramatically increasing the pace and scale of nature protection.

Called Enduring Earth, the partnership will work to help countries around the world conserve about lands, fresh water and oceans by 2030.

Enduring Earth is championing innovative and inclusive conservation strategies based on a proven approach called Project Finance for Permanence, which brings together Indigenous peoples and local communities, governments, philanthropists, public funders and nonprofits to fully fund conservation in perpetuity.

The partners have already conserved lands in Canada, Costa Rica, the Amazon, Bhutan and Peru through agreements that reinforce the rights of Indigenous peoples and create opportunities for sustainable economic growth.

Enduring Earth TNC joins a new collaboration to protect nature, work with local communities and sustain human well-being at a large scale.

A once again in the care of its longtime Indigenous stewards after a separation that lasted for more than two centuries.

“In a way, I see this island as a family member that was taken away and didn’t return but now is returned,” says Donald Soctomah, the historic preservation officer for the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township.