17 Facts About Nature Conservancy

Nature Conservancy is a global environmental organization, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, United States.

Nature Conservancy developed out of a scholarly organization initially known as the Ecological Society of America .

In part, the Post alleged the Nature Conservancy had, time and again, bought ecologically significant tracts of land, attached some development restrictions and then resold the properties to trustees and supporters at greatly reduced prices.

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 to employees.

The Nature Conservancy launched an independent review that issued its final report in 2004, calling for sweeping reforms aimed at making the Nature Conservancy a model of ethical standards for nonprofit organizations.

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Nature Conservancy's expanding international conservation efforts include work in North America, Central America, and South America, Africa, the Pacific Rim, the Caribbean, and Asia.

Nature Conservancy United was founded as a Canadian charity in 2014, building on decades of conservation in Canada.

Nature Conservancy United supports Indigenous leadership, sustainable economic development, and large-scale conservation, primarily in the Great Bear Rainforest, Clayoquot Sound, the Northwest Territories, and northern Manitoba.

In December 2015, The Nature Conservancy announced the finalization of the first ever debt swap in Seychelles aimed at ocean conservation.

Nature Conservancy's Plant a Billion Trees campaign is an effort to plant one billion trees by across the globe in forests with the greatest need.

Nature Conservancy has over one million members across the world as of 2021.

Nature Conservancy has ties to many large companies, including those in the oil, gas, mining, chemical and agricultural industries.

Writer and activist Naomi Klein has strongly criticized The Nature Conservancy for earning money from an oil well on land it controls in Texas and for its continued engagement with fossil fuel companies.

The Nature Conservancy responded by arguing that it had no choice under the terms of a lease it signed years prior with an oil and gas company and later came to regret.

In 2020, Bloomberg published an article claiming that some of the companies that purchase carbon credits from The Nature Conservancy were purchasing carbon credits for forests that did not need protection.

In 2021, The Nature Conservancy partnered with Amazon to compensate local farmers for restoring and protecting rainforests in Para, Brazil.

In 2022, a group of smaller non-profit organizations signed an open letter to the Conservancy's CEO, Jennifer Morris, charging that The Nature Conservancy was overly supportive of logging interests and the use of tree planting as a natural climate solution.