Nature Conservancy News

The event's sponsoring partner was Tiffany & Co. Foundation, and the event was organized by The Nature Conservancy , with support from Virgin Unite, the non-profit entrepreneurial foundation of the Virgin Group, and the Carbon War Room.

Aw, check out Macklemore and Ryan Lewis talk about growing up in Seattle's outdoors for the Nature Conservancy.

Charlottesville is celebrating the completion of the largest environmental restoration initiative in the city's history.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - The Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability , housed at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business , held its fifth annual research conference at the Berkeley-Haas School of Business on Monday, 29 April through Wednesday, 1 May.

The rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction on Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the Channel Islands off Southern California.

After a big easy sweep across a flat-water pool on the upper Hudson River, Allison Buckley made sure she chose a better channel through the oncoming rapids than the previous canoe that hung up on a submerged rock.

In a bid to safeguard biodiversity and the Caribbean's tourism-based economy, regional political leaders and corporate executives will gather Friday on billionaire Richard Branson's private island with the aim of protecting 20 percent of the region's coastal resources by 2020.

Most of us who live in major metropolitan areas know that urban water supplies are dwindling.

Any West Virginian interested in creating a competitive, self-sustaining economy should read Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive By Investing In Nature.

In a bid to safeguard biodiversity and the Caribbean's tourism-based economy, regional political leaders and corporate executives will gather Friday on billionaire Richard Branson 's private island with the aim of protecting 20 percent of the region's coastal resources by 2020.

For the first time, the public can visit the 1,244-acre Cibolo Bluffs Preserve in Southwest Comal County from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Draftfcb S.F. won the creative account for The Nature Conservancy in California , in the group's first outreach to a marketing communications partner.

The new prepaid service GIV Mobile launches Wednesday. The service, which basically resells T-Mobile network service, is unique in that it allows customers to designate up to three charities as recipients of monthly charitable contributions.

The Indiana Natural Resources Commission has approved a 342-acre nature preserve in the tallgrass prairie region of the state's northwest corner.

And you can get a first-hand look at why that is, when San Juan Historical Museum sponsors a trip to the island and wildflower tour, Sunday, May 19, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Managed by the Nature Conservancy since 1979, Yellow Island is covered with more than 50 species of wildflowers and features open fescue meadows.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada is purchasing a 72-hectare site in Nova Scotia that includes five kilometres of shoreline along the Pugwash River and the tidal Canfield Creek.

The Adirondack Park Agency has drafted seven options for classifying 47,000 acres of state land in the central Adirondacks, including the first phase of former Finch, Pruyn and Co.

The Brookfield Renewable Energy Group and The Nature Conservancy have come to an agreement that will preserve about 4,000 acres of land in East Tennessee.

Beginning at 9:30 a.m. Monday, May 13, Penn State and The Nature Conservancy will be executing a prescribed burn at The Arboretum at Penn State , weather permitting.

The idea of picking up an iPad to commune with nature sounds counterintuitive-until you've swiped and tapped through an issue of Nature Conservancy magazine , which mails to the environmental conservation organization's 650,000 members on a bimonthly basis.