Early Beginnings
The Nature Conservancy was incorporated as a nonprofit organization this year.
What is 1951?
The Caribbean Challenge Initiative, a strategy developed to conserve coastal environments by uniting governments, international cooperation agencies, and the private sector, was launched in this year.
What is 2008?
This 1973 congressional legislation drove TNC's initial foray into policy work.
What is the Endangered Species Act? (Alt: What is the ESA?)
In 1975, geologist Wallace Broecker coined this term in a landmark paper on climate, introducing the phrase into mainstream scientific and public lexicon.
What is "global warming"?
CLUE CREW! Rachel Ralls
This NAR/NARO initiative advances inclusive access, preserve visitor activation, stewardship, data modernization, and portfolio optimization.
What is Leveraging Our Lands?
CLUE CREW! Jan Glendening
This founding member of TNC's Maine chapter published the groundbreaking 1962 environmental text Silent Spring.
Who is Rachel Carson?
TNC and its partners have spent decades identifying this network which guides NAR’s land protection work to ensure the protection of biodiversity now and as the climate changes.
What is the Resilient Connected Network? (Alt: What is the RCN?)
CLUE CREW! Andrew Kambour
In 2016, TNC developed this strategy to test and adapt local climate actions across the U.S.
What is the 50-state Climate Change Strategy?
This bird can reach speeds of about 75 mph during a hunting dive before accelerating much faster in its full stoop.
What is a peregrine falcon?
This small but mighty NARO team in the Conservation and Science department has 4.3 members - one in Rhode Island, one in Florida, one in Oregon, one in Canada, and 30% of a person in California.
What is the Conservation Resource Team?
This 60-acre preserve in Bedford, New York, was TNC's first land acquisition.
What is Mianus River Gorge?
In 2016, TNC’s Canadian affiliate Nature United worked with First Nations to help conserve 19 million acres of coast north of this Island.
What is Vancouver Island?
In 1990, TNC opened its first office outside of the western hemisphere in this location.
What is Palau?
(Alt: Koror, Republic of Palau, or Micronesia)
In traditional anniversary gifts, the 75th year is marked by this gemstone.
What is a diamond?
(Alt: Diamond anniversary)
BEAM, a workshop series hosted by NARO’s Human Rights & Equitable Conservation team, is an acronym that stands for this phrase.
What is Building Equitable Mindsets and Actions?
TNC conducted its first controlled burn in this US state in 1962.
What is Minnesota?
CLUE CREW! Phil Tabas
This public policy initiative enacted in 1980 spurred exponential growth in acres of land conserved in the US.
What are tax deductions for conservation easements? (Alt: “tax credits” for “easements”)
CLUE CREW! Freya Sargent
These two laws, with a combined $570 billion for climate, conservation and clean energy investments, represent the largest collective U.S. action on climate and conservation ever.
What are the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act?
(Alt: IIJA/IRA)
Legendary musician and frontman Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, who is also known by this moniker, turned 75 on October 2.
Who is Sting?
In 1989, TNC's first land return rematriated 40 acres of land in this US state.
What is Wisconsin?
Robert E. Jenkins served as TNC's first person in this scientific leadership role beginning in 1970.
What is Science Advisor? (Alt: “What is Science Director?”)
By 2030, TNC aims to conserve this many hectares (or acres) of healthy land?
What is 650 million hectares?
(Alt: What is 1.6 billion acres?)
Known as the "lady who saved the prairies," this philanthropist became TNC's first Land Guardian in 1978.
Who is Katherine Ordway?
This international treaty signed by 184 countries and the EU went into effect in 1975 to protect over 40,000 species of animals and plants.
What is The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species [of Wild Fauna & Flora]? (Alt: CITES (sigh-tees))
Members of this NARO team recently co-authored “Not all mining is equal: The impact of lithium production technology on land, water, and emissions footprints through 2040” in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
What is NARCAST?
(Alt: North America Science, NAR Science, NAR Conservation and Applied Science)