Why is there an American Nature Conservancy?

The National Nature Conservancy (TNC) is one of the most important nature conservation international organizations in the world. TNC was founded in 195 1 and its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia, USA. The Nature Conservancy of the United States is committed to protecting the land and waters with important ecological value in the world, so as to maintain the natural environment and enhance human welfare.

The purpose of the Nature Conservancy of the United States is to protect important land and waters, so that animals, plants and natural communities with global biodiversity can survive and reproduce forever; The task is to protect animals, plants and natural communities representing the biodiversity of the earth by protecting the land and waters on which animals, plants and natural communities depend; The goal is to work with partners to ensure that at least 10% of each major habitat type on the earth will be effectively protected by 20 15 years.

As a charitable organization, the association has been highly praised by charitable supervision groups: the association has reached all the accountability standards of charitable organizations of the American Council for the Promotion of Business; The American Charity Research Association rated the Nature Conservancy as an "A-class charity organization"; The extraordinary performance of the association has been appreciated by the "charity leader" evaluation agency and was rated as "excellent/qualified in the industry"; In its annual survey report on the largest charity in the United States, Forbes magazine rated the fund-raising efficiency of the association as 89%.

In the past half century, the Nature Conservancy of the United States has pursued the principle of non-confrontation, and gradually developed a comprehensive, strategic and practical protection method based on science: nature conservation system engineering. In this way, the land landscape, marine landscape, ecosystem and biological species with the highest priority protection value are selected.

The Nature Conservancy of the United States has joined hands with partners to protect nearly 50 million hectares of biodiversity hotspots in more than 30 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Asia-Pacific region and Africa. The Association's protection work in the Asia-Pacific region involves China, Australia, Micronesia (Federated States of), Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Palau and Solomon Islands. Thanks to the strategy of cooperation rather than confrontation, as well as the scientific principles and methods guiding conservation actions, after more than 50 years of unremitting efforts, the association has become one of the top ten charitable organizations in the United States and ranks among the forefront of non-profit non-governmental organizations for ecological environmental protection in the world.