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THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
Established 1951
35 countries
Regions:
North America
Latin America
Asia/Australia
Africa
Europe
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THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
Science-based
Partnerships
Land protection: 50 million ha
River protection: 8,000 km
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THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
Great Rivers
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Painting by: Evelyn De Morgan. 1898.
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“Their flavor was excellent – superior in fact, to that of
any fish I have ever known. They were of extraordinary
size – about as large as a Columbia River salmon –
generally from two to four feet in length.”
-- Col. John C. Freemont, describing Pyramid Lake
trout from his 1840s surveys of the Great Basin
Freemont wasn’t exaggerating
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April 26th 1869 Reese River Reveille (Austin, NV) “…trout would teem in this brook were it not for the destructive practice of the settlers in the canyon in irrigating their lands…. It has already thinned the number of trout in the brook, and if persisted in will exhaust the stock…”
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Remember the good ol’ days…?
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Painting by: Evelyn De Morgan. 1898.
Curse Breaker #1:
Capture the imagination and connect people to nature…
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“You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble
thing than you, brother.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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Angling comprises many different cultures, which can all change…
Cultural value: quantity of catch
Cultural value: quality of experience
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Painting by: Evelyn De Morgan. 1898.
Curse Breaker #2:
Build an economy that values nature…
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Recreational angling by the numbers…
Scope Worldwide ~ 10% of adult population in developed nations (Cooke & Cowx 2004) Australia ~19.5% in Australia (Koehn & Todd 2012)
Economic Impacts Annual US expenditure $US 41.8 billion (US Fish & Wildlife 2011) 22 European countries $US 10 billion (Cowx 1998) In comparison, 2012 US commercial fishery exports were valued at $US 5.12 billion and imports at $16.7 billion… (NOAA 2012)
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Sustainability…
Economic Social
Ecological
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A tale of two rivers…
Soča River, Slovenia Neretva River, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Ecology depleted fishery
Economics economic hardship
Society resource exploitation
Ecology healthy fishery
Economics local prosperity
Society proper stewardship
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Painting by: Evelyn De Morgan. 1898.
Curse Breaker #3:
Present viable alternative futures…
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• Ogooue River, Gabon
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Conservation blueprints
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Installed capacity (GW) projected to approximately
double by 2050
These two scenarios provide the same level of energy development (67% of basin inventory), but Scenario 7 (right) maintains nearly twice as much connected channel network with 5% greater overall cost.
(CFE, CONABIO, TNC 2014)
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Offsets or compensation – Costa Rica (IDB, IFC, and Costa Rica)
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Re-engineering a basin: Penobscot River (Maine, USA)
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Re-engineering a basin: Penobscot River (Maine, USA)
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The future of the Balkans…
• Capture the imagination
• Balkan region is a key area for freshwater
systems—a true “hot spot”
• TNC is happy to offer assistance
• Working in partnerships
• A CHANCE TO GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST
TIME!
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Hvala, Faliminderet, Danke, Thank you!
Google: “The Nature Conservancy—the power of rivers”