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NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, John A. Paulson and the Paulson Family Foundation announced a gift of $100 million to the Central Park Conservancy to sustain the fundamental role of Central Park as one of New York City's leading cultural institutions and the world's most extraordinary public park. Mr. Paulson's donation is the largest gift ever made to the Central Park Conservancy. It is also the largest gift to any public park and one of the largest ever made to a New...

Statewide website puts source-to-tap info at fingertips for residents of 492 cities & towns SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Nature Conservancy in California today unveiled a groundbreaking study and online resource that for the first time offers millions of Californians a one-stop website where they can learn the sources and levels of protections of their drinking water. The "Where Does California's Water Come From?" study is the most extensive...

CHERRY HILL, N.J. and PORTLAND, Maine, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank(®), today announced that it plans to protect approximately 214 acres of critical forest habitat as part of the bank's TD Forests program (www.td.com/forests). In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, the bank will protect oak-hickory and hemlock-northern hardwood forests in New York's Finger Lakes region, and oak-hickory-cabbage palm and upland mixed forests in Central...

TORONTO, Oct. 2, 2012 /CNW/ - Earth Rangers and Holcim (Canada) Inc., announce a three year partnership to support Earth Rangers' Bring Back the Wild program. Bring Back the Wild is Earth Rangers' kid powered conservation program that educates children and their families about the importance of biodiversity and partners with them to raise funds to support the acquisition and restoration of endangered habitats across Canada.  Funds raised also support Earth Rangers' School...

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The St. Simons Land Trust announced today the closing of the organization's purchase of Cannon's Point, an undeveloped, 608-acre wilderness tract located on St. Simons Island,?Georgia. The sale transfers ownership of Cannon's Point from Wells Fargo to the Land Trust, which intends to manage the land as a publicly accessible wilderness preserve that will be protected by a conservation easement. The St. Simons Land Trust is a...

CRANBROOK, British Columbia, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Nature Conservancy of Canada ("NCC") and The Nature Conservancy ("TNC") today announced that, through a collaboration of public and private partners, more than $10 million has been raised to help remove the biggest ecological threat to British Columbia's Flathead River Valley -- a spectacular wilderness area that straddles the Canada-U.S. border. Thanks to the generous funding contributions from the Government of...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- California conservation and wildlife organizations announced today that the Central Valley Flood Protection Board has adopted the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan. The plan establishes a framework for flood management throughout the Central Valley for the coming century. It focuses on improving flood protection for urban areas and prioritizes expansion of flood bypasses along the lower Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers to improve flood...

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Alliance for Global Conservation (AGC) applauded the introduction of the Global Conservation Act (GCA) in both the Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. The nonpartisan bill was introduced by Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Tom Udall (D-NM) as well as U.S. Representatives Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) and Russ Carnahan (D-MO). The bill, which has 33 additional co-sponsors, provides for the first-ever comprehensive international...

TORONTO, June 27, 2012 /CNW/ - The 2012 Charity 100 raking in the summer issue of MoneySense Magazine once again ranks the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) as Canada's top environmental charity. For the third year in a row, MoneySense recognizes NCC as one of Canada's most responsible and efficient charities, with an overall grade of A+. "NCC is very proud of our standing A-grade from MoneySense Magazine," said John Lounds, president and CEO of the Nature Conservancy of...

WASHINGTON, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, more than 500 organizations, businesses and individuals signed a letter asking congressional leaders not to further cut funding to the Conservation Title of the Farm Bill. Noting that conservation programs already have been significantly cut in recent years and will bear more than their fair share of deficit reduction in the Farm Bill as currently drafted, the letter asks Congress to "hold the line" on conservation funding at...