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Adirondack Mountain Club. African American Environmentalist Association. African Wild Dog Conservancy. Alaska Conservation Foundation. Allegheny Land Trust. Alliance for Climate Protection — see Climate Reality Project, The. Alliance to Save Energy. American Bird Conservancy. American Farmland Trust.
The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is an international conservation organization created with the intent of preserving Africa's wildlife, wild lands, and natural resources. [1] Founded in 1961, the organization helped establish conservation programs at the College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka in Tanzania, and the Ecole de Faune de ...
A sustainable wildlife enterprise is a farming system incorporating sustainable use of wildlife to promote conservation. In Australia, landholders work together across boundaries to harvest or make use of (ecotourism) naturally occurring wildlife populations such as the kangaroo sustainably. Important to the concept is that biodiversity and ...
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. Urban Bird Foundation - to protect, defend, rescue and conserve bird life. Western Pennsylvania Conservancy - 200,000 acres (800 km 2) Whaleman Foundation - protection of cetaceans. Wild Salmon Center - identifies and protects the best salmon ecosystems of the Pacific Rim.
The conservation of bison in North America is an ongoing, diverse effort to bring American bison (Bison bison) back from the brink of extinction. Plains bison, a subspecies (Bison bison bison), are a keystone species in the North American Great Plains. Bison are a species of conservation concern in part because they suffered a severe population ...
The early national conservation movement shifted emphasis to scientific management which favored larger enterprises and control began to shift from local governments to the states and the federal government.(Judd) Some writers [who?] credit sportsmen, hunters and fishermen with the increasing influence of the conservation movement.
The Snow Leopard Trust is the largest and oldest organization working solely to protect the endangered snow leopard ( Panthera uncia) and its habitat in 12 countries of Central Asia. The trust is a non-profit organization with its headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The present total population of snow leopards in the wild is estimated at ...
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to manage and protect natural resources, including animal, fungus, and plant species as well as their habitat for the future. Conservationists are concerned with leaving the environment in a better state than the condition ...