The Nature Conservancy mission is to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on earth by protecting the lands and waters. The Nature Conservancy of Virginia has over 30,000 members and owns over 30 nature preserves across the state. The newsletter contains news and events of the Virginia chapter.

Operation Wallacea is a UK based group of scientists who have established a conservation strategy with outposts in 6 areas of the world which they consider to be "biodiversity hotspots". A rainforest area of the Island of Buton, off the south coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia is the locus of this video. Operation Wallacea's scientists have been active here for a number of years, operating by a 4 stage process in which they survey the level of biological...

"Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is that conservation is ready for revolution. Heated debates about the rise of the Anthropocene and the current 'sixth extinction' crisis demonstrate an urgent need and desire to move beyond mainstream approaches. Yet the conservation community is deeply divided over where...

Argues that many of the world's plants and animals are in danger of becoming extinct because of hunans' misuse of the earth's resources and describes the species which are most at risk.

"In this essay collection, David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature"--

Traces the conservation movement by ranchers, farmers, river workers, and fishermen who in spite of separating themselves from political environmentalism are helping to restore and protect America's grasslands, wildlife, wetlands, and oceans.