From 6 30 p.m. to midnight, Gowanus Warehouse, 69 Ninth Street, between the canal and Second Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn, (718) 541-4378, gowanuscanalconservancy.org; $60 for dinner and music and a general conservancy membership; $40 for dinner, dessert, two beers and music; $15 for music only.
Territoriality has emerged at various scales, including the homestead (e.g. erupting conflict among brothers, wives and sons after the death of the household head), parcel (border disputes among neighbours and friends), conservancy (exclusionary membership) and group ranch (exclusionary membership and the prevention of in-migration from outside areas) scale.
But as many as a third of the country's species are considered imperiled to some degree, according to the study, whose details are to be disclosed today in Washington by the Nature Conservancy, whose membership of more than a million makes it the nation's largest private conservation group.
By the mid-1980s and continuing through the '90s, the number of environmental advocacy societies radically expanded; groups such as Greenpeace, Environmental Action, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and the Nature Conservancy all experienced burgeoning memberships.
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Membership in the Nature Conservancy is a social calling card, and the creation of a conservation easement on personal property is a status symbol.
According to its literature, the Livestock Conservancy is funded by grants, sales of publications and promotional materials, membership dues and public donations.
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Marshlands Conservancy, 220 Boston Post Road.
In separate statements, BP America, ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar said Tuesday that they were discontinuing membership in the lobbying group, which includes corporate giants like Alcoa and DuPont, and influential environmental organizations like the Nature Conservancy and the Environmental Defense Fund.
