Recently we spoke with him about his continuing love affair with cranes and his foundation's conservation efforts around the world.
Protected area networks are the foundation of conservation, even in northern Canada where anthropogenic impact on the landscape is currently limited.
The government of southern Sudan, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the United States Agency for International Development have worked with local stakeholders to establish a foundation for conservation and natural-resource management as part of the region's development strategy.
These types of initiatives are essential for biodiversity analysis, such as the one at hand, and thus become the foundation for conservation planning.
Furthermore, the expansion and intensification of agriculture and changes in global climate patterns threaten the foundations of conservation biological control in future agroecosystems.
Other organizations -- foundations, NGOs, conservation organizations, civic groups -- they all play a role and are important partners because they have the technology and the information and research as to how programs are benefitting the communities that come up with sanctuaries.
The lease the group signed with the conservation foundation expires in September, and the foundation does not want to renew it because the park is in the middle of a sensitive, protected area, a spokesman said.
The bride's father is president of Butler Conservation Fund, a New York-based foundation for environmental conservation and historic preservation.
Though Mr. Fairey still owns Peckerwood, the Garden Conservancy helped him establish a garden conservation foundation in 1998, to preserve the collections and to continue plant exploration, which is crucial to the diversity of species here.
Still, Mr. Nolan and a handful of other residents thought it seemed pointless to ring up the local conservation foundation for this simple reason: The neighbor who was planning the development was a trustee with the foundation, and had recently been commended for his efforts on behalf of the environment.
