It may seem odd that a scientist from the Mississippi River, where Asian carp are wreaking havoc on the ecosystem, traveled half a world away to help save these same species in another river. But to Brian Ickes, it is a historic opportunity....

The Conservancy’s North America Region recently completed the “Ecoregional Roll-Up”— putting all of our conservation priority areas and targets into one database that can easily be...

Whether you get your thrills from crunching numbers or not, "biodiversity" has been core to conservation for decades. This debate in the December 2010 issue of BioScience highlights road-blocks and oasis along the...

Imagine you’re flying home from a vacation, and the person in the next seat strikes up a conversation. You find out she guides a new foundation, and as you converse, she becomes more and more interested in The Nature Conservancy and what...

In a recent Iowa State University poll of Iowa farmers, 78 percent said they should be doing more to reduce the amount of nutrients and sediment entering waterways and lakes — and 58 percent believed that nutrients from Iowa farms...