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PARTNERS IN CONSERVATION PMS 542 PMS 7519 PMS 7519 2014 ICCF’s Partners in Conservation network 02 INTRODUCTION: IT’s about people is unsurpassed in its scope of projects 06 CONSCORPS and capacity to promote conservation 08 COLLABORATING WITH POLICYMAKERS and sustainable resource utilization 18 PARTNERS around the globe. 18 3M 64 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation 20 Abercrombie & Kent Philanthropy 66 National Geographic 22 African Wildlife Foundation 68 The Nature Conservancy 24 American Forest & Paper 70 Nestlé Association 72 Ol Jogi 26 AngloGold Ashanti 74 Oserian 28 Barclays 76 Pacific Gas & Electric 30 Bumble Bee Foods 78 Prudential 32 Cheetah Conservation Fund 80 Qualcomm 34 The Coca-Cola Company 82 Rainforest Alliance 36 Corporate Council on Africa 84 Rare 38 The Dow Chemical Company 86 Rare Species Fund 40 ExxonMobil 88 Ringing Bros. and Barnum 42 FMC & Bailey 44 Food & Agriculture 90 Safari Club International Organization of the U.N. Foundation 46 Fort Worth Zoo 92 SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment 48 Frankfurt Zoological Society 94 Tudor Investment Corporation 50 Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves 96 Unilever 52 Global Environment Facility 98 Volkswagen Group of America 54 Hewlett-Packard 100 The WILD Foundation 56 International League of 102 Wilderness Foundation Conservation Photographers 104 Wildlife Conservation 58 International Paper Society 60 Island Conservation 106 Wildlife Without Borders 62 Mars, Inc. 108 The Walton Family Foundation Introduction 2014 PARTNERS IN CONSERVATION: It’s ABOUT PEOPLE he tsunami of December 26, 2004, was one of the most Unmeasured changes to ecosystems can shake the balance between destructive natural disasters in recent history, killing disease carriers like mosquitoes and ticks and the natural systems that Tsome 230,000 people and causing more than $15 billion keep them in check. As much as a quarter of global disease, and 13 in damage in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Studies million deaths a year, is due to preventable environmental causes. The following the devastation showed that areas with intact coastal forests outbreaks of malaria, Lyme disease, the Hendra virus, and babesiosis were strikingly less damaged than areas without trees, and that the have all been tied to unsustainable modifications to natural systems. destruction of coastal forests which had been converted to shrimp As our understanding of nature’s value deepens, communities and farms had led to substantial preventable damage. businesses are finding that it costs far less to make high-priority The following year, the U.S. coastal states’ own experience with conservation investments than to suffer the costs of losing these vital Hurricane Katrina underscored the lesson that the conservation of ecosystem services. Green infrastructure - the natural systems of vital ecosystems is essential to economic growth, social stability, and forests and wetlands, coral reefs, fisheries, and other ecosystems that sustaining human welfare. purify our air and water, protect our coastlines, produce food and The links between healthy natural systems and our own well-being We are in the midst of a conservation provide other vital functions extend beyond protection from natural hazards. The vast majority revolution that is changing the way - often costs less to build and of medicines are derived from wild plant and animal species. It is governments, communities, and maintain than traditional man- estimated that more than one-half of all medicines developed today made gray infrastructure. For are based on natural sources like rainforest plants and marine sponges. businesses protect natural capital and example, New York City, which Most of the global population relies on medicines derived from nature, promote economic growth. draws 90% of its water from the and one-third of all prescription drugs contain an active ingredient Catskill Mountain watershed, discovered in wild plant or animal genetic code. saved more than $5 billion by restoring and conserving the wetlands and forests around the watershed instead of building a traditional water filtration plant. 2 // International Conservation Caucus Foundation 2014 Partners in Conservation // 3 Partners // The Nature ConservancyIntroduction The loss of ecosystem services can also exacerbate pressures caused A growing number of NGOs and government agencies are focusing by migration, social and political tension, or ethnic rivalries, and can on conservation projects that deliver the most economic and social lead to unrest and violence. Over the past 60 years, 40 to 60 percent of benefit to people and communities. This transition has helped capture conflicts have had links to resource scarcity, and the same link doubles tremendous public interest and support for conservation and shed the risk of a conflict relapse within five years of settlement. Military the perception that environmental initiatives are necessarily nature- The only sustainable and humanitarian responses, while important, often only address the versus-people or nature-versus-development. The future of the surface of the issue; for the developing world, securing the natural conservation conservation movement lies in embracing a theme of protecting nature resource bases of local economies is necessary to ameliorate drivers programs, many for people, not from people. of conflict and prevent the need for costly military and humanitarian now argue, are ones The private sector is a vital partner responses. The United States and its allies therefore have a that align with of governments in cultivating responsibility to share their resource management experience and people’s well-being The private sector is a vital partner of healthy ecosystems to ensure the expertise with developing countries, strengthening their conservation and material needs. governments in achieving balanced growth sustainability of economies and institutions and helping to ensure the sustainable development of that cultivates healthy ecosystems. safeguard human well-being. To their economies. this end, ICCF brings together We are in the midst of a conservation revolution that is changing leaders at the highest levels of government, business, and the NGO the way governments, communities, and businesses think about community so the public and private sectors can share information natural wealth (i.e., natural resource wealth management™). As the and better leverage one another’s efforts to address threats to our global population steadily climbs and global demand for food, water, natural security. Our Partners in Conservation collaboration consists and energy are set to double by 2050, there is widespread public of more than 50 NGOs and businesses working together to address key support for initiatives to prevent resource stress. Programs that seek matters of international conservation. to conserve natural resources are increasingly recognized as sound This portfolio showcases projects of each of our partners that investments, rather than simply philanthropy. promote conservation as a means of bettering the lives of people around the world. 4 // International Conservation Caucus Foundation 2014 Partners in Conservation // 5 Partners // The Nature ConservancyConsCorps 2014 PARTNERS IN CONSERVATION: CONSCORPS he International Conservation Corps (ConsCorps) is ICCF’s PHOTOS TOP: Officials from Saint Vincent its allies’ immense knowledge and experience in protected areas program that provides nations with top-level conservation and the Grenadines with ConsCorps and natural resource management to strengthen capacity in local veterans examine the threatened expertise, delivered in the most effective and cost-efficient institutions to better steward natural wealth and lay the foundations of T Cumberland Forest Reserve. // View of manner. ConsCorps leverages the conservation experience and the proposed marine park which will be sustainable prosperity. best practices developed by the United States to build capacity in the gateway to Kingstown, the capital developing nations to ensure sound management of their natural city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. ConsCorps has already begun a first round of projects to share the best resources. // Retirees from the U.S. National Parks practices and advances in techniques the U.S. has gained over the past Service, U.S. Forest Service, and the 100 years through natural resource management agencies. As decision makers grapple with unsparing budget cuts that can provincial park system in British Columbia, Canada. seriously impair the United States’ efforts to promote stability and PARTNERS: In the Bahamas, two three-person ConsCorps teams of U.S. prosperity, our nation’s leaders realize they must embrace innovative U.S. Bureau of Land Management National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, and Parks Canada and ideas to achieve national ends with limited resources. The U.S.’s 21st- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service BC Parks veterans have laid the groundwork for the expansion and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Retirees century foreign aid strategy will have to do more while spending less, enhancement of the Caribbean nation’s national parks system. Association requiring American agencies to leverage allies, enable international After performing an assessment of the current state of the Bahaman U.S. Forest Service partners, and coordinate with private sector leaders. Through its U.S. Geological Survey Patuxent protected areas system, ConsCorps and Bahaman government officials International Conservation Corps (ConsCorps)