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Introducing Our Newest Grantees
Our Winter 2021 grant cycle is complete! We have awarded a total of $938,000 to 21 grassroots organizations working to protect North America’s wild places.
Priority Campaign Spotlight: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
In the years to come, I’m certain we’ll look back on January 2021 for its significance in the campaign to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It wasn’t always pretty, but at the end of it all… I think recent events have set us up for success in the months to come.
Priority Campaign Spotlight: The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
The vast interconnected waterways and forests of the United States’ most visited Wilderness are at risk from a proposed copper mine on waterways that flow through the heart of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Voyageurs National Park.
Introducing Multi-Year Grants
For the first time since our inception in 1989, we are changing how we invest in key partners working to protect our most iconic landscapes.
Our 2021 Advocacy Priorities
These are precedence-setting campaigns. Protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Boundary Waters and Bears Ears means putting Indigenous rights over fossil fuel development, recreation and wildlife habitat over extraction, and intrinsic value over short-term gain.
The Conservation Alliance (At Home) Breakfast: Back to Bears Ears
Over the past four years, there have been many attacks on America’s public lands, but one of the most egregious was the reduction of Bears Ears National Monument in December, 2017. The fate of this remarkable landscape has tossed back and forth in ever-changing political winds.
2020 Year in Review
In 2020, Conservation Alliance funding helped 12 projects cross the finish line. These projects permanently protect 11,594 acres (including 483 giant sequoias!), 1.3 river miles, and one climbing area.
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at The Conservation Alliance: Update #1
We’d like to share an update about our journey to advance justice, equity, diversity and inclusion – or JEDI – at The Conservation Alliance.
We Need Your Help to #ProtectTheArctic
Today, the Trump administration announced its plan to hold a lease sale for rights to drill in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.