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Nature Conservancy of Canada
Carbon Management and Societal Benefits
Nature Conservancy of Canada
• promoting partnerships, private and public
Who Are We?
• national not-for-profit
• celebrating our 40th Anniversary
• leading role in preserving wilderness lands
• action-oriented, non-confrontational • science-driven, business-minded
Nature Conservancy of Canada
Nature Conservancy of Canada
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Partnership Project Areas
Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie PreserveYellow Quill Mixed Grass Prairie
Parkland Habitat PartnershipPembina Valley Provincial Park
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Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve
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Northern Tall Grass/Aspen Parkland Ecoregion
Conservation by Design
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Tools for Conservation
•Fee Simple Purchase
•10 year lease
•Conservation Easement Agreement
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Nature Conservancy of Canada
Yellow Quill Mixed Grass Prairie Project
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Parkland Habitat Partnership
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Pembina Valley
Provincial Park
Pembina Valley Provincial Park
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Benefits –Local/Short Term
•Financial
•Awareness
•Recognition
•Personal Satisfaction
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Long Term/Large Scale Benefits:
•carbon fixing
•maintain natural systems - research
•maintain natural systems – aesthetics
•preserve options for future generations
-Accomplishment of Long-term Protection of Native Remnant Areas
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SUMMARY
1. Carbon Management through Conservation has many Societal Benefits
-development of unique synergistic partnerships
-local benefits to landowners
-world scale benefits to planet