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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:13:21 -0700
Subject: Nature Conservancy Nature News, August 2000
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NATURE CONSERVANCY Nature News for August 2000
Welcome to Nature News - our once a month peek
into the state of the planet. Learn what lands,
waters, plants and animals The Nature Conservancy
is working to save and where to find more information.
For general information about The Nature Conservancy
please visit our Web site: http://www.tnc.org
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CONTENTS
1. Campaign for Conservation
2. Stand by Your Land
3. Last Frontier's New Frontiers
4. Buffalo Seeks Conservationist
5. Fast Fact - Dog Days of Summer
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1. Campaign for Conservation
From the Maine woods to South Pacific tropical atolls,
The Nature Conservancy is working with local partners
to preserve 200 high-priority Last Great Places
through the Campaign for Conservation. This $1 billion
effort will create a blueprint for conservation action
in the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific.
To learn more, visit:
http://www.tnc.org/campaign/campaign_nav.html
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2. Stand by Your Land
Three million acres of open space disappear each year
in the United States. In its efforts to protect
biodiversity in such disappearing lands and waters,
The Nature Conservancy is partnering with land trusts.
The Nature Conservancy is combining its landscape-scale
conservation resources, with land trusts' concerns for
open-space.
To read more, click:
http://www.tnc.org/magazine/story_nav.html
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3. Last Frontier's New Frontiers
The Alaska Conservancy's Great Places in the Great Land
campaign recently received a $1 million gift from Phillips.
The gift will help the Alaska Conservancy produce a
conservation blueprint to be used for land-use choices
that benefit both the ecological and economic health of
the last frontier state.
To find out more, go to:
http://www.tnc.org/success/index_nav.html#12
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4. Buffalo Seeks Conservationist
Six feet tall, sharp beard, stylish shaggy brown coat,
likes wildflowers, eats 30-50 pounds daily. Meet
Thunderfoot. He is one of 1200 bison on the Conservancy's
Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Oklahoma. The bison are
key players in efforts to preserve and restore one of
the last great expanses of American prairie. You can
help by adopting a bison, (just don't take it home).
For more information and to adopt online, click:
http://www.tnc.org/involved/bison/index_nav.html
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5. Fast Fact - Dog Days of Summer
The steamy months of July and August are traditionally known
as the dog days of summer and named for Sirius, the Dog Star.
Sirius, one of the night sky's brightest stars, rises and
sets with the sun beginning in early July. Ancient people
believed the radiant star was the source of the hot days
at summer's end.
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