We are trying to positively influence the community towards wildlife conservation, because we believe the success of conservation work can only be possible if the communities can believe in it. Lewa Wildlife Conservancy now is working with 15 schools. All these schools are government schools.
are on board, we've got a perfect opportunity of recreating buck what used to be there. There is a conservancy now in Southern China that has been modeled on Lewa.
are on board, we've got a perfect opportunity of recreating buck what used to be there. There are conservancy groups all over Africa that come and visit and spend two or three weeks at a time training with our people, including Chege.
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. So the Nature Conservancy gets most of its money from individual donors. We have about a million members around the world and they send in from 50 dollar memberships to much,
Don't ask me why. I'd been to the Turtle Conservancy , in Ojai, and met a man named Ross Kiester, who said, I swear to god, I found tortoise droppings
I did that all over. And there's a website called Livestock Conservancy , and they're a group that they try
But these problems are all across the continent. The problem with having rhinos on your conservancy , it's very expensive. You have to have 24 hour a day armed guards.
Mostly, you get your friends with you. And when you sneak into the conservancy , you take the gun apart, and each person has a different part of the gun. You ride your motorbike in, you put the gun together, you find your animal, shoot it.
Lions. Who doesn't love lions? This was shot in a private conservancy , Old Yogi, in Kenya.
My name is Ginger Thompson. I'm with Lewa Wildlife Conservancy here in the US, and I'm the executive director. I'm here with my colleagues Geoffrey Chege, who's our chief conservation officer, who flew in from Kenya a couple of days ago, and John Battelle, who's
We now have 11,000 square miles of land in conservation management, and we're hoping to go much further. We are a 62,000-acre conservancy , so we're a place. But we're also a much larger organization.
Certainly I feel it and love it. The success of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy is unquestionable. You only have to look at the thriving populations of wildlife, particularly of two notable highly endangered species, and the harmony with the surrounding communities
It is this kind of cooperation that builds on the close alliance and symbiotic relationship between Lewa and the people who reside just beyond the borders of the conservancy . Lewa's vision extends well beyond the horizon, recognizing that the welfare of local communities is integral to the welfare of the ecosystems on which
are on board, we've got a perfect opportunity of recreating buck what used to be there. spatially for rangers in a conservancy .
each others houses, they were threatening one another in very serious sort of ways. And through the work of the Nature Conservancy , but also because of an enlightened leader, a local leader in this community, they created a marine protected area between these two islands. So they took one piece of ocean and they actually said it was "taboo." That was the word they used. The word "taboo" is actually a Solomon word. It's actually pronounced "tamboo" and
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. So that's how the Conservancy , it raises money the old-fashioned way through members like you and like others like you.
Not very many people sort of take that into consideration. This is a reticulated giraffe at a private conservancy , Old Yogi in Kenya. Giraffe populations are in trouble in Africa.
on our US board and actually about to become vice president of our US board. We're here to talk to you today about Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and really a much bigger movement that we're the engine room for in Northern Kenya in an effort to take a very large area of land and put it into conservation management,
So what our task has been with that of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and the UNDP-- the United Nations Development Program-- And that's why this balance of this conservancy -type initiative, which Namibia is very famous for, is important.
relatives as I helped them kick off what's now 50 challenger centers around the globe that are kind of space science education facilities where they have shuttle simulations that students go through and groups like the Nature Conservancy just happens to be a charity that I particularly fond of that I also partnered with in my mission that I'll tech to talk about but for many years even though I was backing all this and
But we're aligned to the same desired end result, and that's beautiful. Some of the bigger organizations, Nature Conservancy , World Wildlife Fund, and Wildlife Conservation Society, are good at it.
I'm going to show a short video of Lewa to give you the feel right now. In June of 2013, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy was inscribed as an extension of the Mount Kenya World Heritage Site, a testament to the years of dedication in creating this unique catalyst and model for community-based conservation.
And their balanced for a good reason. The second one I would just talk to you is a little bit the Ocean Conservancy .
And suddenly, they were disappearing and no one knew exactly why. Well, one of the biologists, Lois Ramire, who runs the Nature Conservancy project there, showed me on her computer screen, a Golden Eagle chick that they photographed. We love it. I mean, it's just, it's this big. It's got claws. It's a Golden Eagle. We love Golden Eagles.
relationship to it. Okay? So fast forward to today. Today the Nature Conservancy 's releasing this new book called The Atlas of Global Conservation and there's some copies in the back, but it kinda looks like this. And this is the first time I get to hold it up and say, "Here's where we're releasing it." So Google Headquarters here becomes one of the spots that we release this book.
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. So we own the license, the Nature Conservancy does, but then we put them back out and just give it to them under conditions where they can fish more sustainably using line methods
the right time to sacrifice our Global Leadership on the economy to pay attention to the environment you know it's never really the right time to do um recently departed but he was was also involved with the nature conservancy he
Don't ask me why. And I met another man, also through the Turtle Conservancy , who said, I swear to you, I saw bite marks that were from a tortoise on a cactus up on that mountain.
As ranching expands, zebras are now cohabiting with cows and sheep and all sorts of things. And so when you drive through Africa, you'll see a lot of zebras outside the conservancy areas, hanging out with cows and all kinds of stuff. But zebras are a-- who love zebras?
Yeah. That gets into proportional representation. You will be voting with the Dems or Greens or Libertarians or Republicans or the Nature Conservancy or the gun lobby.
working regularly with the government-run Kenya Wildlife Service in joint operations. With this expertise and the reservoir of wildlife within Lewa, the Conservancy has huge potential to act as a supply and source of animals for new community conservancies.
We have about 100,000 acres of land. We got a very large piece of land that we manage as part of the Waterberg Conservancy . And it's a buffer to the wildlife park.
and she did a lot to keep me grounded. She's the one that got me interested in conservation and I went on-- she served on the board of the Nature Conservancy , was a vice chairman and chairman of the New York and Illinois chapters and got me involved there, got me involved in many of the things we've done.
This is the Diller Von Furstenberg sun deck between 14th and 15th Street, looking out to the river. And it's really this public/private partnership and it was modeled after the Central Park Conservancy .
He owned this island. Now there's a main ranch and there were some outlying ranches and this was used for sheep. They would sell the wool and they would sell lambs and so on. Gary Stanton, on his death, ceded it to the Nature Conservancy , 90 percent of the island. The other ten percent is a National Park right now. This was owned by a different family. But it's all now trying to be restored. And what I've written about, 'When the Killing's Done', is this restoration process. It began in 2001 on Anacapa Island. What I'm gonna
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. for that salamander needs to live in. So the Nature Conservancy and other local land trusts are working all over California to protect that salamander, the tiger salamander.
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. So this takes lots of money. How does the Nature Conservancy fund these projects?
Don't ask me why. So in 2019, myself, a ranger from the Galápagos National Parks, and a scientist from the Galápagos Conservancy all teamed up.
Don't ask me why. Scientists from Yale, incredible genetic scientists, funded by the Turtle Conservancy , did officially match the DNA from Fern, our beautiful girl--
This is a quick summation of what we've been able to achieve in 25 years at The Amazon Conservation Team. Because when we started up, the big organizations you all know, like World Wildlife Fund and Nature Conservancy were focused on protecting biological diversity in rain forest. But I saw that nobody was working with the indigenous peoples to protect their culture or their rain forest.
Of the over 600 black rhino in Kenya, a figure currently rising at around 8% annually, 45% have found them private sanctuaries very much modeled on Lewa. A large part of the success is thanks to the extensive security setup on the conservancy . In the Lewa Security Department, we have well over 150 people, 30 armed Kenya police reservists.
are on board, we've got a perfect opportunity of recreating buck what used to be there. When I started looking at where I can have impact, Lewa as an institution, as a conservancy , has logistical capabilities, they have access on the ground,
So what our task has been with that of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and the UNDP-- the United Nations Development Program-- And we're starting to see huge numbers of wildlife species starting to come back because of the kind of management that we've been dealing with within our conservancy .
Jane Goodall, who you know through her work with chimpanzees, John Sawhill out of the Nature Conservancy , and
Delicious, fat, creamy, ripe, little piglets. The pigs, how had the pigs gotten there? Well, the original sheep ranchers had some pigs and the pigs got loose. Now 150 years later, they were feral. Wild boars all over the island. Wouldn't be so bad except that, except for the sheep. The sheep had to be removed because once it became a National Conservancy and a National Park Service, the sheep were changing the ecology. As you know, sheep eat everything, right down to the root. So, there were no longer any young trees, or saplings.
Sanjayan: Thanks, Alan. Very kind of you. Alright guys, thank you. And thanks very much for having me out here, particularly John Fitch for being persistent--persistent enough to navigate the Nature Conservancy and figure out how to invite us and who to invite.
do, do, do, do, Sanjayan: Alright. So now that's all you have to remember and then you can go away. Well thanks for havin' me here again. My name is Sanjayan, I'm the lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy . I have some ties to California. I went to my graduate school here at UC Santa Cruz and about oh eight or nine years ago I joined the Nature Conservancy . And eventually had
Well thanks for havin' me here again. My name is Sanjayan, I'm the lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy . I have some ties to California. I went to my graduate school here at UC Santa Cruz and about oh eight or nine years ago I joined the Nature Conservancy . And eventually had this great job where I travel around the world, learn about our projects, and try to bring the best ideas we have in science and in how we do our work to audiences like you around
So these paintings are found all over Australia and very recently we started a project in Australia. We started our program there. And our Program Manager who's Australian went out there and he was talking to some aboriginal people and he said, "Well I'm here and I'm here one of the things the Nature Conservancy does we help you map your environment. We help you place nature within context of your lives. We call it the habitat assessment."
you eventually get to this village. And in the village you meet the chief. And this is Chief Tak who's sitting here. He's a Wahea; he's a Dayak tribesman. And this is a colleague of mine from the Nature Conservancy who's translating for me. And I make all the pleasant small talk, "How you doin'?" and he tells me about how wonderful the forest is and why it's so important and how when