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

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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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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