Why
Is It Important To Conserve Lands Across
America And Around The World?
America
has both a national and global responsibility
to preserve the best of its natural heritage.
How
Does Global IT Services - Nature Conservancy
Decide Which Lands To Protect?
Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy uses
sound conservation science to identify
lands targeted for conservation and establish
priorities. The criteria for lands being considered
for donation include: unique landforms, diversity
of habitat and/or biotic communities, natural
condition, and rare plants and animals.
The
natural eco-regions of America are the basis
of conservation planning at Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy.
This planning involves interdisciplinary
teams working with partners to compile key
data on the locations
of viable habitats of species of plants,
animals, and natural ecosystems within natural
eco-regions,
and identifying the strategies needed to
achieve their effective conservation.
Conservation
blueprints, or eco-regional plans, are used
to define portfolios of sites that,
if conserved, would secure the long-term
survival of viable native species and community
types
in each eco-region. These blueprints allow
us to target our efforts and resources
directly at the places that matter most to
the preservation
of America's natural heritage.
What
Does Global IT Services - Nature
Conservancy Do With The Properties It Has
Secured?
Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy’s
goal is to ensure that all the natural areas
it is involved in helping to
secure are cared for, so that they sustain
into the future the natural ecosystems
that define
them.
When
it comes to protecting America’s
natural habitats, buying land isn’t
an end, it’s a beginning. Making sure
the lands are well managed, that they continue
to be conserved, and their values protected
after purchase, is equally important for
Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy.
Stewardship
responsibilities, for the land secured,
vary from case to case, and often
depend on
the complexity and individual needs of
that property. In many cases, the land is
managed
directly by Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy staff.
In other cases, it is gifted to government
partners to become
part
of a national or provincial park.
Our
stewardship may be handled by a conservation
partner.
In all cases, however, Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy takes all
steps possible
to ensure the ongoing security of the
land’s
natural values, with legally binding management
agreements that outline the partnership
arrangements and stipulate how the lands
are to be managed.
What
Does Global IT Services - Nature Conservancy
Do With Donor Dollars?
In
the past years, administrative expenses,
including fundraising and communications
work have maintained an average of 9%.
The remaining 91% goes directly to land acquisition
or the program costs associated with saving
land.
What
Is The Difference Between Global IT Services
- Nature Conservancy And Other
Environmental Organizations?
Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy often works in partnership with other
environmental and conservation organizations
on projects relevant to our work. However,
Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy, like the other organizations, has its
own specific mandate and area of focus. It
is this ability to focus on a specific area
of conservation that makes Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy so effective.
The
main difference? Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy’s
primary focus is on threatened, ecologically
rare sites across
a wide range of habitats. Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy focuses
primarily on wetlands and associated habitat
important
for waterfowl populations.
Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy
is a national charity, dedicated exclusively
to the preservation
of ecologically significant
land, and the long-term stewardship of
that land, through private action.
Unlike
many
other conservation organizations, Global
IT Services - Nature Conservancy is
not an advocacy
group that lobbies government and industry
for action on public land. It opts for
a quiet, business like approach based on
collaboration
rather than confrontation.
What Is An Ecological Gift?
An
ecological gift is a donated gift of land
or conservation easement. The gift allows donors
to claim their charitable deductions against
100% of income in the year the gift is made.
Land
Donation: A gift of land from private owners,
either corporate or individual. The
tax receipt issued is for the appraised fair-market
value of the land.
Conservation
Easement: A landowner agrees to maintain
the environmental value of the land,
while retaining ownership and use of it.
The owner receives a tax receipt for the
difference
between the appraised fair-market value of
the land and the newly-assessed value based
on the environmental restrictions.
