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loud protests or boycotts. It has built a unique niche in the conservation community by approaching its mission from a free-enterprise perspective, which means using market mechanisms to encourage American business to offset emissions of carbon that contribute to global warming and working with major lumber purchasers like Home Depot to buy wood that has been legally harvested and environmentally certified. It encourages tax incentives to landowners to keep open space from being subdivided and important wildlife habitats from being ruinously fragmented.
Across the environmental spectrum, there are environmental groups finding passionate confrontation and obstruction as the necessary means of drawing public attention to their cause. But The Nature Conservancy stands a giant apart, having earned central respect for successfully searching down practical teamed up solutions with business, government, other environmental organizations and landowners to seemingly intractable challenges which no one else was simply in a position to make large and small things happen. The bottom line is that the problems facing this living
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