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Rampant growth poses the top threat to land and other natural resources that demand protection, Phemister said.
“The encroachment of people on the natural environment is becoming greater and greater, which is why we need to identify the last great places and try to protect them before they’re swamped with us,” Schuyler said.
Established in 1951 in Washington, D.C., the conservancy’s mission “is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.”
Worldwide, the nonprofit organization has protected 117 million acres. It has protected more than 15 million acres in the United States and more than 230,000 acres in Virginia.
A conservancy map of Virginia shows a series of green “blobs” that identify “the last, best examples of forests” the organization
See CONSERVE, Page B8
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