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S E E M O R E Scan the code with your phone’s camera to learn more about Belize’s ocean future, or visit nature.org/ belizebluebonds.

Scan the code with your phone’s camera and read more about the Mississippi River, or visit nature.org/ mississippiriverfuture.

The Conservancy is also helping governments create similar permanent legal and community-led protections for rivers, lakes and wetlands.

—KIM NYE Rethinking Dams, Restoring a Lake TNC helps shift management plans for U.S. dams.

Scan the code with your phone’s camera to see an update on the blue heart of Europe, or visit nature.org/balkans.

Partnering with communities across the globe to restore and improve management of working lands, support the leadership of Indigenous peoples as land stewards, and conserve critical forests, grasslands and other habitats rich in carbon and biodiversity.

Scan the code with your phone’s camera to learn more about wildlife in the Maya Forest, or visit nature.org/ savingmayaforest.

The newly formed Belize Maya Forest Trust, directed by Dr. Elma Kay, a Belizean scientist, is leading the preserve’s long-term management.

In recent years, members of Indigenous tribes in Maine, conservation groups and land management agencies have come together in an initiative known as First Light to build relationships and work toward the return and sharing of land.

This is an important step forward in the tribe’s efforts to restore sovereignty and the right to be Passamaquoddy people, says Soctomah.

This project could add new protected areas and improve management on existing spaces to conserve nearly as well as improve opportunities and resource rights for 10 million people.

During this challenging year, the priority focus of our management team was twofold.

We focused our efforts and resources on accelerating our conservation plans, enabled by leading-edge financial, information technology, and investment management tools and strategies.

future gifts, collateral received under securities lending agreement, notes receivable, right-of-use assets, and deposits on land and other assets.

and active management decisions by our team of investment professionals.

“The Conservancy does a really good job of solving the habitat issue, both from a global, big-picture perspective and at the local level,” says Connie.

Relying on Connie’s decades of experience as a certified public accountant, the LaFonds decided the best way to support TNC’s future work was through a bequest and a deferred gift annuity.

The excitement of a new administration was followed by destabilizing attempts to overturn a fair and legal election.

With the Biden administration signaling a commitment to scientific integrity from day one, UCS laid out a path for restoring the role of science in federal policymaking.

The previous administration had sidelined science to an unprecedented extent and worsened the growing climate crisis.

Just seven days after taking office, President Biden demonstrated his strong support for science by signing a memorandum on scientific integrity and science-based decisionmaking that adopted many recommendations from a scientific integrity task force, establishing a scientific integrity review across agencies, designating chief scientific officers and scientific integrity officers in all science agencies, and ensuring that the membership of scientific advisory committees is both diverse and adequately represents the voice of independent scientists with relevant expertise.

Meanwhile, the UCS Science Network continues to play an important role in bringing independent scientific and technical expertise to bear on public policy.

other UCS supporters hold elected officials and redistricting authorities accountable for ensuring fair representation for all. After the hottest year—and decade—on record, voters in the 2020 presidential election sent a clear message that the United States must finally take broad, dramatic action to address the climate crisis.

A Transformative Climate Action Framework: Putting People at the Center of Our Nation’s Clean Energy Transition will guide our strategy and analysis going forward.

In the Pacific Northwest, Washington State took a significant step toward reducing its vehicle emissions when it passed a bill establishing a clean fuel standard for the state—a victory that capped seven years of work by UCS.

The analysis also exposes the fact that many farmworkers have little or no recourse from working in dangerous conditions because their health and safety is routinely discounted by both employers and the legal system.

UCS combined this science with action, actively pushing for protections from extreme heat such as an occupational safety standard that includes contributions from UCS scientists and reflects the positions of the Good Food for All coalition that UCS coordinates.

In September, the Biden administration responded, announcing a “coordinated, interagency effort” to counter the threat of extreme heat, including a Department of Labor initiative to protect workers. Big Ag’s practices lead to soil erosion, water pollution, unsafe working conditions, and a lack of opportunity in rural communities.

This degree of power makes it difficult to hold the company accountable for serious harms.

UCS, in partnership with the Food Chain Workers Alliance, brought attention to the issue and won stronger federal protections for frontline food workers (though meat and poultry workers remain at risk).

TAKING ON “BIG AG” Since the policy has paved the way for increasingly bigger farms and food processors—with bigger problems as a result.

Our work around policy has grown exponentially over the last decade; our brand is proven, trusted, and respected.

We’ve also had a wake-up call that has energized our work around equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging, and building a culture of workplace excellence.

She is the first woman to lead Audubon in the organization’s history.

We need bedrock protections in place to prevent future losses at this scale, and Audubon’s Bring Birds Back policy agenda has been crafted with this goal in mind.

Fund to the tune of $funds to address deferred maintenance projects at the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Bureau of Indian Education schools.

policy agenda at the local, state, and federal levels with on-the-ground conservation, and has delivered meaningful results.

Through Audubon’s Conservation Ranching program, we work with ranchers to develop and implement bird-friendly land management plans that protect and renew grassland habitats.

We will continue pushing lawmakers to take even bolder steps, such as the introduction of a national Clean Energy Standard.

Jamaal explains, “We offer conservation, climate, policy advocacy—all under one roof.

Because coordinators are hired from within their respective local communities, they are well positioned to develop and lead programs that resonate with young people and their families where they live.

Outside of leadership development, the values of EDIB are increasingly reflected in Audubon’s conservation and policy goals.

in city decision-making related to urban, greenspace, and infrastructure planning.

These young professionals can then launch their careers at Audubon in one of our many fellowships, apprenticeships, or internships that are designed to provide the experience they will rely on to advance and lead throughout their professional lives— at Audubon or wherever their careers may lead.

BIRDS BEYOND BORDERS An effective conservation strategy means going wherever birds lead us to defend the places they need throughout their full annual cycle.

10,500+ Hudsonian Godwits will be protected thanks to a Conserva Aves land management agreement in Chile.

Alongside our core partner organizations—which include BirdLife International, American Bird Conservancy, and RedLAC (Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds)—we will leverage our expertise in policy, science, and fundraising to help local organizations that are working to establish land protections and management in these key areas.

Canada also committed to protecting waters by 2030 and passed legislation giving Canada’s Indigenous Peoples a powerful and influential voice in land-management decisions.

With this holistic view of bird conservation, Ben is a lead funder of Conserva Aves.

We collaborate with partners to scale nature-based solutions, foster grassroots actions on climate change issues, and provide conservation policy and capacity development.

assistance for our projects; a legal division, Earth Island Advocates; a youth leadership program, New Leaders Initiative; and an award-winning magazine, Earth Island Journal.

Our legal arm, Ear t h Island Advocat es, filed lawsuits to prevent unlawful logging on federal land and to stop corporate greenwashing, and obtained settlements that protect wildlife.

Our news magazine, Earth Island Journal, kept up its bold reporting on a wide range of environmental issues both in the United States and abroad, including the ways in which climate change is already manifesting around us, how regulatory systems often prioritize corporations over people, and how brave environmental activists are fighting powerful interests to preserve their lands and communities.

Public Lands Media continued reporting on topics critical to the preservation of public lands, such as wildfire ecology, livestock grazing, and forest service policies.

Advancing Wild Her it age?s work of advocating for the protection of primary forests in the United States and throughout the world, the project?s Chief Scientist, Dominick DellaSala, has been a sought-after spokesperson on the issue for several major media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.

CalCAN also won improvements that will make it easier for small and limited-resource farmers to apply to an on-farm water-conservation grant program, developed new partnerships to advance agricultural policy solutions to wildfire mitigation, and continued the growth of a national network of farmer-centered organizations focused on passing healthy soils policy.

Com m unit y Resilience With its activities rooted in the One Health approach, a framework embraced by leading global health organizations that recognizes the interconnection of people, animals, plants, and their shared environment, EcoVet Global has redoubled its commitment to preventing the next pandemic by addressing animal health and welfare needs (domestic and wildlife) as a key component to community and ecosystem resilience.

Acting in kinship and building community in order to seed solutions based on respect, honor, and mutual care, Seeding Sovereignt y launched the Community Defense and Land Liberation program to get security gear and essential legal self-defense training to frontline environmental protectors; filed a landmark case against the federal government on a right to wilderness; established a program to assist in the healing process of residential-school survivors amid the recent tragic discovery of thousands of murdered Indigenous children during the last century; created Medicine Wheels to meet the mental health needs of Indigenous and BIPOC youths who have been worn down and isolated by the pandemic quarantine; and opened Ancestral Acres Farm and Garden to grow food sovereignty and distribute health nutrition to food-insecure communities.

The project has succeeded in blocking numerous permits and has brought international attention to the issue through widespread media coverage.

The ALERT Project prevailed in its lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a landmark decision requiring the EPA to update its decades-old regulations on the use of toxic chemical dispersants in oil spill responses.

We must solve the democracy crisis before we solve the environmental crisis.

With the combined knowledge and expertise of our grassroots project network and the pro bono resources of law firms, legal clinics, and nonprofit organizations, Earth Island Advocates is achieving tangible results for the environment.

In fiscal year filed lawsuits to prevent unlawful logging on federal land and to stop corporate greenwashing, and obtained settlements that protect wildlife.

Through our research, programming, land management, trail work, advocacy, and more, we protect and speak up for the places we love.

AMC took over management of the Reeves Meadow Visitor Center and Palisades Information Center from the Palisades Interstate Parkway Commission to provide essential information about recreation opportunities throughout the greater New York Region.

$funding to Maine State Parks for capital projects The ‘Protect the View’ campaign in greater Philadelphia The rise in outdoor recreation paired with the ongoing crisis of climate change highlights the importance of AMC’s conservation advocacy work across the region.

Croo Bridge Replacement, Cardigan, NH: This bridge is dedicated to Andrew Norkin (our late Director of Trails and Recreation Management), and many AMC friends, coworkers, volunteers, and partners helped make this project a success in his memory.

Their findings provide science-supported action items, allowing AMC to lead by example.

Warming Winters on Mount Washington AMC’s most recent study of the Pinkham Notch and Mount Washington area indicates that warming winter temperatures lead to less snow—since AMC began recording snowpack in the depth declined by 50 percent, and total snowfall declined 25 percent.

Given the many financial and operational challenges, AMC has much to be proud of in terms of mission delivery and comes out of the year in a position of strong fiscal health thanks to sound management and the generosity of donors at every level.

We tested breakthrough interventions, launching a public policy program in the United States and advocating for fish in the United Kingdom.

For decades, this has been the egg industry’s standard practice.

But over the past five years, THL has rallied our movement to demand that companies put an end to this cruel practice.

That’s why THL works to hold companies accountable to their cage-free commitments and ensure that they comply with state laws banning intensive confinement—freeing hens from tiny barren cages once and for all.

When companies fall behind, THL uses highly public pressure campaigns to hold companies accountable for profiting off animal abuse.

Our goal is to change this: we imagine a world where the considerable grassroots power of the animal movement is aligned around an achievable list of policy aspirations; and where these incremental legislative changes are won and then scaled over the years.

Our new Public Policy program will focus on organizing and empowering a national alliance of local and state-level animal advocacy groups and uniting them around legislative agendas that include animals raised for food.

In our first staff, began to create the internal structures needed for regranting and policy work, and we mobilized our supporters around key issues like successfully strengthening Massachusetts’ law banning the intensive confinement of animals.

Because the corporate culture and legal climate in Japan are prohibitive for pressure campaigns, THL generates media coverage and builds positive relationships with companies to raise the profile of the cage-free issue and drive corporate action.

Alongside their corporate outreach, THL Japan is serving as a Core Member of the country’s first cage-free standard development committee.

Thanks to THL MX’s work to hold companies accountable for their cage-free commitments, five companies—including Grupo Bimbo, the largest bakery and Grupo Alsea, the largest restaurant operator in Latin America—agreed to begin reporting cage-free progress publicly.

enable egg producers to be audited and regulate standards for cage-free eggs in the country, where corporate transparency and accountability are low.

the issue was added to the legislative agenda.

Dave’s leadership has always inspired me, and I plan to embody his courage, focus, and visionary approach, as well as my own commitments to candor, transparency, and continuing to cultivate THL’s culture; it is what makes this organization so special and why I’m so proud to work here.

Secure more global corporate commitments to eliminate cages for billions of egg-laying hens and hold companies accountable to their commitments.

our partnership with The Melanin Collective, to further our commitment to creating an equitable and inclusive workplace, as well as the costs for a comprehensive compensation study, to ensure that our staff are paid fairly.

The numbers above are preliminary and are subject to change upon audit.

real policy change at the corporations that profit from factory farming cruelty, and that policy change truly delivers for the animals.

VISION WCS envisions a world where wildlife thrives in healthy lands and seas, valued by societies that embrace and benefit from the diversity and integrity of life on Earth.

guide our conservation action, and inform policy decisions to scale up our impact.

The collapse of biodiversity, the climate crisis, and the pandemic have made that abundantly clear.

WCS is leading the way with science-driven fieldwork and policy efforts across 60 countries.

But there is hope: elephant populations have stabilized or increased in areas throughout Africa where WCS has ensured long-term, effective site management and the necessary resources, anti-poaching systems, and training.

And we seek for all governments to close all markets and trade in ivory, strengthening our push for the EU, Japan, and other nations to shutter their legal domestic ivory markets and end their commercial ivory trade—as the US, China and the UK already have.

Ultimately, our goal is to expand and strengthen management of protected areas where elephants occur now, as well as in some regions where they used to occur, so their populations can fully recover, rewild, and thrive.

Two Years, Zero Poaching We are taking our successful co-management approach and applying it to other key elephant landscapes, most notably in Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve, which contains the country’s largest population of elephants.

WCS has successfully stemmed the crisis in Niassa, when elephant poaching was rampant; we have now seen more than two years with zero poaching incidents in the Reserve.

WCS signed a new agreement with the Government of Mozambique in 2020 and is now drafting a 10-year conservation management plan for Niassa.

Elephant populations have stabilized or increased in areas throughout Africa where WCS has ensured longterm, effective site management and the necessary resources, antipoaching systems, and training.

Today, with our government partners, WCS protects more big cat habitat and has more specialists on the ground than any other organization; we lead long-term programs at countries across Africa, Asia, and the Americas.