Existing conservation land does not adequately protect rare plants and animals. Biodiversity hotspots are feeling the pinch. Growth and development threaten the most biologically rich areas of the state, including Great Bay, the Ossipee Pine Barrens, and the Saco River basin.
Golden opportunities exist.
Currently, important opportunities exist for biodiversity conservation at the landscape scale in the upper Connecticut River Valley, the Monadnock Highlands, and other areas with large, unfragmented forest blocks.