Doris Duke Launches Land Trust Climate Initiative
These days, to be a conservation funder is to be a climate change funder. At least that ought to be the case. Because how do you conserve a wetland that’s drying up? How do you protect a dwindling species when it’s fled from its changing habitat?
Large green groups and funders are lumbering beasts themselves, though, so change has come slowly in terms of breaking down the historic divisions between climate and conservation work.
This is tricky terrain for nonprofits to navigate, given that conservation efforts have often drawn supporters from across the ideological spectrum, while the climate issue has been deeply politicized. Keeping diverse donor bases happy while addressing the growing effects of climate change on many ecosystems and species isn't always easy...