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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="font-size:12pt"><SPAN>The Resilient and Connected Network is a proposed portfolio of climate-resilient conservation sites designed to sustain biodiversity and ecological functions under a changing climate. TNC scientists—in collaboration with over 280 other scientists from agencies, academia and non-profit organizations across the U.S.—identified and mapped these sites over a 10-year period using public data available at state and national scales.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="font-size:12pt"><SPAN>The Network is a starting point for conversations with local communities, indigenous tribes, land trusts, agencies, corporations, and funders on how to coordinate conservation efforts to increase our collective impact and sustain nature. Resilient lands and waters may be conserved by a wide range of measures from good land stewardship, to other forms of private land conservation, to outright fee or easement acquisition by various levels of government.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |