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CREE will work individually with donations at the level of 'Sponsor' and above to tailor your gift to your specific interest and project. The highest donor per year will receive the honor of the title of 'Aldo Leopold Land Steward', in recognition of his/her actions in memory of the great conservation leader whose revolutionary views towards taking a land ethic beyond protected area boundaries greatly enriched the field of ecology and human-environment relations. For more information, or to make a donation to a CREE project, contact us at:
contribute@conservationforpeople.org| Founders: | $10,000 or greater |
| Visionaries: | $5,000 to $9,999 |
| Patrons: | $2,000 to $4,999 |
| Benefactors: | $1,000 to $1,999 |
| Sponsors: | $500 to $999 |
| Friends: | Up to $500 |
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Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm. - Aldo Leopold
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Man shapes himself through the decisions that shape his environment. - Rene Dubos
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Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be saving our own. - Norman Myers, A Wealth of Wild Species, 1983
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Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. - Thomas E. Lovejoy, Time, 13 October 1986
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To save every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. - Aldo Leopold, Round River, 1953
MoreThe waters around the Babuyan Islands and Bohol sea are one of the key marine biodiversity areas in the Philippines, and home to such marine megafauna as whales, dolphins, whale sharks, and sea turtles. Yet in the past few years unsustainable and destructive extraction of marine resources have put these areas at risk. Recognizing the [...]
This spring CREE and its Cameroonian staff have now began the first phase of the expansion of its snail program thanks to funding from the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund. The goal of this project is to stop the killing of wild snails and other bush meat such as primates through offering domestic protein alternatives to [...]
CREE is pleased to share the latest news from its Sri Lanka project, which has just finished reporting on the implementation of a variety of income generating activities for villagers to reduce pressure on the Bar Reef coral reef ecosystem. This work was funded by the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN). This project takes [...]
CREE is pleased to join a new 2010 United Nations partnership with the goal of raising awareness of the biodiversity conservation crisis worldwide. 2010 is now the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), and this movement highlights the role biodiversity plays in our everyday lives, including the provisions it offers for fuel, medicine, and food. CREE’s [...]
Kenya’s Dunga Wetlands project is a creative farmer-led initiative that seeks to improve crop yields on select farms in the Dunga Wetlands of Lake Victoria, Kenya. Through eco-san toilet technology, which utilizes human waste as a fertilizer, farmers can grow more agricultural crops in less space, preventing the need for further colonization of land near [...]
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Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines supports CREE’s Philippines Work
The waters around the Babuyan Islands and Bohol sea are one of the key marine biodiversity areas in the Philippines, and home to such marine megafauna as whales, dolphins, whale sharks, and sea turtles. Yet in the past few years unsustainable and destructive extraction of marine resources have put these areas at risk. Recognizing the [...]
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