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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
MorePromoting sustainable protein sources in communities around Mount Cameroon National Park. Mount Cameroon, which rises 4090 meters from the sea, is located on the western coast of Cameroon in the Southwest Province and is considered a ‘hotspot’ of biological diversity. The lower parts of the mountain are covered by dense equatorial rain forest with diverse [...]
Dunga Wetland Alternative Livelihoods Project: Addressing Human-hippopotamus conflict. The wetlands of Dunga on the shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya have fantastic touristic potential. Yet these lands are also rife with conflicts from some of the very animals that make the area so unique. Animals such as the hippopotamus compete with human settlement and often raid [...]
Eco-tourism in Lake Victoria’s Yala wetlands: Training tomorrow’s environmental leaders from within. The Yala swamp sits in the basin of Kenya’s majestic Lake Victoria. Its papyrus wetlands not only support a wealth of biodiversity, but form an economic basis for thousands of Kenyans who make handicrafts from the vital resource. Yet the onslaught of agricultural [...]
Creating innovative solutions to human-lion conflict. The Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem, (the Maasai steppe), of Tanzania hosts some of the most spectacular carnivore populations on the planet; including lions, hyenas, and leopards. The African lion, emblematic of this ecosystem, is perhaps the most threatened of any other lion population in Tanzania due to retaliatory killings by herders [...]
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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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