The Nature Conservancy2020年年度报告.pdf

1、NATURE NOWTRANSFORMING CONSERVATION IN THE FACE OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES2020 ANNUAL REPORTNATURE.ORG/ANNUALREPORT 1IN MAY 2020,I joined The Nature Conservancy as chief executive officerone of the proudest and most joyous days in my 25-year career in conservation.Of course,the first few weeks did not go

2、as I expected.Or the first few months.The deadly COVID-19 pandemic surged,wreaking havoc on fam-ilies,health care systems and economies around the world.Nearly a year later,many of us continue to work from home and maintain physical distance from friends,colleagues and loved ones.While it was a chal

3、lenging first chapter for me at TNC,an or-ganization I had long admired and hoped to work for one day,we were able to forge connections and make remarkable progress.I“met”thousands of colleagues and hundreds of trustees and supporters on Zoom instead of in person.My colleagues and I learned about ou

4、r partnerships with Indigenous communities to use fire to restore healthy forests through conversations and photos,without ever feeling the heat of a controlled burn.We celebrated the creation of Colorados new 20,000-acre Fishers Peak State Park without looking up at the towering mountains.And we le

5、arned how to plant cacao trees via a social messaging app alongside planters in Brazil without holding a seedling in our hands or smelling the damp soil of the surrounding rainforest.You can learn more about these and other TNC projects in the pages to come.Many of the challenges that marked 2020a g

6、lobal pandemic,record temperatures,fires and hurricanes,and long-overdue reckonings with racist systems and calls for equityare continuing to impact our lives.But 2020 was also marked by a spirit of resilience,tenacity and creativity.The world came together to tackle problems in new ways,with unprec