Greening Latin America: Investing in Nature for a Sustainable Future | Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature ConservancyWritten by Brad Parker Published on December 13th, 2011 | Discuss This Article Mark Tercek is the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. In the recent past, sugarcane growers and conservationists may have seemed unlikely allies.

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The new Latin American Water Funds Partnership will significantly expand a successful model we developed in Quito, Ecuador, in 2000, through which utility companies, breweries and other downstream users voluntarily provide funding for the conservation of forests and watersheds upstream. Read more…

This is just an unbelievable place.

Olympic National Park: One of the wildest places left in the USA [36 PICS]Olympic National Park in Washington offers a bit of everything for nature lovers, hikers and adventurers like Pacific Ocean beaches, rain forest valleys, glacier-capped peaks and a dazzling diversity of plants and animals. 95% of this park is still wilderness, making Olympic Wilderness one of the wildest places left in the lower 48 states.

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Olympic National Park in HD

Using the Flip Ultra HD I made a short movie about the beautiful scenery that the Olympic National Park in Washington State has to offer. Some of the sites are near Hurricane Ridge, Sol Duc Falls, Lake Crescent, etc.

Our “Beauty Marks” series highlights places that inspire us in nature.  In wildness is the future.

Nature Photo of the Week: Transantarctic Mountains | Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature ConservancyWritten by Madeline Breen Published on December 9th, 2011 | Discuss This Article Photographer Edmund Stump writes, “As the Andes are to South America and the Himalayas are to Asia, so are the Transantarctic Mountains to Antarctica.” This glorious – and desolate – photograph of the Transantarctic Mountains caught our eye and was an easy pick for Nature Photo of the Week.

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