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The guiding principle behind our work today is the same as it was 36 years ago: people need nature to thrive. Nature provides the air we breathe, the clothes we wear, the food we eat; it sustains the climate that sustains humanity. When Peter and Spencer founded Conservation International, they recognised that the business-as- usual approach to conservation wasn’t working in many places.

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forest that supplies fresh water to the city of Mombasa. With support from Conservation International, the community has begun selling carbon credits to finance forest protection, while also investing millions of dollars back into education and sustainable development. We have also begun pioneering approaches to grassland regeneration that can cut restoration costs in half, remove millions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere and create new sustainable livelihoods. But here’s what I find most astounding: thanks to the sale of credits, this programme is now almost entirely self-sustaining. Our second goal is to effectively double ocean protection – and protect the world’s greatest food source, climate buffer and reservoir of biodiversity. To accelerate that work, we’ve co- founded the Blue Nature Alliance, a first-of-its-kind partnership to catalyse the conservation of 18 million square kilometres of ocean by 2025, a number that we are already projected to exceed, effectively doubling what is currently conserved. Finally, we’re expanding “planet-positive” economies, introducing conservation models that balance environmental protection with the economic production required to sustain communities. One such example is our new Blue Halo effort in Indonesia, where we are blending public and philanthropic investment to establish marine protected areas for local fisheries. These no-take zones create a “halo” effect: marine life recovers and fish spill over into other areas, benefitting everyone. Underpinning our work around the world is scientific rigour, financial innovation and partnerships with indigenous and local communities, who bring an inimitable and invaluable understanding of their lands.

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[L-R] Lau Seascape RAP expedition 2017. © Conservation International/photo by Katie Bryden Lau Seascape, Fiji aerial. © Conservation International/photo by Mark Erdmann

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Describe your main priorities: stabilising our climate by protecting forests and wetlands, doubling ocean protection and expanding planet-positive economies — and some of your sustainability and climate action programmes in these fields that you’d like to highlight. What are the main tools of your conservation efforts? Those priorities make up three of the stars in our “Southern Cross,” a multi-year strategy named for a constellation commonly used for navigation. Our first goal is to help stabilise our climate through nature-based solutions. The best-available science tells us that protecting, managing and restoring key carbon-rich ecosystems can provide at least one-third of necessary emissions reductions. Still, these initiatives receive only a fraction of global climate funding. By 2025, we intend to prevent the loss of 3.3 million hectares of forest, restore 35 million hectares and protect much more – this would remove roughly one gigaton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, while avoiding two more gigatons. Here’s one example: for about six years, we’ve been working in Kenya’s Chyulu Hills, home to the Maasai people, incredible wildlife and a cloud

CI staff and VR crew shooting Conservation International’s second virtual reality film about the Amazon in September 2016. © Conservation International/photo by John Martin

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