On a Mission - The Nature Conservancy in Missouri

Priorities in Action: A Boost for Healthy Rivers

ROUTES & ROOTS: ENTERPRISE HEALTHY RIVERS PROJECT

Enterprise Mobility Foundation’s support for conservation stretches across the world. Two major gifts to The Nature Conservancy power a broad portfolio of critical freshwater work through Routes & Roots: Enterprise Healthy Rivers Project. The foundation’s combined $60 million in contributions, the single largest gift to TNC’s global water work, have helped identify where natural solutions can protect drinking water in European cities, support Indigenous- led conservation of lands and waters in Canada, and boost key projects for U.S. rivers, including in the Mississippi and Colorado river basins. And that’s just a sampling. The program helps improve rivers and watersheds that benefit people and nature internationally, as well as sites right here in Missouri. CHILE Chile is home to some of Earth’s most vital landscapes. Covering 4,000 miles of South America’s Pacific Ocean coastline, the country has temperate rainforests in Patagonia, one of the world’s five Mediterranean regions and the Humbolt Current, which is an ocean highway that is one of the planet’s most productive marine systems and accounts for more than 10% of the annual global fish catch. The Nature Conservancy has worked for years with Chile’s people to conserve those treasures of biodiversity through a variety of efforts, including support for the country’s small fisheries, restoring wetlands and establishing the Valdivian Coastal Reserve in the rainforest that rises from the southern coastline. Missouri residents Nance Buth and Bibie Chronwall contributed to those efforts. Their combined generosity, totaling $24,000, will be matched by the Chile Board of Trustees. The matching campaign exceeded its goal, raising $478,000 for the Latin America Program.

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