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Healthy coral reef and fish in Chuuk, Micronesia. © Simon Lorenz
Mazzella Maniwavie, the program manager for Mangoro Market Meri, stands within a mature mangrove forest at Bautama near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

A Tale of Two Forests

The Nature Conservancy provides support as two communities in Papua New Guinea try to save their disappearing woodlands.

The NGS and The Nature Conservancy are remaking the internship experience to better equip young adults from underrepresented communities with the tools they need to become conservation leaders.

Growth Potential

The National Geographic Society and TNC are remaking the internship experience to better equip young adults from underrepresented communities with the tools they need to become conservation leaders.

An anemonefish shelters in the tentacles of a closed up reef anemone.

Our Priorities

TNC works with communities and government to develop solutions for island resilience that help chart a course to a more sustainable, resilient and biodiverse future.

Tuna cans are "caught" in a green net.

Fishing for the Future

The Nature Conservancy and Pacific Island nations are partnering to clean up the region’s tuna catch—changing the way things get done from the seas to the store.

palau islands.

How Aquaculture Siting is Supporting Food Security and Conservation in Palau

The Republic of Palau is attempting the balancing act of ensuring food sovereignty, strengthening their economy and protecting marine ecosystems. And, they're looking to aquaculture to get them there.

Cattle grazing in Laramie, Wyoming.

Walmart Inc. / Walmart Foundation

Walmart Inc. and Walmart Foundation are helping TNC enable sustainable solutions in fragile ecosystems, transform critical food systems, and empower the communities that steward our lands and waters.

Robyn James portrait

Who Is Conservation

Removing barriers for women working in the environmental field will only make conservation as a whole more effective.

Tuna fish swimming in water.

Transforming Tuna Fisheries in the Pacific

Helping move the world’s largest tuna fishery from unsustainable to attainable.

Leatherback turtle swimming in the ocean.

Solomon Islands First Female Rangers Help Save Leatherback Turtles

Solomon Islands' first female rangers help save leatherback turtles.

Baby turtle swimming in the ocean.

New Science Helps Protect Hawksbill Sea Turtles

A satellite tracking study helps scientists better protect sea turtles in the Solomon Islands.

A Yellowface Angelfish speared.

Sustainable Fisheries in the Pacific

Fishing is a central part of life in the Pacific. For reef fisheries, we are working alongside communities to reform policy and management.

A downed palm tree lays across a beach.

Micronesia Challenge: 30, 20, One Micronesia

The Nature Conservancy has worked to advance community-based conservation in Micronesia for 30 years.

A group of women sit amongst mangrove roots.

A Woman Scientist Saves Mangroves and Battles Climate Change in Papua New Guinea

Mazzella Maniwavie, TNC’s first female mangrove scientist in our Pacific program, is saving mangroves and supporting women.

A group of women in Papua New Guinea wave.

Women Guardians of the Mangroves

Women in Papua New Guinea are coming together to care for each other, their families and lead change for their environment.

in the Solomon Islands

The KAWAKI Women’s Group: Turtle Advocates

Women from three Solomon Islands communities have united to protect turtles and play a new role in conservation education and ecotourism.

Small plants grow at the community garden greenhouse operated by participants in the Women Leading Climate Action Workshop.

Promise to the Next Generation

Women in the Pacific Islands are fighting climate change for their children's future

Robyn James sits in windowframe of stone building

Interview: Robyn James

The conservation director for TNC in Melanesia finds that what’s good for women is good for the environment.

Tuna caught near Seychelles

Transparency for Tuna

Global fish stocks are in decline, but a new tuna management scheme by the Federated States of Micronesia offers a blueprint for recovery. By working to manage half of the world’s skipjack tuna stocks sustainably, Pacific islanders are leading the way in ensuring that fish, and people, are protected for generations to come.

TNC works with communities in the Solomon Islands to support their decision making about development.

Mining and Gender Inclusion

We're working with local leaders, communities and women's groups to help them gain better access to information on mining.

View over a beach with a low sun and islands in the distance.

Sustainable Development In The Pacific Islands

We are committed to ensuring that governments and communities are equipped with the best available information to make informed and inclusive decisions.

A tracking device attached to a sea turtle shell.

The Turtle Trackers

In the Pacific Ocean's remote Arnavon Islands, a project to help endangered sea turtles is unlocking the mysteries of migration.

(participatory three-dimensional mapping) is a tool and technique that helps communities visualize their land so they can better plan and manage their natural resources.

Inclusive Planning In Pacific Island Communities

We are working closely with all members of communities to help them better understand their natural resources and manage them effectively and to ensure that they know the potential costs and benefits from development.

In Palau, communities are working on aquaculture like growing giant clams to take pressure off of reef fisheries.

Aquaculture in Asia Pacific

We are helping communities develop aquaculture to take the pressure off fisheries.

in Oneisomw, Chuuk.

Climate Change in the Pacific

Here’s how The Nature Conservancy works in the Pacific Islands and beyond to address the challenges associated with climate change.

in the Arnavon Islands. Local communities here are working to protect hawksbill sea turtles.

Communities Supporting Sea Turtles

Local communities in the Arnavon Islands are the hawksbill’s biggest champions.

in northern Palau.

Community Co-op In Palaus Northern Reefs Save Fish

Fishermen in the northernmost waters of the Republic of Palau began noticing that fish were getting smaller, and each trip was landing fewer fish.

A family fishing in their canoe.

Oneisomw: How a Community United to Protect Their Small Island Home

Oneisomw is one of nine islands within the Faichuuk region of the Chuuk State—one of the four states that make up the Federated States of Micronesia.

On this island in Papua New Guinea, tribal communities have embraced sustainable fisheries management.

Creating A New High Value Fisheries Model In Manus Papua New Guinea

In Papua New Guinea, we’re helping local resource owners assess their economically valuable sea cucumber fisheries and establish sustainable management regimes, including a network of protected areas.

in the Solomon Islands.

Gender and Climate Change

Women learning from women how to manage climate change adaptation.

A marine scientist looks for the crusty nautilus

Nautical Quest

An essay by marine scientist, Rick Hamilton, who embarks on a search for a deep-water nautilus not seen in decades.

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