Our Approach

What We Do Our Approach

Land that is critical for advancing nature, jobs and communities can be lost to fragmentation or development in an instant. That’s why The Conservation Fund has created a unique approach for protecting at-risk land and solving America’s toughest conservation challenges.

With unmatched expertise in structuring land deals and a ready pool of capital, TCF can step in to buy threatened wildlife habitat, working forests, farmland and other vital conservation properties when public and private conservation partners cannot move quickly enough. We hold the land until our partners can secure funding, then resell it to them for permanent protection. That way, we recoup our capital and can recycle it over and over again for maximum impact.

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To meet the new generation of urgent conservation needs around climate, biodiversity, economic opportunity and other challenges, we are continuing to pioneer new approaches to scale our successful model for protecting land across the United States.

Focus Areas

Learn how our conservation approach works to advance economic and environmental progress across America.

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