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$2 Million Awarded to Advance Conservation Efforts with Private Land Owners

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$2 Million Awarded to Advance Conservation Efforts with Private Land Owners

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
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Eric Holst, Managing Director, (916) 492-7080, eholst@edf.org
 
(New York, NY – May 28, 2009)  The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) today announced a grant of $2 million over four years to Environmental Defense Fund’s Center for Conservation Incentives (CCI).  The grant will enable CCI to expand efforts aimed at offering private landowners economic incentives to conserve the farms and ranches, forests and other natural areas that are critical for the nation’s wildlife and the American way of life.  CCI’s efforts will be guided by the priorities outlined by each of the 50 states in their State Wildlife Action Plans.
 
“Environmental Defense Fund understands the connections between our environment and our economy, and the way that the two are intertwined,” said Dr. Mark Shaffer, director of DDCF’s Environment Program.  “Over the last seven years, the CCI has proven itself a leader in developing and using incentives that help private landowners be good stewards of wildlife and wildlife habitat.  After all, it is our farmers, ranchers and forest owners who hold the key to conserving wildlife across much of our national landscape.”
 
“By combining economic incentives with the priorities laid out in State Wildlife Action Plans, we can help landowners in their efforts to take action now, before more species become endangered or more habitats are lost,” said Eric Holst, managing director of CCI. 
 
The state wildlife action plans