ConocoPhillips is a long-time supporter of The Nature Conservancy. In 2000, ConocoPhillips made a $1 million gift to the Alaska chapter's Great Places in the Great Land conservation campaign. The contribution remains the largest corporate gift to conservation in Alaska's history. Great Places in a Great Land is a five-year effort to identify lands throughout Alaska that deserve protection and find strategies to implement protective measures. The funds will be used to buy critical habitat from willing sellers in order to protect it for future generations and to work with Alaska communities to build economies that do no harm to the land. Some funds also will pay for the planning efforts to identify critical lands.
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Nature Conservancy, founded in 1951, is the world's leading private, international conservation group. Its goal is to preserve habitats and species by saving the lands and waters they need to survive. It has helped protect more than 15 million acres of habitat in the United States and nearly 101 million acres outside the United States. The Conservancy manages about 1,400 preserves, the largest system of private nature sanctuaries in the world. ConocoPhillips also supports The Nature Conservancy's projects in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana.