the Mongolia program offices of The Nature Conservancy, World Wide Fund for Nature, and The Wildlife Conservation Society signed a memorandum of understanding, entering the parties into a conservation collaboration agreement.
The Conservancy and Ijams Nature Center have collaborated on the construction of three state-of-the-art cave gates at a cave system adjoining the Ijams property in Knoxville.
Nature officials fear fast-growing water hyacinth will clog up waterways and damage ecosystems if left un-checked. So for the first time, The Nature Conservancy, state and federal officials and private landowners are combining forces to stop the plant.