CST Guide:

Section IV: Additional Information
chapter 29: CST Nature Conservancy
2005–06
Spectacular
Migrations
Each year, traveling by land, air, and
sea, animals make time-honored
journeys in pursuit of their destiny. They
follow paths taken by their forebears,
obeying cues they alone perceive and
dare not ignore. Swimming, flying, running,
and crawling, by day and by night,
these creatures venture forth in large
groups or solo. If movement is life, ours
is truly a planet in motion.
Support:
• Operation Migration
• The Atlantic Salmon Federation
2002
Freshwater Wetlands
The occupants of planet Earth are
dependent on an elaborate life-support
system that maintains the air we breathe,
regulates temperature, supplies reserves
of food and water, and shields us from
deadly radiation. This system, provided
by nature free-of-charge, offers a broad
array of critical services: purifying the
air and water, maintaining soil fertility,
decomposing and detoxifying wastes,
recycling essential nutrients, stabilizing
the climate, protecting us from the sun’s
ultraviolet rays, mitigating floods and
droughts, pollinating our crops, and
controlling agricultural pests.
Support:
• Ipswich River Watershed Association
• Massachusetts Chapter of
The Nature Conservancy
Group of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) swimming through an Alaskan river during migration. © Michio Hoshino/Minden Pictures
Underwater landscape of water lilies, Okavango Delta, Botswana. © Frans Lanting/Frans Lanting Stock
2003–04
Plight of the
Pollinators
Ecologists are nowhere close to
documenting all the valuable services
performed by the 100,000 or more
species of pollinators. While dispensing
pollen, bees, bats, birds, and other
animals also add to ecosystem productivity
by facilitating the spread of seeds
and the redistribution of nitrogen-rich
wastes. With their contributions largely
unrecognized, pollinators hold their
place as the unsung heroes of the
natural world.
Support:
• Xerces Society
• Bat Conservation International
2001–02
Nature’s Services
Astronauts on a space station are
dependent on finely-tuned engineered
systems to maintain the air they
breathe, regulate the temperature,
provide food and water, dispose of their
waste products, and protect them from
deadly radiation. Here on Earth, humans
are also dependent on an elaborate
life-support system that sustains the
biosphere which all organisms inhabit.
Support:
• Union of Concerned Scientists
Rafflesia (Rafflesia keithii), 33” wide, 2nd largest specimen found in Borneo, Mount Kinabalu Indonesia. © Frans Lanting/Frans Lanting Stock
Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) in Guatemala. © Steve Winter/National Geographic Stock
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