In 1990, Richard Phillip Eckert and Virginia Eckert Garrett donated a cave in Mason County, Texas, to The Nature Conservancy in honour of their father and grandfather. The gift ensured the bats would ...
Image Credits: Mac Stone taken via South Carolina Forestry Commission In fantastic news for climate activists, South Carolina has permanently protected more than 62,000 acres of forestland in one of t...
A historic ranch in Texas, once home to a celebrated regional artist, is continuing its legacy through a conservation effort led by his descendants. Four Winns Ranch, located near Wimberley in Hays Co...
A woman who used her grandmother’s inheritance to buy a piece of land on Lasqueti Island 45 years ago has helped create a large, connected conservation area in Canada’s Salish Sea. Domena Diesin...
Representative Image (AI-generated) In 2023, scientists relocated 246 endangered black abalone to a protected coastal site in California to help restore a population devastated by disease. Three years...
Amitabh Bachchan recently celebrated his 84th birthday, but the veteran actor sees little reason to make a fuss about the occasion. After nearly six decades in the film industry, Bachchan remains comm...
In the 1960s, Clint Eastwood started investing in small patches of land in Carmel-by-the-Sea after he fell in love with the place in the 1950s. It has now grown into a 2,000-acre protected and sustain...
In 1929, Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie gave his rights to a London children’s hospital; 97 years later, the gift still supports seriously ill children (Image Credit: GOSH Hospital) A fictional b...
Isabella Rossellini turned a 27-acre New York farmstead into a protected community farm after conserving 20.8 acres (Image Credit: Mama Farm) A wooded property on Long Island has become a place where ...
A Colorado ranch homesteaded before statehood stayed with the same family for six generations; more than 150 years later, 650 of its roughly 700 acres were permanently protected from subdivision/Image...