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The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

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The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a membership-based nongovernmental organization with headquarters in the USA. It has more than one million members and addresses conservation issues across many landscapes and ecosystems, including rivers and wetlands, as well as coastal and marine systems. It works globally to ensure the conservation and restoration of ecologically important lands and waters and to support the ongoing provision of ecosystem services that provide many benefits for people. It comprises a network of offices and field stations across all states of the USA and in more than 35 countries.

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  1. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Elizabeth Mitchell Drive, PO Box 789, 2640, Albury, New South Wales, Australia

    C. Max Finlayson

  2. UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    C. Max Finlayson

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  1. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    C. Max Finlayson

  2. International Water Security Network, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Mark Everard

  3. UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    Kenneth Irvine

  4. RM Wetlands and Environment Ltd., Littleworth, Oxfordshire, UK

    Robert J. McInnes

  5. U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, USA

    Beth A. Middleton

  6. Aquatic Ecosystems Group, Department of Water Science and Engineering, UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    Anne A. van Dam

  7. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    Nick C. Davidson

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Finlayson, C.M. (2018). The Nature Conservancy (TNC). In: Finlayson, C.M., et al. The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9659-3_109

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