This one-page overview introduces Conservation Without Conflict as both a proven approach to conservation and a coalition of public and private partners committed to conserving wildlife while keeping America’s working lands working. It presents the coalition’s vision for voluntary collaboration to become the preferred model for wildlife conservation on working lands across the United States, and its mission to build enduring trust and partnership across sectors, groups, and individuals. The document also summarizes the benefits of the approach, including thriving wildlife, increased biodiversity, ecological co-benefits, socioeconomic co-benefits, cultural co-benefits, and more adaptable, efficient, and effective conservation projects.
The second page outlines the operating principles that bind coalition members together around a shared purpose. These principles emphasize a growing shift toward voluntary, collaborative wildlife conservation; the importance of building trust among partners who have historically worked in silos or conflict; the need to welcome diverse perspectives; and the value of science, innovation, local knowledge, and traditional knowledge in shaping durable conservation outcomes. The document also highlights the importance of private lands and working landscapes, economic viability, regulatory predictability, conservation at scale, and creative use of the flexibility of the Endangered Species Act to conserve listed, at-risk, and common wildlife species.
