This fact sheet 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 foster enduring trust and partnership across diverse sectors, groups, and individuals. The document also summarizes key 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 guide Conservation Without Conflict’s collaborative work and bind coalition members together around a shared purpose. These principles emphasize voluntary and collaborative conservation, trust-building, diverse and inclusive participation, science and innovation, economic viability, regulatory predictability, and conservation at scale. The fact sheet also highlights the importance of private lands and working landscapes, along with creative use of the flexibility of the Endangered Species Act, as essential to conserving listed, at-risk, and common wildlife species while keeping working lands working.
