The Conservation Fund in the News

Freshwater Institute announced today its selection for the 2023 NewTechAqua Award Challenge. Freshwater Institute’s real-time fish mortality detection system was one of five entries chosen from 47 proposals for the Award Challenge — and it is the only winner from the United States.

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Brian Vinci, IntraFish — Let’s be clear, the land-based salmon farming dream is not a disaster in Maine, or anywhere else for that matter. We are in the midst of the development and growth of the land-based salmon farming industry. Growth by fits and starts is to be expected, not criticized.

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Zayna Syed, Arizona Republic — This Arizona community wanted the former Rancho Vistoso golf course become a nature preserve. So they got to work. Eventually, they raised $1.8 million and worked with The Conservation Fund to purchase the property.

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The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute and Mountaineer Food Bank teamed up to provide over 4,000 meals of locally-raised salmon fillets to West Virginians in need.

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Susan Sharon, Maine Public Radio — Around the world, the push is on for large-scale conservation. As an example of how this can work, Tom Duffus of The Conservation Fund points to rural Oxford County, Maine, which includes part of the White Mountain National Forest and the Appalachian trail.

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Noregs Fiskerihøgskule ved UiT Noregs arktiske universitet har fått 28 millionar frå Forskingsrådet til prosjektet CandRAS. No skal kompetansen på landbasert fiskeoppdrett hevast i heile landsdelen.

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Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post — "It’s about honoring their ancestral rights,” said Blaine Phillips, a senior vice president at The Conservation Fund."

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Jeff Kart, Forbes — Up until recently, 70,000 acres of forestland in northern Wisconsin was the largest, privately-owned, unprotected block of remaining forest in the state. The Conservation Fund has purchased the land for an undisclosed price. But the value is sort of priceless.

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