2024-03-20T10:01:07-05:00 2023-12-31 113066459 CERINI & ASSOCIATES LLP 3340 VETERANS MEMORIAL HWY BOHEMIA NY 11716 990 2023-01-01 842412702 SAVING NATURE INC SAVI 6464895481 1 BLAND SPRING PLACE DURHAM NC 27713 STUART PIMM PRESIDENT 6464895481 2024-03-18 1 STUART PIMM XXX-XX-XXXX 0 KEN CERINI P00223556 6315821600 2024-03-18 2 AAL1 IAL1 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z STUART PIMM 1 BLAND SPRING PLACE DURHAM NC 27713 1269888 0 X SAVINGNATURE.COM X 2019 NC OUR MISSION IS TO RESCUE ENDANGERED SPECIES FROM EXTINCTION AND COMMUNITIES FROM ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION. WE USE A PROVEN BLUEPRINT FOR STRATEGIC ACTION TO CONNECT, PROTECT AND RESTORE NATURE, GIVING ENDANGERED SPECIES THE CHANCE TO REBOUND AND COMMUNITIES A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE. 6 6 0 1 0 0 703666 1258329 0 0 498 11559 0 0 704164 1269888 527241 799252 0 0 0 0 0 0 2645 158426 185823 685667 985075 18497 284813 612622 936848 0 0 612622 936848 X OUR MISSION IS TO RESCUE ENDANGERED SPECIES FROM EXTINCTION AND COMMUNITIES FROM ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION. WE USE A PROVEN BLUEPRINT FOR STRATEGIC ACTION TO CONNECT, PROTECT AND RESTORE NATURE, GIVING ENDANGERED SPECIES THE CHANCE TO REBOUND AND COMMUNITIES A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE. 0 0 844815 799252 1258329 SAVING NATURE IS A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION GRANTED TAX-EXEMPT STATUS WITH THE IRS AS A 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION. THE ORGANIZATION FOCUSES ON NATURE IN CRISIS IN BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS, WHERE POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION DRIVE SPECIES EXTINCTIONS AND HARDSHIPS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES. WE WORK IN THE WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT AND THREATENED FORESTS TO RECONNECT ISOLATED FRAGMENTS, RESTORING ANCIENT MIGRATION ROUTES AND HIGHWAY CANOPIES DESTROYED BY HUMAN ACTIONS. WE DO THIS BY CREATING WILDLIFE CORRIDORS WITH NATIVE TREES. OUR PROJECTS ARE A MIX OF NATURAL REGENERATION AND TREE PLANTING. WE SELECT WILDLIFE CORRIDORS THAT OFFER THE GREATEST LEVERAGE IN RECONNECTING THE LAST STANDING FOREST REMNANTS. OUR CORRIDORS LINK ISOLATED HABITATS TO RESCUE BIODIVERSITY AND PRESERVE CRITICAL ECOSYSTEMS. BY LIBERATING SPECIES MAROONED IN FRAGMENTS TOO SMALL FOR THEIR LONG-TERM SURVIVAL, WE UNLOCK THE POTENTIAL FOR GENETIC RESCUE, EXPAND ACCESS TO RESOURCES, AND REDUCE HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT. LED BY DR. STUART PIMM, DORIS DUKE PROFESSOR OF CONSERVATION AT DUKE UNIVERSITY, OUR CONSERVATION PROJECTS ARE FIRMLY ROOTED IN SCIENCE, FOCUSING ON AREAS WITH THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF SPECIES AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXTINCTION. WITH OUR LEADERSHIP IN CONSERVATION SCIENCE, SAVING NATURE CAN PROVIDE IMPORTANT INSIGHTS INTO THE MOST EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS THAT ALIGN WITH NESTLE'S CLIMATE GOALS AND CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY. BIODIVERSITY TO IDENTIFY AREAS FOR BIODIVERSITY RESCUE, WE DEPLOY SCIENTIFIC DATA TO PINPOINT THE BEST LOCATIONS TO INTERVENE NARROWING DOWN HOTSPOTS SPANNING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SQUARE KILOMETERS TO TARGET THE MOST CRITICAL LOCATIONS FOR PRACTICAL ACTION GENERALLY AREAS OF LESS THAN 5,000 HECTARES. OUR APPROACH DISTILLS THE SUCCESS FACTORS NEEDED FOR EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION INTO ACTIONABLE INTERVENTIONS, FOCUSING ON THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF THREATENED, ENDEMIC, AND SMALL-RANGED SPECIES; THE ELEVATIONAL GRADIENTS WHERE THEY CONCENTRATE, THE PATTERNS OF DEFORESTATION, AND THE IMMEDIATE THREATS TO THE LAST STANDING FORESTS. OUR DATA SOURCES INCLUDE SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MAPS FROM THE IUCN (MAMMALS AND AMPHIBIANS) AND BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL AND EBIRD (BIRDS); ENDANGERED SPECIES DATA FROM THE IUCN RED LIST; AND SATELLITE IMAGERY FROM GOOGLE EARTH AND OUR DRONE FLIGHTS. BY DRAPING HEAT MAPS OF THESE DATA OVER 3D HABITAT VISUALIZATIONS, WE GET A CLEAR PICTURE OF AREAS NEEDING THE MOST IMMEDIATE ACTION. OUR TACTICAL MAPPING OF EXACTLY WHERE FOREST RESTORATIONS CAN HAVE THE GREATEST IMPACTS WAS FEATURED IN AMERICAN SCIENTIST (SEE PIMM SL, JENKINS CN. (2019) AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 107(3):162-9.). CLIMATE CHANGEOUR APPROACH IS A SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE, AND SCALABLE SOLUTION TO FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE. RESTORING DEGRADED LAND AND RECONNECTING ISOLATED FORESTS ABSORBS ATMOSPHERIC CARBON EMISSIONS AND HELPS SPECIES ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE BY FINDING SAFE HARBORS. THE FORESTS WE RESTORE SOAK UP CO2 FOR 20 YEARS OR MORE. INDEED, INCREASING EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO FOR MUCH LONGER, THOUGH AT A SLOWER RATE. IN ADDITION, THE CORRIDORS WE CREATE LIBERATE SPECIES TRAPPED AND ISOLATED IN INCREASINGLY INHOSPITABLE HABITATS. RECONNECTING FORESTS CREATE ESCAPE ROUTES FOR SPECIES SEEKING HIGHER GROUND IN AN ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE.TREE PLANTINGWE PLANT THE RIGHT TREES IN THE RIGHT PLACES TO SAFEGUARD BIODIVERSITY, PROTECT NATURE, AND FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE. TO DATE, WE HAVE PLANTED OVER 5 MILLION TREES IN OUR PROJECTS AROUND THE WORLD. ON AVERAGE, WE PLANT 1,675 TREES PER ACRE, COMPRISING HUNDREDS OF UNIQUE SPECIES OF NATIVE TREES - FRUIT TREES, NESTING TREES, PIONEER SPECIES, AND SUCCESSION SPECIES. IMPORTANTLY, WE SUPPORT NURSERIES RUN BY THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES, PROVIDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN RESTORING OUR LOST FORESTS. WHEN YOU TOTAL UP THE COST OF COLLECTING AND GROWING THE SAPLINGS, WEEDING, PLANTING, AND WATERING, OUR COSTS AVERAGE $2 PER TREE.LONG-TERM VISION SAVING NATURE CONDUCTS EXTENSIVE DUE DILIGENCE IN SELECTING OUR CONSERVATION PARTNERS, ENSURING LONG-TERM PROJECT DURABILITY. WE COLLABORATE WITH LOCAL PARTNERS TO BUILD CAPACITY IN CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE SCIENCE. THE CAPACITY OF POTENTIAL PARTNERS TO MAINTAIN PROJECTS IN THE LONG-TERM IS A CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR FOR CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE SEQUESTRATION. WE CAREFULLY SELECT LOCAL CONSERVATION NGO'S, FOCUSING ON CONSERVATION VALUE, PROVEN MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE, AND CLEAR LAND TENURE. WE LOOK FOR PARTNERS WHO ARE LOCALLY BASED OR AND WHO HAVE WORKED IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES FOR A DECADE OR MORE. OUR PARTNERS OWN AND MANAGE THE LAND AND HAVE TEAMS WHO LIVE YEAR-ROUND IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES. AS PRIVATE CONSERVATION RESERVES, OUR PROJECTS ARE NOT VULNERABLE TO GOVERNMENT SHIFTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES. MONITORING & TECHNICAL SUPPORT IMPORTANTLY, WE VISIT THE PROJECTS SO THAT WE CAN ASSESS THEIR POTENTIAL AND PROGRESS. WE DEPLOY CAMERA TRAPS THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT TO MONITOR WHICH SPECIES UTILIZE THE RESTORED HABITATS. TO ANALYZE THE DATA, WE SPONSOR CONSERVATION COURSES AT DUKE UNIVERSITY THAT TRAIN UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS IN CONSERVATION ANALYTICS. WE ALSO WORK WITH DUKE'S TECHNOLOGY INCUBATOR TO DEVELOP MACHINE LEARNING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES TO AUTOMATE MONITORING EFFICIENCY, ACCURACY, AND REACH. FOR ARBOREAL SPECIES, WE CONDUCT IN-SITU SURVEYS OF THE RESTORED FORESTS AND USE OUR EXTENSIVE NATURAL HISTORY EXPERIENCE TO IDENTIFY SPECIES THAT HAVE RETURNED. 844815 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 NC X X STUART PIMM 6464895481 1 BLAND SPRING PLACE DURHAM NC 27713 X DAN M MARTIN DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 STUART PIMM PRESIDENT & CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD 10.00 X X 0 0 0 CLINTON JENKINS VICE PRESIDENT 10.00 X X 0 0 0 PATRICK BRIAN RODGERS SECRETARY 10.00 X X 0 0 0 ALEX DEHGAN DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 CASSIDY HORN DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 LUCAS JOPPA DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ERIN WILLIGAN 21 EAST AVENUE NORWALK CT 06851 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 102496 1 1258329 1258329 11559 11559 1269888 0 0 11559 799252 799252 125396 22500 102896 10082 10082 3054 3054 4145 4145 16382 16382 9959 9959 9117 9117 FUNDRAISING EXPENSES 2645 2645 DUES & SUBSCRIPTIONS 1935 1935 WEBSITE EXPENSES 1692 1692 BANK CHARGES & FEES 1416 1416 985075 844815 137615 2645 578535 663219 207724 1252 835 0 417 23335 63861 10752 1627 612622 936848 0 0 X 532039 722230 80583 214618 612622 936848 612622 936848 284813 39413 0 X 0 0 0 X 236336 500829 836893 703666 1258329 3536053 236336 500829 836893 703666 1258329 3536053 1946663 1589390 498 11559 12057 3548110 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1252 835 417 417 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SOUTH AMERICA BRAZIL'S ATLANTIC FOREST RESTORATION 123151 WIRE TRANSFER 0 CASH SOUTH AMERICA COLOMBIA'S WESTERN ANDES RESTORATION 226856 WIRE TRANSFER 0 CASH SOUTH AMERICA SAVING ECUADOR'S FORESTS 57000 WIRE TRANSFER 0 CASH EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC SUMATRA'S LAUSER ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION 71683 WIRE TRANSFER 0 CASH TANZANIA TANZANIA ELEPHANT CORRIDOR 74533 WIRE TRANSFER 0 CASH 0 0 0 0 0 0 FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 8B THE ORGANIZATION DOES NOT HAVE ANY COMMITTEES FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11B THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECEIVES THE 990 PRIOR TO FILING. 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