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32 St. Thomas L. Rev. 3 (2019-2020)
The Second International Conference on Climate, Nature, and Society: Selected Conference Excerpts

handle is hein.journals/stlr32 and id is 9 raw text is: 2019] SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE, NATURE,& SOCIETY 3 THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE, NATURE, AND SOCIETY: SELECTED CONFERENCE EXCERPTS HOSTED BY THE NATURE CONSERVANCY & ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY WE CAN FIND GREAT HOPE BY TEMPERINCE MORGAN Executive Director of The Nature Conservancy The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a proud co-sponsor of the Second International Conference on Climate, Nature, and Society with St. Thomas University. TNC is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to protect the lands and waters on which all life depends. We are an organization full of passionate conservationists. We believe that thoughtful, evidence-based methods and collaborative partnerships are the key to protecting our natural environment and ensuring that the human race lives up to its obligation to protect and steward this gift, the Earth, which we all call home. For far too long, science and religion have suffered an uneasy relationship, and the field of conservation is no exception. Despite the value both conservation and religion place on nature, tension often divides the two. There is too much at stake, and too much to lose, if we do not work together to protect the natural world. For some of you, it may come as no surprise when I say that religious groups are the original conservationists. Worldwide, spiritual organizations own five to ten percent (5% to 10%) of forests, and sacred sites occur on every continent except Antarctica. An estimated seventy percent (70%) of national parks that exist today were originally preserved by spiritual groups, and some sacred sites in Mongolia and China have been quietly protected for more than 1000 years. The protection of sacred places is an acknowledgment of something we all feel deeply within us. It is an understanding that there are spaces and places that speak to us; places so special that they give us a glimpse into Creation itself and inspire and soothe us in a way that nothing else possibly can. They are places that we feel compelled to protect.

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