Explore the Largest Coastal Rainforest in the World!
The Nature Conservancy and Nature United transport viewers to the Emerald Edge to hear first-hand from Indigenous leaders through a 3D experience.
An Aerial View of Clayoquot Sound (2015-04-08) by Bryan EvansThe Nature Conservancy's Nature Lab
What is the Emerald Edge?
The Emerald Edge is the world’s largest coastal temperate rainforest, spanning Alaska, British Columbia, Washington state and Oregon. The Emerald Edge sustains hundreds of communities and thousands of species of flora and fauna, including bears, salmon, wolves and whales.
Introduction to the Emerald Edge
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Clayoquot Plateau Provincial Park, Ucluelet, BC, Canada
Explore a 360 view of this provincial park in the Emerald Edge
Flora and Fauna
The Emerald Edge sustains thousands of species of flora and fauna including salmon, bears, wolves, and whales.
The Place and People
The Emerald Edge comprises the territories of more than 50 Indigenous First Nations, Alaska Natives and coastal Tribes who continue to care for the land, waters and communities in the region.
Much of the world’s biodiversity is stewarded on Indigenous Peoples' lands.
However, governments and conservation groups alike have excluded Indigenous Peoples in the Emerald Edge from land-use decision-making and authority over their lands and waters. Over many decades, this exclusion has not led to meaningful environmental protection nor local economic development, but rather it has upheld Western worldviews about conservation disconnected from community well-being.
A Story About Meares Island
As the world desperately seeks out significant and actionable carbon-reduction strategies, the Emerald Edge represents a rare opportunity to invest in a proven approach that is bringing benefits to people, biodiversity, the land and the planet.
Young Humpback Whale near Klemtu, BC, Canada (2016-07-16) by Jason HoustonThe Nature Conservancy's Nature Lab
Natural Climate Solutions
Momentum is building around the use of Indigenous and community-led natural climate solutions - protection, restoration and improved land management activities that avoid greenhouse gas emissions across nature as a powerful tool to address climate crisis.
Working Together With Nature
The Nature Conservancy - The Power of North America's Emerald Edge
The Nature Conservancy - How North America’s Emerald Edge Could Help Change the World
Nature United
Learn more about Nature Lab, The Nature Conservancy's youth curriculum platform here - TNC Nature Lab
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