By 2035, conserve at least 6,500 acres of land across Greater Philadelphia with special ecological, resilience, or equitable access value.

Land conservation creates many environmental, recreational, economic, and cultural benefits that contribute to the quality of life for the people of Greater Philadelphia. In addition to preserving biodiversity and protecting natural habitats, land conservation contributes to clean air, water filtration, the capture of harmful carbon emissions, and provides opportunities for connecting people with and educating them about nature.

Over the last decade, our grant funding has helped to conserve more than 20,000 acres of protected, forested land at the source of rivers and streams in rural and suburban areas.

While our investment in land conservation will be more limited than it has been over the past decade, we will be seizing on unique regional opportunities to conserve land that has a specific value – ecological, recreational, or resilience related – for residents of the region. We recognize that there are many ways that organizations and communities can contribute to advancing this objective and are looking for Philadelphians’ best ideas about how to accomplish it.

We measure our progress through grantee reporting of acres conserved.