{"id":178591,"date":"2026-07-08T13:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/?p=178591"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:29:51","slug":"press-release-scbna-develops-new-definition-of-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/general\/press-release-scbna-develops-new-definition-of-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: SCBNA Develops New Definition of Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Conservation-Definition-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-178592\" src=\"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Conservation-Definition-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Conservation-Definition-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Conservation-Definition-1-1030x1030.png 1030w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Conservation-Definition-1-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Conservation-Definition-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Conservation-Definition-1-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Conservation-Definition-1-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Conservation-Definition-1-705x705.png 705w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Conservation-Definition-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Press Release: SCB North America Develops New Definition of \u201cConservation\u201d &#x1f331;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FINAL_SCBNA_PressRelease_DefinitionConservation.pdf\">https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FINAL_SCBNA_PressRelease_DefinitionConservation.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Building on our 2025 webinar series &#8220;A Conversation on State Wildlife Agencies,\u201d SCBNA\u2019s Policy Issues Working Group collaboratively developed a definition of conservation (approved by the SCBNA Board of Directors on January 22, 2026). The definition is intended to guide actions within SCB North America, the broader Society for Conservation Biology global community, and all those interested in the protection and recovery of nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Read more about the definition: <a class=\"sc-gcrLXk jtZhzB vk-MessageLink\" href=\"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/scbnas-definition-of-conservation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/scbnas-definition-of-conservation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stay tuned for more at <a class=\"sc-eYHxxX xxgID vk-MessageHashtag\" dir=\"auto\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/NACCR2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NACCR2026<\/a>! For further information or to share feedback on how you hope to apply the definition, please contact mail@scbnorthamerica.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release: SCB North America Develops New Definition of \u201cConservation\u201d &#x1f331; https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FINAL_SCBNA_PressRelease_DefinitionConservation.pdf Building on our 2025 webinar series &#8220;A Conversation on State Wildlife Agencies,\u201d SCBNA\u2019s Policy Issues Working Group collaboratively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,1,2,19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage-article","category-general","category-naccb","category-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}