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A trust fund for land, run by people who think in centuries, not quarters.
means An organization set up to protect and manage land, water, or wildlife for the long haul, rather than for profit or quick use.
from Traces back to the Latin 'conservare' — to keep, preserve, maintain — the same root behind 'conserve' and 'conservation.' The word drifted into English legal and administrative use centuries ago, first naming bodies that oversaw rivers and fisheries (England's river 'conservancies' policed waterways and catches), before broadening to any trust charged with guarding a piece of the natural world.
- legal structure
- often a nonprofit holding land rights forever
- central park
- managed by a private conservancy, not the city
- tactic
- buys land just to leave it alone
- funding irony
- relies on rich donors to protect wild places