Welcome to The Tributary Fund
Joining Culture and Conservation

NEWS Jane Goodall coming to MSU sponsored by the Tributary Fund.

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Newsletter Spring 2008 Click on image or here to see our latest newsletter.

OUR MISSION: To engage communities in conservation solutions by connecting religious, scientific and local leaders.

OUR STRATEGY: Protection of native species, lands and waters can succeed only when local needs, cultural cadence and traditional patterns guide protection efforts. Each project we undertake joins culture and conservation.

WHY CONSERVATION AND CULTURE? The Fund is not a religious group, but we seek to reinforce the power of cultural frameworks and religious beliefs conducive to sustainable conservation. As relationships are built between conservationists and religious leaders, ethics in religious texts may be highlighted to reinforce conservation messages.

Science explains environmental degradation and offers solutions; religions provide a spiritual framework that can help to guide community stewardship and encourage preservation. Ancient traditions and sacred texts contain principles that are pertinent to communities making choices related to global warming, consumption, and other pressing contemporary issues. Conservationists and religious leaders together find ways of bringing ethical traditions to bear on such challenges.

View "Buddha and the Big Fish" - our new movie

PRESS
Cast Emperor article by Charles Gaines in Forbes (November 2007)
For more information, read an article in National Geographic Adventure  magazine by David Quammen.
"The New Soul of Mongolia - In the Kingdom of Eternal Blue Heaven" (1.5 Meg .pdf file)

Betsy Gaines Quammen discusses her work with The Tributary Fund on Yellowstone Public Radio's Real Time. You can listen using either Windows Media Player or .mp3.

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