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Green Fence Conservation Trust
Green Fence Conservation Trust, commonly called Green Fence, is a | conservation trust and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The mission of Green Fence is to protect habitat by acquiring and protecting land for conservation purposes. Green Fence primarily operates in | Virginia and | North Carolina, and is an organization listed with the | Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Conservation Ethos
Green Fence is a | charitable trust, thereby providing the highest degree of legal protection to conservation lands. The | trust instrument requires fidelity to the organization’s core conservation principles and further prohibits commercial development, mining, drilling, and other activities that could impair the conservation value of the property. Specifically, the trust instrument provides for a Conservation Directive that property stewarded by Green Fence shall be held, protected, and managed such that it shall: (i) remain or revert, as the case may be, in or to its natural, pristine, unspoiled, and wild state and otherwise in such condition as it would be without human interference, influence, degradation, or destruction;  (ii) remain free of and protected from drilling, mining, or any other extraction of oil, natural gas, petroleum, coal, minerals, metals, wood, water, topsoil, or any other resource upon, in, or from the real property;  (iii) provide its natural ecological functions;  (iv) serve as habitat for plant and animal life; and (v) remain free of and protected from all activities that may cause degradation, deterioration, depletion, or destruction to or of the environment, habitat, or plant or animal life. Green Fence further focuses on acquiring full ownership of land, the | fee simple, to insure maximum protection, which is to be contrasted with relying on | conservation easements. Green Fence also maintains an | endowment to perpetually fund its conservation activities and enforce its Conservation Directive.

Programs
Green Fence is best known for its |riparian holdings within the | Cape Fear River watershed in North Carolina. This program is of particular note as this region is the only remaining habitat of the |Cape Fear Shiner, a |endemic fish federally listed as an |endangered species. The Cape Fear River ends as a 35-mile-long coastal estuary that is an important nursery area for juvenile fish, crabs and shrimp. Many different aquatic ecosystems in the Cape Fear River Basin are home to at least 95 species of commercial and recreational fish. Estuaries, blackwater rivers and rocky streams in the basin support 42 rare aquatic species. Also found in this estuary are the American alligator and the loggerhead sea turtle, listed nationally as threatened species, meaning they are at risk of becoming endangered. A third of the streams within the Cape Fear River basin are considered threatened, and over a quarter of its estuarine waters are impaired due to fecal levels, low oxygen, and pollution.

Green Fence Conservation Trust
Green Fence Conservation Trust, commonly called Green Fence, is a | conservation trust and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The mission of Green Fence is to protect habitat by acquiring and protecting land for conservation purposes. Green Fence primarily operates in | Virginia and | North Carolina, and is an organization listed with the | Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Conservation Ethos
Green Fence is a | charitable trust, thereby providing the highest degree of legal protection to conservation lands. The | trust instrument requires fidelity to the organization’s core conservation principles and further prohibits commercial development, mining, drilling, and other activities that could impair the conservation value of the property. Specifically, the trust instrument provides for a Conservation Directive that property stewarded by Green Fence shall be held, protected, and managed such that it shall: (i) remain or revert, as the case may be, in or to its natural, pristine, unspoiled, and wild state and otherwise in such condition as it would be without human interference, influence, degradation, or destruction;  (ii) remain free of and protected from drilling, mining, or any other extraction of oil, natural gas, petroleum, coal, minerals, metals, wood, water, topsoil, or any other resource upon, in, or from the real property;  (iii) provide its natural ecological functions;  (iv) serve as habitat for plant and animal life; and (v) remain free of and protected from all activities that may cause degradation, deterioration, depletion, or destruction to or of the environment, habitat, or plant or animal life. Green Fence further focuses on acquiring full ownership of land, the | fee simple, to insure maximum protection, which is to be contrasted with relying on | conservation easements. Green Fence also maintains an | endowment to perpetually fund its conservation activities and enforce its Conservation Directive.

Programs
Green Fence is best known for its |riparian holdings within the | Cape Fear River watershed in North Carolina. This program is of particular note as this region is the only remaining habitat of the |Cape Fear Shiner, a |endemic fish federally listed as an |endangered species. The Cape Fear River ends as a 35-mile-long coastal estuary that is an important nursery area for juvenile fish, crabs and shrimp. Many different aquatic ecosystems in the Cape Fear River Basin are home to at least 95 species of commercial and recreational fish. Estuaries, blackwater rivers and rocky streams in the basin support 42 rare aquatic species. Also found in this estuary are the American alligator and the loggerhead sea turtle, listed nationally as threatened species, meaning they are at risk of becoming endangered. A third of the streams within the Cape Fear River basin are considered threatened, and over a quarter of its estuarine waters are impaired due to fecal levels, low oxygen, and pollution.