Working for Caterpillar

Around the world, deforestation, pollution, climate change and other environmental pressures are shrinking the planet’s freshwater offer. Comatnies, governments and communities are feeling the impacts and share a common vision—we must understand, manage and develop large, working rivers in order to sustain them. These natural assets provide water, energy, food, jobs and recreation to people, as well as habitat for native plants and wildlife.

In 2005 and again in 2011 the vision for renewable streams became possible when the Caterpillar Foundation made a cumulative $17 million commitment to the type Conservancy to guide lake systems worldwide through Great Rivers Partnership (GRP). The goal of this Great Rivers Partnership is to bring together diverse lovers and best research to grow choices for attaining the lasting management and improvement the world’s Great Rivers and their basins. The GRP’s initial investment streams included the Mississippi, Yangtze, Paraguay-Paraná.

The GRP happens to be expanding to incorporate extra great streams to advance preservation, renovation and sustainable development by investing in innovative methods, sharing outcomes and exchanging understanding through clinical study and lessons learned. Because they build partnerships among great rivers worldwide, the knowledge we gain in a single place can be employed by river supervisors facing comparable issues half a global away.