Alliance of Religions and Conservation

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"In 1986, HRH Prince Philip, then President of WWF International issued an astonishing invitation. He asked five leaders of the five major world religions – Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism – to come and discuss how their faiths could help save the natural world. He decided to do this at Assisi in Italy, because it was the birthplace of St Francis, the Catholic saint of ecology. It was a unique occasion, involving some of the world’s leading environmental and conservation bodies sitting down for the first time with the world’s major faiths to discuss how they could all work together. It created more press interest than any other WWF event to date... From this meeting arose key statements by the five faiths outlining their own distinctive traditions and approach to the care for nature. And from these came the seeds of ARC. "[1]

People

Accessed March 2012: [2]

The trustees are drawn from our three founding bodies –

Staff

ARC's Benefactors (2005)

"ARC’s success has been made possible by the generosity of our benefactors. We take this special opportunity to express our thanks to these key financial supporters. Over the years there have been many others, whom we also thank." [3]

Major Partners

Other valued partners

"We are also very grateful to the individual donors, whose gifts have helped ARC’s work:

Contact

URL: http://www.arcworld.org

Resources and articles

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References

  1. Alliance of Religions and Conservation About, organizational web page, accessed March 27, 2012.
  2. Alliance of Religions and Conservation People, organizational web page, accessed March 27, 2012.
  3. Alliance of Religions and Conservation 2005, organizational web page, accessed May 6, 2012.