About ICO

Imua Conservation Organization (ICO) is an environmental nonprofit

 supporting ecological harmony through preservation, restoration,

 stewardship, education, innovation, and environmental design.

In our view, traditional conservation admirably seeks to preserve and protect natural ecosystems from the disturbance, pollution, and depletion which have accompanied human enterprises in recent times.  Stark lines often demarcate the 'natural world' of regional and national parks, state lands, wildlife reserves, etc. from the 'human world' of urban centers, industrialized suburban tracts, and highly domineering agricultures that cover the places we have often polemically called our homelands.  Along these divides, nature preservation itself can seem to highlight humankind's awkwardness at co-existing in or with nature, almost accentuating our widespread sense of foreignness there and the unforseen impacts of our domestic lifeways.  
So in the current-day, as compassionate groups safeguard and reconnect remnants of the nature we have learned to both live from and overrun, many of us expect to find fences or guard rails solidifying the palpable separation between humans and those highly-sensitive terrains we have managed not to subdue.  While these familiar brands of conservation lend environments much-needed respite and respect—and make for nice photos—few of us receive tangible solutions for our general and long-standing incompatibility with the natural world.  Simply put then, ICO's focus on integrative conservation—while upholding and rejoicing in the vitalities of wildlands preservation—also advances environmental compatibility.  

In various settings, this biocentric intention plays out as civic dialogue and as art in designing more sustainable systems that can gracefully relieve the relational and environmental degradations of societies working earnestly to meet their everyday needs.  Such restorative orientations and standards also continue to invite deep agronomic observation and inter-species planning, as urban, suburban, and rural locations transition more lastingly into vibrant ecological compatibility with nearby and underlying wildernesses.  In these aspects, ICO projects and programs take traditional land conservation a few steps further by approaching wild and pristine places as templates which may predominately re-inspire and vividly re-inform the basic and depletive agri-cultural/industrial methods which have prompted our civilizations towards preservation and environmental advocacy in the first place.  Here, conservation becomes not only the praise of open space or the protection of the exquisite wildnesses we depend upon, but also an opportunity to enjoy enhanced qualities of living for people, local communities, and the global web of life.  

Essentially, we feel grateful and honored as ICO easefully continues to lead individuals, groups, and organizations in aligning harmoniously and less destructively with natural ecologies and with the spaces we already inhabit—for everyone's greater fulfillment, health, and wellbeing.  Taking this journey forward, we thank you heartily for all of your continued support!  

In joy, peace, wilderness, and beauty,

—Imua!!