The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. Since 1951, The Nature Conservancy has protected more than 119 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide — and we operate more than 100 marine conservation projects globally. The Nature Conservancy works in all 50 states and more than 30 countries—protecting habitats from grasslands to coral reefs, from Australia to Alaska to Zambia. For more information, please visit www.nature.org.  The Delaware Chapter of The Nature Conservancy has protected more than 30,000 acres in Delaware and maintains more than 5,000 in preserves.  More more information about the Delaware Chapter, please visit http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/delaware/index.htm