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Protect Nature! With your help, we can strengthen protected areas and conserve our planet’s lands and waters.

It is possible that protected areas are helping to keep your drinking water fresh and the air you breathe clean. There is plenty that you can do in return!  Here are some ways in which you can get started.

• Volunteer at a Nature Conservancy preserve.
• Visit one of the many protected areas that we support around the world, including our own preserves in the United States.
• Donate now and support our protected areas work around the world.
• Enter our photo contest and demonstrate your passion for a place that we protect.
• Adopt an acre and help protect Costa Rica’s lush Osa Penisula.

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo ©  Harold E. Malde (a hiking family in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, California);  Photo © Jana Smith (Young elk in Jackson Hole, Wyoming).