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Explore The Nature Conservancy in Alabama

From rare and endangered plants and animals to prairies, forests and the Gulf coast, The Nature Conservancy is working to protect Alabama for people and nature.

Boom Deployment in Alabama ImageJeff Dequattro (wearing sunglasses, is a member of The Nature Conservancy staff) with Lynn Moore and others struggle to place a string of orange oll containment booms at The Nature Conservancy's oyster reef restoration project at Coffee Island on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. The booms are being placed in an effort to protect the project from the spread of oil caused by the massive April 20th, 2010, British Petroleum (BP) offshore oil rig explosion and the continuing oil leak from it into the Gulf of Mexico. © Bill Finch
Response to the BP Oil Spill

Learn more about the steps taken in Alabama to respond to the BP Oil Spill of 2010.

Alabama Shad image smallAlabama Shad © USFWS
Alabama Shad Species Profile

Learn more about this rare fish found in Alabama's waters.

Mobile Bay Restoration image smallProject staff check an artificial oyster reef, part of The Nature Conservancy's oyster restoration project at Coffee Island off the Alabama Gulf Coast, which is being protected by lines of oil containment and absorbtion booms during the 2010 British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. © Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy
Mobile Bay Restoration Project

We are using federal funds to create a living shoreline oyster project in Alabama.

Small image of american oysterStudio still life photograph of oysters. © Mark Godfrey/TNC
American Oyster Species Profile

Learn more about the American Oyster, of which up to 89 percent in the Gulf of Mexico has disappeared.

small Dauphin Island imageView of the southeastern shore of Dauphin Island, Mobile County, Alabama, United States. © Altairisfar (Jeffrey Reed)
Postcard from Dauphin Island

Read a first-person story from a conservation partner at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in coastal Alabama.

small pitcher plant imagePitcher plants at Lewis Ocean Bay in South Carolina, United States, North America. © Reg Daves
In Memoriam: George Folkerts

Learn more about one of the first trustees of the Alabama Chapter.

Japanese climbing fern imageJapanese climbing fern © Chris Evans, River to River CWMA, bugwood.org
Alabama's Worst Invasives

Learn about Alabama's worst invasives, and what the Conservancy is doing to prevent them.

small painted rock river imageView downstream of Estill Fork, site of the endangered mussel, Pale lilliput, in the Painted Rock River area in Alabama. © Harold E. Malde
Share Your Images of Alabama

Help us tell the story of Alabama's natural heritage by sharing your photographs!

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Photo Special Features TabLion in Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa. © Kenneth K. Coe

Close Encounters with Nature

Whether scary or exciting, nature has a way of sneaking up on you. See stories

Arden OConnor 215x143Arden O’Connor. © Lajla LeBlanc

Nature Matters

Hear some of nature's success stories and see how nature matters to us all. Watch videos

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American Oystercatcher image American Oystercatchers © Beth Maynor Young
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