Working with local partners, communities and people like you, The Nature Conservancy is helping to conserve natural Mississippi for people and nature.

Operation Green at Camp Shelby

The threatened gopher tortoise is getting a head start through a unique research project. Read how our work is benefitting an array of species as well as soldiers. Watch the video!

What's New

One of the largest snakes in North America, the Eastern coachwhip snake is a species of special concern. Watch a video of two found at Camp Shelby.

Conservancy researchers and volunteers go on a fishing expedition for science. With the support of DuPont, biologists are using their rods and reels to monitor the benefits of a newly created reef in the Bay of St. Louis in the Gulf of Mexico. Learn more.

Black bears are returning to the Mississippi Delta. Find out how the Conservancy and its partners are conserving and restoring vital habitat for black bears and many species of concern such as the alligator snapping turtle, pallid sturgeon, interior least tern and rock pocketbook mussel.

Places We Protect

Since 1989, the Conservancy has protected more than 133,000 acres of critical natural lands in Mississippi. Learn more about the places we protect.

Share Your Photos

Help us show, through your photographs, the irreplaceable value of Mississippi's special places. Click here to learn more.

Past Publications

Read about the Mississippi Program's first 20 years of conservation in the state in its 2008 Year in Review.

Members

Show your support for conservation in Mississippi and beyond by displaying a Conservancy vehicle magnet. Find out how you can get one.