Help Protect Missouri's Lands and Waters Help protect Missouri’s beauty and natural diversity. The success of our Campaign for Conservation relies on the support of people like you. Howard & Joyce Wood Read more about how Howard and Joyce Wood's $2 million gift to the Conservancy launched an innovative fund that allows the Conservancy to work directly with private landowners to promote sustainable forest management. Campaign for Conservation Brochure Read more about our Campaign for Conservation and how you can get involved. [pdf, 1.3 MB] Go Deeper Faces of Conservation Read the inspiring stories of people who are having an impact on Missouri conservation. Missouri's Grasslands See how our campaign will protect Missouri's Grasslands. [pdf, 572 kb] Missouri's Ozarks See how our campaign will protect Missouri's Ozarks. [pdf, 345 kb]

To protect the woodlands, fresh water and grasslands that make Missouri unique, The Nature Conservancy in Missouri launched its Campaign for Conservation in October 2007. As of June 2009, 80 percent of the campaign goal has been achieved. The campaign will conclude in December 2010. With a goal of $18 million, it is the largest private conservation campaign in state history.

Conservation is at an urgent point in Missouri, the nation and the world. Climate change, the loss of global habitat and species, freshwater shortages and the detrimental effects of invasive species are daily news here in Missouri and across the globe. We must stem this global crisis effectively and efficiently, starting here in Missouri, by protecting our native habitats.

We need your help.

Through Missouri’s Campaign for Conservation, we will:

• restore and protect the best of Missouri’s remaining tallgrass prairies and the prairie chickens, butterflies and other native plants and animals that thrive there;
   
• work with private landowners to protect the health of the Current River and other streams in the Missouri Ozarks by promoting sustainable forest management;
   
• restore and maintain floodplain habitat on the Upper Mississippi River for the fish, waterfowl, and human communities that depend on it; and
   
• apply lessons learned in Missouri’s prairies and forests to assist our partners in Brazil and Belize in conserving the vast grasslands and forestlands that hold a wealth of plant and animal life.

The Nature Conservancy and its supporters have an opportunity to make a significant investment in the future, to protect and restore the natural systems upon which we all depend.

If you’d like to help preserve the beauty and natural diversity of Missouri today, tomorrow and for generations to come, then please consider making a gift to our Campaign for Conservation.

Nature picture credits (left; top to bottom): Photo © Harold Malde (Big Spring Outflow Channel); © Mark Godfrey (Prairie State Park); © Susan Heisel (Howard and Joyce Wood).