Places We Protect
Learn about the places The Nature Conservancy protects in Alabama.
Open To Visitors
Barton's Beach on the Cahaba
Perry County, AL
The Nature Conservancy's Barton's Beach Preserve has long served as an important nesting area for turtles.
Bibb County Glades Preserve
Bibb County, Alabama
The Nature Conservancy's Kathy Stiles Freeland Bibb County Glades Preserve, home to 61 rare plant species, is considered a botanical wonder.
Chitwood Barrens Preserve
The Nature Conservancy's Chitwood Barrens Preserve is home to many rare plant species like the green pitcher plant.
Dennis Cove Preserve
The Nature Conservancy's Dennis Cove Preserve is home to many rare and exotic birds.
Dry Creek Preserve
The Nature Conservancy's Dry Creek Preserve protects one of only a handful of populations of the endangered leather flower.
Fenvkvcēkv Creek Preserve
The Nature Conservancy's Fenvkvcēkv Creek Preserve at Flagg Mountain helps protect a key link in a wildlife corridor stretching from the Gulf of Mexico into the Appalachian Mountains.
Keel Mountain Preserve
The Nature Conservancy's Keel Mountain Preserve protects the federally endangered Morefield's leather flower.
Perdido River Preserve
Florida and Alabama
A living memorial to Betty and Crawford Rainwater, The Nature Conservancy's Perdido River Preserve is part of a significant protected corridor that runs through Alabama and Florida.
Prairie Grove Glades Preserve
The Nature Conservancy's Prairie Grove Glade Preserve contains the largest intact cedar glade complex in Alabama.
Pratt's Ferry Preserve
The Nature Conservancy's Pratt's Ferry Preserve is an ideal location to put in a canoe on the Cahaba River.
Roy B. Whitaker Preserve
At the 323-acre Roy B. Whitaker Preserve in the Paint Rock River watershed, The Nature Conservancy is working to restore native grasses and floodplain forests.
Splinter Hill Bog Preserve
At the Splinter Hill Bog Preserve, The Nature Conservancy is working to protect one of the last remaining pitcher plant seepage bogs in the world.
Walls of Jericho Preserve
The Nature Conservancy's Walls of Jericho Preserve boasts the Limestone Cathedral and Alabama’s Mystic Canyon.
Landscape Conservation Areas
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Buttahatchie River Watershed
The Buttahatchie River originates in the hill country of northwest Alabama. Learn More
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Cahaba River
The Nature Conservancy works in this Landscape Conservation Area to protect the Cahaba River--Alabama's longest, free-flowing river. Learn More
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Gulf Islands
TNC has been working to protect this rapidly disappearing landscape conservation area since the 1970s. Learn More
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Lower Perdido Islands
Private and public partners are working together to keep the Perdido Islands the important and special place they are for people and nature.. Learn More
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Mobile-Tensaw Delta
This complex system of wetlands and forests is the second-largest intact delta system in North America—and it is teeming with life. Learn More
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Paint Rock River
The Paint Rock River Landscape Conservation Area supports an extremely diverse array of aquatic life, including some 100 species of fish and about 45 different mussel species. Learn More
Restricted Access
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Coosa Bog was the first Alabama acquisition for the Conservancy.
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The Rabbit Island Preserve supports many species and is an important site for migratory birds.
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TNC is protecting one of the few remaining locations of the imperiled Alabama canebrake pitch plant at the Roberta Case Pine Hills Preserve.
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A portion of the Wheeler Mountain Tract's 80-to-100-year-old montane longleaf pine forests support the largest known populations of red-cockaded woodpecker in the state.
Thanks to your support, The Nature Conservancy protects critical lands and waters in Alabama.
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