Photo by Dave Ramsey, Border region of Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests.
Southern Conservation Partners helps local initiatives and communities across the southern US to save, restore, and enhance premier environmental resources and natural heritage assets. We promote innovative collaborations designed to conserve and care for the South's natural and cultural heritage and ecological health. We believe in the power of partnerships, creativity, and storytelling ​to build respect and care for the South's natural heritage.

Board of Directors
     {See a list of Our Advisors HERE.}
  • Charles Roe, President   Southeast U.S. Regional Program Director for the Land Trust Alliance (retired); founding Director of the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, NC Natural Heritage Foundation, and Conservation Trust for North Carolina. 
  • Milo Pyne, Board Chair   NatureServe senior regional ecologist (retired); past President of NC Friends of Plant Conservation and Eno River Association; actively involved with other nonprofit conservation and community organizations.
  • Julie H. Moore, Vice Chair   US Fish & Wildlife Service, Office of Endangered Species-Ecological Services (retired); Longleaf Alliance founding Board member; current Chair of NC Plant Conservation Program advisory board; actively involved with other nonprofit conservation organizations and initiatives, including Venus Flytrap Champions.
  • John Taggart, Treasurer  Past Director NC Coastal Reserves Program (retired); conservation biology & ecology professor emeritus at UNC-Wilmington.
  • Hugh Archer   Co-founder and Executive Director of Kentucky Natural Lands Trust and Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission (retired); actively involved with other nonprofit conservation organizations. 
  • Charlotte Jones-Roe   Retired North Carolina Botanical Garden Director of Development and Conservation; actively involved with other nonprofit conservation and community organizations, including Raleigh Parks Foundation Board of Directors.
  • Nelwyn McInnis   President Southern Wild Heritage, LLC; Land Trust for Louisiana advisory board member and Chair of its Land Conservation Committee; retired from 25-year career with The Nature Conservancy-Louisiana as a Program Manager specializing in wetlands mitigation.
  • Kathleen Williams   Founder and President/Executive Director of Tennessee Parks & Greenways Foundation (TennGreen) (retired).

​Our Goals

  • Encourage and strengthen capabilities of local initiatives to save, safeguard, and sustain the best of the South’s natural heritage.
  • Forge connections and foster collaboration among groups and individuals sharing environmental concerns and demonstrating effective conservation strategies and practices .
  • Help local project leaders improve skills so they can manage their programs effectively and attain their environmental conservation objectives.
  • Champion and advocate for protection and defense of important natural areas and imperiled elements of natural diversity

How It Works

  • SCP is a service center that provides matchmaking, educational, and project fiscal sponsorship assistance.
  • SCP is designed to be an entrepreneurial, innovative, adaptive, opportunity-oriented, and resourceful change agent.
  • SCP does not hold land or conservation easements; we are not a membership organization.

​All who are concerned about environmental protection and the survival of our natural heritage must act to defend the integrity of our legal system and the bedrock environmental laws and public funds that protect our communities and environmental assets. ​See our DEFENSE section.

Friends of the Black River NC

Southern Conservation Partners is collaborating with individuals and allied organizations who want to assure long-term protection, security, and integrity of North Carolina’s extraordinary Black River and its primary tributary streams.
​     A major tributary to the Cape Fear River, this stream’s ecological and historical heritage includes swamp forests containing bald cypress trees that are 1000 to nearly 3000 years old: the oldest known wetland trees in the world and the largest surviving expanse of old-growth swamp forest
left in eastern North America!! 
Visit FRIENDS OF THE BLACK RIVER NC website. 
READ one person's experience with these ancient trees on our blog.

​​(Photo courtesy of Dan Griffin.)

Of Special Interest
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Learn about the effort to conserve Nashville's Highland Rim Forest

Breaking! The Amphibian Foundation must relocate its facility and needs your help!
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Photo by Brady Beck
Venus Flytrap Champions: an
exciting conservation collaboration
Southern Conservation Partners
​P.O. Box 33222,  Raleigh N.C. 27636-3222
    Phone: 919-500-6598