Wilmington – Finding great spots to enjoy the Cape Fear Region just got easier thanks to a new web site created by the Cape Fear Arch Conservation Collaboration. The website showcases many of the unique and amazing animals and plants that live in the region including pitcher plants and the Venus fly trap as well as the partners who work towards its preservation (http://www.capefeararch.org/). It also provides an interactive guide that profiles accessible parks, trails and other recreational opportunities in the immediate area.
The Cape Fear Arch is a geologic feature, an area slightly uplifted relative to the rest of the coastal plain, even standing as a peninsula at certain times when the rest of the coastal plain was submerged. The Arch stretches from Cape Lookout in North Carolina to Cape Romain in South Carolina.
The Cape Fear Arch is a region of particularly high biological diversity and supports many special habitats and creatures found nowhere else in the world. It provides a wide range of natural-resource- based outdoor recreational opportunities such as fishing, hunting, camping, hiking and canoeing. Many residents and visitors come to the area because of that environment.
The Cape Fear Arch Conservation Collaboration is an ad hoc group of private and public conservation organizations, resource and government agencies created in 2006 to realize a vision for the Cape Fear Arch region where man’s and nature’s needs are properly balanced. The mission of the Cape Fear Arch Conservation Collaborative is to develop and implement a community conservation vision to build awareness, protection and stewardship of the region’s important resources.