Who We Are
We Save The Lands You Love at the Coast
The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust conserves lands with scenic, recreational, historic and/or ecological value. Our mission is to enrich our state through conservation of natural areas and working landscapes, education, and the promotion of good land stewardship in our coastal communities. In short, we save the lands you love along the North Carolina Coast.
The Coastal Land Trust is a high-performing, accredited, regional land trust with a reputation for excellence. Established in 1992, we serve the 31 counties in the coastal plain of North Carolina, and we save special places in the coastal plain like barrier islands, create nature parks and preserves, protect family farms, and restore longleaf pine forests.
Our team includes an engaged and energetic board of directors comprised of leaders in law, biology, finance, philanthropy, business, management and education. Our talented, experienced and dedicated staff share a passion for nature and a commitment to protecting important natural areas for generations to come.
To achieve our mission of conservation, education, and the promotion of good land stewardship, we need an array of voices which reflect the communities where we work and serve embodied in our board, staff, interns, volunteers, members, partners and program participants. Through awareness and action, we seek to consciously build in and elevate diversity, equity and inclusion in our work in North Carolina’s coastal communities.
We are committed to working towards inclusivity for all, regardless of ability, age, cultural background, ethnicity, faith, familial status, gender identity and expression, ideology, language, nationality, race, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, military and/or veteran status and other dimensions of diversity.
We are a non-partisan, non-adversarial, membership-based nonprofit conservation organization. Our work is data-driven and science-based, illustrated most dramatically in the adoption of a Top 40 list of priority conservation projects that provides the focus of our ambitious conservation plan to save and restore the most imperiled lands in the coastal plain.
