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The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working to protect the most ecologically important lands and waters around the world for nature and people. To date, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 15 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 102 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. The Mississippi River has been designated a global priority by The Nature Conservancy as part of its Campaign for a Sustainable Planet to protect lands and waters in the United States and around the world for future generations. The Conservancy's goal is to help protect at least 10 percent of each of the world's major habitat types -- forests, oceans, rivers and lakes, grasslands, and deserts and dry lands -- by the year 2015. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at http://www.nature.org.
The Iowa Soybean Association develops policies and programs that help farmers expand profit opportunities while promoting environmentally sensitive production using the soybean checkoff and other resources. The Association is governed by an elected volunteer board of 21 farmers. To learn more about our association, please visit: http://www.iasoybeans.com.
Delta Wildlife was founded in 1990 for the specific purpose of conserving,
enhancing and restoring native wildlife habitats, wildlife populations and
natural resources found in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta region of Northwest
Mississippi. With a membership base that owns and manages more than 60
percent of all the land in the region, the organizati
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