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North America’s Vanishing Wetlands: Facing the Challenge

Become a Sponsor! You can help stem wetland loss by becoming a sponsor of Ducks Unlimited’s Wetlands for Tomorrow campaign. Click here to learn how.

To answer the challenge to save North America's wetlands, grasslands and waterfowl, Ducks Unlimited has embarked upon the Wetlands for Tomorrow campaign, an ambitious continental effort to raise $1.7 billion for wetland habitat conservation.

With a proven track record of partnering with the private sector, government and other conservation organizations for nearly 70 years, Ducks Unlimited has restored and conserved almost 12 million acres of crucial habitat that benefits waterfowl, other wildlife and people.

Wetlands For Tomorrow Strategic Initiatives

The Wetlands for Tomorrow campaign will focus on these strategic initiatives:

The North American Grasslands Conservation Initiative
Goal: Protect and restore the world's best waterfowl-breeding habitat in South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.

The Western Boreal Forest Conservation Initiative
Goal: Protect existing wetland systems in western Canada and Alaska that are crucial to the breeding efforts of waterfowl and other migratory birds.

The Louisiana Coastal Conservation Initiative
Goal: Protect and restore imperiled Gulf Coast marshlands that provide wintering habitat for millions of ducks, geese and other wildlife species.

North America's Threatened Wetlands Conservation Initiative
Goal: Protect, restore and manage vital wetlands in strategic locations across the continent.

The Pintail Conservation Initiative
Goal: Conserve and restore important breeding habitat in Alberta, Saskatchewan and the northern plains of the United States, as well as in key migration and wintering habitat in California's Central Valley, the Klamath Basin, the Gulf Coast and Mexico.

The Mallard Conservation Initiative
Goal: Conserve vital breeding, migration and wintering habitat in the Great Lakes region, the Chesapeake Bay, the Mississippi River watershed, the Columbia Basin and key areas of California.

The Educating Youth About Wetlands Initiative
Goal: Educate students throughout North America about the importance of wetlands to waterfowl, other wildlife and people.

The Strategic Conservation Initiative Fund
Goal: Establish a venture capital fund, positioning Ducks Unlimited to respond quickly to urgent, high-priority conservation needs and opportunities, such as major land acquisitions and easements.

Endowment Initiative
Goal: Increase the current endowment to provide greater financial certainty in support of DU's vital conservation mission and research programs.

The need to conserve North America’s wetlands has never been greater. Canada’s wetlands and grasslands have traditionally produced more than half of North America’s waterfowl and play a crucial role in sustaining many other wildlife populations. Sadly, in some parts of Canada nearly three-fourths of the original wetlands are now gone. The picture isn’t any brighter in the United States, where more than half the original wetlands have been lost, and more than 80,000 wetland acres disappear each year.