Longleaf pine forests once dominated the United States southern landscape from southeast Virginia to eastern Texas. But after decades of logging and fire suppression, restoring these towering conifers — and the rare species they sustain—could prove to be a tall order. The Nature Conservancy is working across the Southeast to conserve remaining longleaf-pine forests and restore degraded ones.

Did you know that protecting one acre of mature forest from destruction is equivalent to taking 30 cars off the road for one year? When you Adopt an Acre of rainforest in the Southern Forests, you are protecting valuable trees and preventing the release of carbon into the air. In this video, Forest Ecologist Laura Marx explains how much carbon a typical tree stores, and how that compares to the carbon we emit in our daily lives.

See how your support is making a difference in the cypress-tupelo swamps and longleaf pine forests of the Southern Coastal Plains Forests. Read this letter from Director of Forest Conservation Paul Trianosky thanking you for your support of this critical landscape.

In the largest private land conservation sale in the history of the South, The Nature Conservancy and The Conservation Fund protected 218,000 acres of forestlands across 10 southern states. Read more about this exciting deal in the Nature Conservancy magazine article, "Sale of the Century."