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Mission Statement SWMLC works to conserve the scenic and ecologically important landscapes that give our region its natural character — now and for generations to come. SWMLC seeks to: • Safeguard natural areas, open spaces and waterways through gifts, land purchases, and conservation easements; • Strategically select properties based on their distinct ecological features and the value they provide as agricultural land and wildlife habitat; • Encourage broad public participation in conservation through a non-partisan, non-adversarial approach to land protection; • Promote a healthy vision of community where people from diverse backgrounds can benefit from the restorative powers of nature; • Provide places where people can recreate, reflect, restore habitat, and grow in their knowledge and love of the natural world. Vision SWMLC envisions a southwest Michigan that is environmentally healthy, economically vibrant, and naturally beautiful.

People dedicated to preserving, restoring, and enjoying the natural world trough education and action.

Connecting people, resources, and solutions to create lasting impact in our shared world.

A world in which youth and adult learn, grow and work together as catalysts for positive change.

Bat Conservation International’s mission is to conserve the world’s bats and their ecosystems to ensure a healthy planet.

LightHawk's mission is the champion environmental protection through the unique perspective of flight. Our goal is to mobilize enough volunteer pilots, aircraft and resources to help tip the balance toward sustainability for every major environmental issue within our targeted areas of focus. LightHawk helps to address environmental issues through: Educational flights over contested landscapes to convert abstract proposals into something passengers can grasp has a powerful ability to transcend all personal ideologies, change hearts and minds, build commitment, and lead to action. Technical flights are often the only practical way to obtain objective data on patterns of human and wildlife use. Technical flights include aerial photography, scientific data-gathering, wildlife surveys, and ground-truthing data obtained from satellites, high-altitude photography, or computer modeling. All  flights are donated by our corps of volunteer pilots.

Thlong-range vision is: “To forever protect and preserve the natural features of Lemon Bay, Charlotte Harbor, their surrounding waters and uplands, and vital fish and wildlife habitat, through property preservation, environmental education and advocacy for sustainable land and water conservation policies and practices.”To support that long-range vision, we focus our mission in three areas: Saving land;Environmental education; andAdvocacy for sustainable environmental policies.

The Friends of Seven Islands State Birding Park is a 501c3 corporation that was formed in May of 2015 to support the Seven Islands State Birding Park. Our mission is to support Seven Islands State Birding Park in its vision to be a world class birding destination and to protect, preserve and promote its natural resources and to promote the general education of the public. Our membership provides funding for park projects as well as be a source of volunteers to assist the park in various ways

The Celebration of the Sea Foundation works to ENGAGE, EDUCATE and INSPIRE people around the world to protect the ocean and the world’s natural resources. A specific focus of all our initiatives is to develop resilient communities and promote STREAM (Science, Technology, Resiliency, Engineering, Arts & Music) education and career paths.

"Protecting our water, our land, our communities" Working for a healthy ecosystem with clean water and open spaces for human and wildlife communities, where people work together to sustain mutual economic and environmental well-being in the Nashua River watershed. Founded in 1969, the Nashua River Watershed Association uses a watershed approach to protect natural resources in 32 communities in north central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.

The Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation protects and restores Iowa's land, water and wildlife. This donor-supported, private nonprofit conservation organization works to ensure Iowans will always have beautiful natural areas – to bike, hike, and paddle – to recharge, relax and refresh – to keep Iowa healthy and vibrant. We've helped permanently protect over 180,000 acres of Iowa prairies, woodlands, lakes and rivers and blazed the way for Iowa's trails.

WildEarth Guardians, formally Forest Guardians and Sinapu, was founded in 1989 to protect one of the last ancient forests in New Mexico, but has since transformed into one of the most powerful and effective advocates for greater environmental protection in the entire Southwest and Southern Rockies. We believe that the diversity of wildlife, plants and ecosystems, and our untrammeled wild spaces hold the key to the rehabilitation of an impoverished region whose economy and culture are inextricably tied to a healthy land.