Conservation and environmental protection on the shore has many facets and includes a delicate balance between open space, clean energy, agriculture, development and wildlife. Check out the new and ongoing conservation efforts with some Lower Shore partners below.

GENERAL

+ Maryland League of Conservation Voters

+ Chesapeake Bay Foundation

+ Assateague Coastal Trust

+ Maryland Biodiversity Project

GROWTH & PLANNING

+ Preservation Maryland

+ Assateague Coastal Trust

LAND CONSERVATION

+ The Nature Conservancy

+ Lower Shore Land Trust

+ Chesapeake Conservancy

+ Eastern Shore Land Conservancy

OCEANS

+ Surfrider Foundation, Ocean City Chapter

+ Oceana

+ Ocean Law, U.S. E.P.A.

+ 10 things you can do to protect our oceans

+ United Nations oceans law

BIRDS

+ Audubon Maryland-DC

+ Maryland Ornithological Society

+ Maryland Bird Conservation Partnership