National Friendship Day

Today is National Friendship Day. For the past 75 years, people around the country and the world have taken time on this day to honor and celebrate that most special relationship: friendship.

As such, we wanted to let you know about our own group of friends: Friends of The Nature Conservancy.

Comprised of members who support the Conservancy on a monthly basis, Friends of The Nature Conservancy allows members to provide the consistent, long-term support that is essential to effective conservation. It is one of the easiest ways to have a significant impact.

Your monthly gift will make a lasting difference for our natural world. The sustained support of our friends helps us achieve remarkable results, including to:

• Help bring together the leaders of six island nations to launch the Coral Triangle Initiative
• Protect the 4,528-acre Shasta Big Springs Ranch in northern California, which will help protect one of the most productive salmon streams in the state
• Transfer more than 3,000 acres in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to indigenous communities to expand their ancestral territory
• Work with partners to reconnect 25 square miles of floodplain forest to Louisiana's Ouachita River

Plans like these require long-term planning and long-term support. They require commitment. They require friends.

So on this National Friendship Day, please join Friends of The Nature Conservancy today.

Thank you for your commitment to our work and the natural world that sustains us all.

Sincerely,

Begoña Vázquez-Santos
Director of Membership
The Nature Conservancy

p.s. In honor of National Friendship Day, send your friends a free nature ecard. Or if you're on Facebook, please become our Facebook friend too!