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A Campaign To Protect the Triangle's Land and Water For All

Act now to conserve our wild and working lands forever.

A Campaign To Protect the Triangle's Land and Water for All

Act now to conserve our wild and working lands forever.

Open spaces, wild places, and working lands across the Triangle face unprecedented pressure from rapid growth, rising land prices, and a changing climate. Once land is developed, it is gone forever.

Triangle Land Conservancy is meeting this urgent moment
with Force for Nature: A Campaign to Protect the Triangle’s Land & Water for All, our most ambitious fundraising effort ever to raise $60 million by June 30, 2026.

Since launching in 2023, campaign support has already been put to use to protect land, restored habitats, safeguard clean water, and expanded access to nature across our region.

As the campaign enters these last few months, your support is essential. Today, we invite you to consider a meaningful gift to the campaign — we have less than $1.2 million left meet our goal.

Together we can protect what makes the Triangle special, now and for future generations.

Be a force for nature. 

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Campaign Funding Priorities

Campaign Progress Report

TLC has immediately put campaign donations to use in this community.  

Together with campaign donors, we have:

  • Conserved 5,200+ acres across 55 projects.
  • Increased Natural Heritage Areas and wildlife corridors.
  • Implemented work to restore wildlife habitats at preserves and protected lands.
  • Strengthened and expanded our PINES Fellowship, which mentors high school students who are interested in conservation careers.
  • Protected more farmland and increased access to land for farmers through TLC's Good Ground Initiative and Williamson Farm Program.
  • Renovated an historic hunting lodge into a satellite office for the TLC team.
  • Supported expert personnel, technology, and internal resources to protect and care for more land.

Critical Priorities Ahead

Now and into the future, we must protect, restore, and maintain even more land.

Together with TLC by 2030, you will:

  • Protect another 4,000 acres of wild and working lands.
  • Build new trails and open TLC's 8th nature preserve in May 2026.
  • Fund ecological restoration and stewardship of land that is not open to the public to provide healthy wildlife habitat and corridors.
  • Repair and renovate infrastructure at public preserves.
  • Support expert personnel to care for the land that we own and host program that welcome all to experience the benefits of nature.
  • Carry on your legacy and commitment to nature by including TLC in your estate plans.

42 Years of Conservation

27,000+ Acres Protected

Where We Protect

307 Miles of Stream Protection

42 Potential Projects Waiting For Funding

“I love TLC and all that it stands for and does for our community. TLC properties are such great refuges for birds, animals, and people.”
“I just really love the outdoors. For me, it’s the belief in something bigger than myself and also having the ability to leave a legacy, because this is all we’ve got.”
“I love to run and hike in all your nature preserves! Thank you for the great upkeep. I am a first responder and NEED them.”
"I love TLC and all that it stands for and does for our community. TLC properties are such great refuges for birds, animals, and people. Thank you for all that you do!"
"I support TLC because I strongly believe that all humans must participate in preserving open land for our health and the health of our planet."
"I've seen the Triangle grow for over 65 years, grew up playing outside, and wish to save as much of Nature here as possible for future generations of all species. TLC does an excellent job managing its land and trail systems."
Visit Triangle Land Conservancy

P.O. Box 1848
Durham, NC 27702
919-908-8809
triangleland.org

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Vanishing Wildlife Habitat

Worldwide we are experiencing the greatest acceleration in animal and plant species extinction in human history. North Carolina is one of the most biodiverse states in the country, yet rapid development across the Triangle is destroying natural habitats at an alarming rate.

Increase in Natural Disasters

Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency causing flooding, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, and massive wildfires. Lower-income communities are disproportionately impacted, largely due to historical racial inequities.

Inequitable Access to Land and Nature

For generations, people of color were denied access to public parks and beaches. By 2050, people of color will make up 45% of our local population yet nearly 75% of US communities of color lack access to safe and maintained outdoor spaces — compared with 23% of White communities. We must inspire and engage more diverse citizens to advocate for equity in land ownership and promote preservation.

Declining Public Health

Experts recently declared a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health with rates of depression, anxiety, and trauma soaring. Children spend an average of 6.5 hours a day in front of a screen and almost half of adults don’t get enough physical activity that is key to preventing chronic conditions like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and depression.

Disappearing Farms

By 2040, North Carolina is expected to develop 11% of its farmland, nearly 1.2 million acres, the second-highest rate of conversion in the country. Johnston and Wake are the 19th and 32nd most vulnerable counties in the U.S. Since 2014, Wake County has lost 22,964 acres of farm and forest land — that’s almost 20%. Historically, land ownership by Black farmers has dropped more than 85% in the US over the last century.

Exponential Growth and Development

North Carolina is one of the fastest-growing states in the nation, and the Triangle is predicted to attract 40% of projected growth. In the last decade, one in four new residents moved to Wake County, and Johnston County is seeing the fastest percentage growth in the state. The pace of development is forcing land prices to skyrocket throughout the region.