Welcome to the Coastal Conservation League

OUR MISSION is to protect the natural environment of the South Carolina coastal plain and to enhance the quality of our life of our communities by working with individuals, businesses and government to ensure balanced solutions.

Since 1989, the Coastal Conservation League has been working with communities, businesses, other conservation and citizen groups, and people like you, to protect what we love about the South Carolina coast. From the white sand beaches and pristine marshes to the freshwater swamps and pine savannahs, we focus on the most efficient and effective ways to protect natural habitats, the wildlife that depends on them, and the variety of benefits they bring to this state. We also believe that the communities we live in, the air we breathe, and the water we depend upon are important, and that our quality of life deserves the same high level of attention.

We at the Coastal Conservation League are defined not by a single project we work against or advocate for, but by the future we work toward.  That future is one in which we grow our economy in smart, creative, sustainable ways that help realize the potential of our people and our resources without robbing our children of theirs; a future in which we do more than fight an endless series of battles against an endless series of foes – rather one in which we strive to find a common ground of enlightened self-interest that allows all our citizens to thrive in all aspects of their lives;  a future in which we defeat the real and symbolic landfills that would make us the nation’s dumping ground of a decaying economy, and develop  models for initiatives like local sustainable agriculture or clean energy that would make us the nation’s proving ground for a new economy.