Investment

In Conservation

As you assess your commitment to DU or any other conservation group, or as you approach others to do the same, consider asking the following questions:

Has your conservation Organization…

• Gained the support of more than 1 million people?
• Maintained its historic commitment to conservation and waterfowl hunting?
• Rallied a force of 70,000 unpaid fundraising volunteers?
• Delivered on-the-ground habitat conservation work for more than 65 years?
• Conserved almost 11 million acres of wetlands and other wildlife habitat?
• Regularly spent more than 83 percent of its revenue on conservation?
• Developed an international strategic conservation plan based on the most up-to-date science?
• Assembled a staff of conservation professionals that includes the world’s leading authorities on waterfowl, wetlands, and environmental engineering?
• Delivered its conservation work in a cooperative, non-confrontational manner with a myriad of partners, especially private landowners?
• Played a leadership role to secure vital programs like CRP and WRP?
• Been described by the President of the United States as “the model by which consercation should be delivered in America ?”
• Maintained a youth program that includes hunting education, duck banding, bird ID, classroom curricula, and conservation?
• Been endorsed through hundreds of consumer products cobranded with prominent partners?
• Produced a bimonthly magazine; a weekly television show; a daily radio program; and a nationally recognized website, all of which celebrate waterfowl hunting and conservation?

If you are a DU Member, all the answers are YES!