Help us protect the Chesapeake one step at a time! Join us on November 10, 2024 or sponsor a team. Runner and walkers are welcome. We offer discounted fundraising minimums for participants 18 and younger and family members who you recruit.
While nothing beats the experience of seeing the beauty of the Chesapeake firsthand, we’ve created virtual river tours along the trail, similar to Google Street View, so that you can explore the Chesapeake.
Legislation has been introduced that would create a 21st-century park for the Chesapeake! If passed into law, the legislation will designate a unified Chesapeake National Recreation Area (CNRA) as part of the National Park System. Learn how you can suppport!
Learn about our data-driven campaign to protect 30% of the Chesapeake's lands by 2030 as some of the world’s leading scientists are calling for dramatic increases in conservation efforts and habitat protection at a global scale.
A private donor, Chesapeake Conservancy and NFWF helped return 465 acres of their ancestral homeland to the Rappahannock Tribe. However, nearby land along Fones Cliffs remains unprotected and vulnerable.
Together with our partners, Chesapeake Conservancy is using precision conservation to create a healthier environment upstream, for a healthier Chesapeake Bay downstream. Restoration is possible through partnerships and a data-driven approach—starting with the streams. Watch this brief 3-minute video to see for yourself!
Check out this new resource! Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation and Chesapeake Conservancy partnered together to shine a light on historically Black beaches and related places in the Chesapeake watershed.
A new public waterfront park shares the Chesapeake's Black history at an important cultural and historic site for Black Americans in Annapolis, Maryland. Photo Credit: Maryland State Archives, MSA SC 2140-1-155
