South Carolina – Coastal Environmental Organizations

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Environmental & Conservation Organizations for the SC Coast

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• Audubon Society
  – Charleston Audubon Society
  – Hilton Head Audubon Society
  

• Belle W. Baruch Foundation - manages Hobcaw Barony, a 17,500-acre wildlife refuge in Georgetown County
  
• Beaufort County Open Land Trust

• Cape Romain Bird Observatory
• Center for Birds of Prey - Charleston
• Charleston Area Beekeepers Association
• Charleston Earth Force - engages youth to improve the environment
  
• Charleston Parks Conservancy
• Charleston Peace - environmental and social activism group
• Charleston Water Keeper - improving the quality of local waterways
  
• Coastal Conservation Association South Carolina
• Coastal Conservation League

• Edisto Island Freecycle - recycle bulletin board for free items
  
• Edisto Island Open Land Trust
• Edisto Island Preservation Alliance
• Edisto River Canoe & Kayak Trail Commission

• Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program
• Friends of Fort Fremont Historical Park
• Friends of Hunting Island State Park
• Friends of the Edisto - Edisto River Basin

• Go Green Charleston - learn how to lessen your impact on the environment
  – Local recycling locations - click red pin for details
  
• Green Drinks Charleston - monthly social gatherings for those interested in meeting other environmentally-friendly people
  – Carrotmob Charleston - event to support socially responsible businesses
  

• Hobcaw Barony - Georgetown County - 17,500-acre wildlife refuge
  

• Island Turtle Team - Isle of Palms

• Johns Island Conservancy

• Keep Charleston Beautiful
• Keep North Charleston Beautiful
• Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy
• Kiawah Island Turtle Patrol

• Long Island - preserving this inland estuary marsh island between Folly Beach and James Island
  
• Lowcountry Environmental Education Programs - Charleston - teaching about the environment through experiential learning
  
• Lowcountry Estuarium - Port Royal
• Lowcountry Institute - educates on importance of conservation around Port Royal Sound, considered to be a unique environment with special water and land quality issues
  
• Lowcountry Open Land Trust

• Nemours Wildlife Foundation - Beaufort
• Nix 526 - Charleston - working to stop the extension of the I-526 beltway through rural Johns Island and James Island
• North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve - Georgetown
  

• Ridgeland Freecycle - bulletin board for free items
  

• Santee Riverkeeper - improve and protect the Santee River, Lake Marion, and Lake Moultrie
  
• Save the Angel Oak - Johns Island - working to save the forest around the Angel Oak Tree from development
  
• Save Pinckney Colony - Beaufort - working to prevent large-scale development
  
• SEWEE Association - Mount Pleasant - South Eastern Wildlife and Environment Education Association - works to preserve National Wildlife Refuges and National Forests and provide education programs
  
• Slow Food Charleston - promoting local cuisine, organic foods
  
• South Atlantic Fishery Management Council - headquartered in Charleston - responsible for the conservation and management of fish stocks off the coasts of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and east Florida
  
• South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
• South Carolina Coastal Information Network - education, training for coastal community officials
  
• South Carolina Environmental Law Project - Pawleys Island - legal services and advice to environmental organizations
• Sustainability Institute - North Charleston - workshops & info to make existing homes more energy-efficient
• Surfrider Foundation - works to protect SC oceans, waves, beaches
  – Charleston Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation
  – Grand Strand Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation - Myrtle Beach
  

• Waccamaw Riverkeeper Program - Winyah Rivers Foundation