For our 35th wedding anniversary I chose to give my husband a gift of helping the coral reef rather than exploiting it (coral is the 35th year gift). He grew up on a lake resort and water and its' ecosystem is precious to him.

I heard a man interviewed by Terry Gross, he said he planted 100 thousand trees, to mitigate the CO2 from his travel. I was inspired, at the end of the show I found out he was Sting. I didn't have enough money to plant 100 thousand trees but I planted a few. Reforestation is the #1 way to stop global warming and the damage it is doing to all animals and plants and to the Earth our home.

It's Mother's Day. In honor of my 94-yr-old mother and the near-sanctuary in her backyard near Texas' San Jacinto River, I'm making a donation. The card depicts Monarch butterflies. Perhaps she would prefer dragonflies, even the Crimson Skimmers which ornament her lily pool!

I grew up in the mountains and have always loved nature. As a child I would think, "When I grow up, I'll be rich and will buy lots of beautiful land, not to build on, but to save just the way it is for the plants and animals". I grew up, I didn't get rich, but by donating to Nature Conservancy I can still help buy lots of beautiful land to save, just the way it is, for the plants and animals.

I am a hiker and birder and see a great need to preserve what remains of the wild. Also, I recently read Jeremy Wade's book about fishing wish brought into stark reality the incredible man-made changes the world's rivers have undergone in the past 150 years so that they are clearly in a state of crisis today. We are stewards of our planet but we're doing a poor job of taking care of it, and if we don't act now we are hurting ourselves and all life and beauty.

I love nature! I have always had a sincere appreciation of God's beautiful creations and it hurts my heart that so many plants and animals are now extinct due to the selfishness of us humans.

Through the SC Master Naturalists Program, I have helped with cleanup etc. and wish to keep up with opportunities to do what I can with my time to help preserve our valuable natural resources. I am currently retired on disability so my financial and physical resources are limited, but I believe energy to be of great value. This I can contribute.

We recently moved to a beautiful corner of southeast North Carolina. From the back porch we see the tides on the salt marsh. I am learning to kayak. This morning hundreds of white ibis arrived to feed on fiddler crabs. The ibis haven't been seen here since 2008, so this is very exciting! I want my and every one else's grandchildren's grandchildren to enjoy this and for sea turtles to follow the gulf stream scarfing up jelly fish like popcorn for eons. This is a small way to contribute to the possibility. I appreciate the partnership between Delta and NC in promoting conservation.

I have been a member of the NC forever it seems. I can't donate a lot and do small amounts for various purposes throughout the year. I just did a small donation for Dominican Republic in response to the email about the coral reefs. I'm a fiber, bead and paper artist whose focus has always been the natural world, including sea life. When I read about the group that did the crocheted coral reef, naturally a widely exhibited crochet artist I was very interested. After a museum show many years back I cut back drastically on making large crocheted wall hangings, although I do have several devoted to the sea and nature. Instead, I decided to do a mini installation of a beaded coral reef, using seed beads, pearls, gemstones, crystals and other very small beads. I'm probably about 1/2 done and just had it accepted as an exhibit at the Akins House in Pawling, NY. Except for local mini viewings in Columbia County NY on rare occasions, it has not had a viewing. I am excited about this upcoming show. I would be pleased to send you pictures or refer you to my Facebook page wildbraidart where parts of it can be seen.

I just booked a flight on Delta's website, and I saw a partnership to the carbon offset program. It gave me an exact estimate of how much I should donate to offset my air travel. This was the first time I've seen it, and I thought it was an awesome idea, and an awesome partnership between The Nature Conservancy and Delta, so I wanted to support that.