DU’s #1 conservation focus area – the Prairie Pothole Region – provides Texas with the vast majority of our waterfowl migration. Over 75% of the banded ducks harvested in Texas originate in this critical portion of the breeding grounds.

DU and our conservation partners have conserved over 5.6 million acres of critical waterfowl habitat in the provinces and states that make up the Prairie Pothole Region.

The revenues raised at local DU events are the primary funds that drive our habitat conservation on the breeding grounds, particularly the Prairie Pothole Region. The best way Texas duck hunters can help protect these vital habitats is by volunteering for their local DU committee to help raise the dollars needed to drive this invaluable work.

Our local DU event system would fail to exist without the volunteers who run and manage the local chapters across the country.

Over 90% of the public projects DU has performed work on between Texas and the Prairie Pothole Region (Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska) are open to hunting.

Over 90% of the public projects DU has performed work on in Texas are open to hunting.

DU is the ONLY waterfowl conservation organization with a membership program designed especially for kids.

DU is the ONLY waterfowl conservation organization with a Washington DC staff whose purpose is to work with lawmakers to see that waterfowl needs are represented when congressional issues will have an impact on waterfowl habitat.

DU and our partners have performed over $14 million worth of conservation projects in Texas impacting over 134,000 acres.

DU coastal habitat projects in Texas (Laguna Atascosa, Mad Island, JD Murphree, Aransas NWR, San Bernard NWR, Anahuac NWR, and Guadalupe Delta to name just a few) also greatly benefit saltwater game fish like Redfish & Trout.

DU ranks 120 out of almost 1,000,000 non-profit organizations in the United States in terms of organizational efficiency.

Under policy dictated by DU’s Board of Directors, over 80% of all revenues raised by our organization must go towards our conservation mission. In 2005 86% of all revenues went towards the conservation, restoration, and protection of waterfowl habitat.

United States President George W. Bush has described Ducks Unlimited as “the model by which all conservation should be delivered in America.”

Duck hunters founded DU in 1937 and hunters make up 90% of our current membership.

While DU’s #1 priority is waterfowl, over 900 species of wildlife benefit from our conservation work.

DU has conserved over 11,000,000 acres of waterfowl habitat in North America, more than any other conservation organization in existence.

NOBODY cares for Texas duck hunters and our heritage more than Ducks Unlimited. Our vital habitat work guarantees the resource for future generations.

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