We preserve and protect our natural environment
The Provincetown Conservation Trust is a private, non-profit (501c3) organization, founded in 1980, dedicated to preserving the woods, wetlands, heathlands, dunes and forests of Provincetown, home to a great variety of native flora and fauna, some of it not found anywhere else. These natural habitats are an important Greenway, key links in the wildlife corridors of Cape Cod, and vital to the ecological health of the United States Eastern Seaboard. Our uplands provide habitats not found in the Cape Cod National Seashore.
our vision
Widespread residential development, in the form of new condominiums and subdivisions, has replaced much of Provincetown's natural lands. Yet the Provincetown Conservation Trust exists because so many people have the will and the desire to protect our dunes, forests, woods, bogs, marshes, thickets and swamps, and all the creatures that depend on them.
Our beaches, our fish and our shellfish need clean upland buffers to protect them. Our fresh water sources need clean marshlands and swamplands to filter and preserve them. Our beachfront town needs woodlands and dunes to guard it against erosion.
Protecting and preserving Provincetown's natural beauty will not only benefit residents, but help attract artists and writers, visitors and ecotourists from around the world.
The Community Preservation Committee voted to recommend $155,000 in Community Preservation funding toward the purchase of this special woodland parcel within the Provincetown Greenway. This recommendation brings us one significant step closer to permanently protecting this important wildlife corridor and natural landscape. But town voters must approve this in Articles 10 & 14 on the warrant at Town Meeting on April 6th.
There are many articles which are important to conservation that the PCT is supporting at this year’s Town Meeting on April 6th. This includes an article on acquiring 43 Atkins Mayo Road for the Josephine Del Deo Memorial Woodland, CPA funding toward that purchase, funding expansion assessment for Old Colony Nature Pathway and managing invasive species. Please download our Guide to Voting Green at Town Meeting to keep informed of the articles which matter the most to the environment and conservation and be sure to attend on April 6th and have your voice heard!