Cape Fear Arch Conservation Collaboration
A Collaborative Voice for Nature
The Cape Fear Arch Conservation Collaboration is a nonprofit partnership of organizations and individuals created in 2006 to realize a vision for the Cape Fear Arch region where man’s and nature’s needs are properly balanced.
Our mission is to develop and implement a community conservation vision to build awareness, protection and stewardship of the region’s important resources.
About the Cape Fear Arch
The Cape Fear Arch region encompasses an area defined by a unique geological feature formed 35-45 million years ago during the Cretaceous age by an uplift of sand and limestone.
This biologically diverse region extends from Cape Lookout, NC south to Cape Romaine, SC and from the submerged continental shelf west to beyond Fayetteville, NC.
The sand and limestone deposits found on the Cape Fear Arch have given rise to unique natural communities and a diversity of plants and animals. Many of these species are endemic to the region, meaning they are found nowhere else in the world.
The Cape Fear Arch includes:
- 50 different natural communities
- 300 species of animals and plants
- 19 federally threatened or endangered species
- 63 state threatened or endangered species
- 22 endemic species of plants
- 19 endemic species of animals
- 100% of the world’s native Venus flytraps
- The oldest trees east of the Rocky Mountains, including a 1,700-year-old Bald Cypress
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