We invite you to join The Nature Conservancy for our annual Dallas Spring Party at the beautiful Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens on Friday, April 15, 2011, at 6:30 pm.

With your help, we can conserve and restore essential marine habitat in the Gulf of Mexico and around the world.

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The Nature Conservancy is at the forefront of efforts to protect Earth’s
oceans. This year, while we continue to conserve land and water across
Texas, our work along the Gulf of Mexico has a new underlying urgency.
The immediate need to invest in new and ongoing protection and
restoration efforts in the gulf is clear.

Join us to learn more
about the intersection of science-based strategies and our magnificent
oceans, and find out how you can be a part of protecting the Gulf of Mexico—The Blue Heart of Texas.

Marine
biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle will be this year's keynote speaker. Dr.
Earle has been an Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic since
1998, the year Time magazine named her the first “hero for the
planet.” A pioneering marine researcher, she has led more than 70 ocean
expeditions, and holds numerous diving records. She was the first female
chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), and helped establish marine protected areas
around the world, including the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National
Marine Monument—140,000 square miles of ocean home to more than 7,000
species of life.

She has authored more than 175 publications, including the 2009 book, The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One and the 2008 National Geographic book Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas.
Dr. Earle has received more than 100 national and international awards
and honors, including the prestigious 2009 TED Prize, bestowed on
individuals with a vision for changing the world.

For more information on the event or to purchase a table, please contact Victoria Curtin at (214) 871-6502, vcurtin@tnc.org