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Register for Annual Meeting & Fly-In

Join us for our Annual Meeting & Fly-In (AMFI) in Bend, OR on Oct. 27-29! We’re gathering with pilots, conservation partners and friends for a weekend of fun and education. Register today to reserve your seat!

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Romeo November: A LightHawk Story

Change your perspective on conservation efforts along the Colorado River by taking flight with Romeo November: A LightHawk Story. This film, coming Feb. 23, shows how groups working to preserve water and wildlife habitats along the Colorado River are making conservation fly. View the film when it’s released on our social media channels or on the LightHawk website.

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LightHawk is the leading conservation flying organization in the United States. Our flights help preserve land, water and wildlife for future generations. We are supported 100% by people just like you. During this season of giving, give the gift of flight to organizations by supporting our work.

Your gift fuels projects across the country and accelerates conservation outcomes. Our partners are able to accomplish more, in less time thanks to the gift of flight provided by our volunteer pilot community and funded by our supporters. LightHawk makes conservation fly.

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Partnering with the leading conservation groups across North America, we design flight campaigns that protect the quality of life of people, animals and all living things.

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Once aviation is integrated into a plan, we turn to our corps of 300 pilot donors who make aviation affordable by donating every aspect of flight.

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We show conservationists and researchers how flight can augment their work, a concept that many have not considered.

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From wolf and red panda transports, to condor tracking and transports, to monitoring wild salmon, we help our nation’s most endangered animals survive.

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We fly elected officials, conservation funders, print and visual media, conservation staff and board members to reveal the truth of the environment below.

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We are conservation scientists working with the leading environmental groups on the continent, showing them how aviation can augment their work, in perhaps unexpected ways, and creating flight campaigns that achieve significant conservation outcomes.

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STORIES FROM THE AIR

August 2023 Conservation FLYer

Sep 5, 2023

Catch up on the latest LightHawk news August 2023 Featured mission: Preserving and monitoring eelgrass habitats Looking toward Kittery Point and the existing eelgrass beds and the mouth of the Piscatuqua River on the border of Maine and New Hampshire - PREP...

July 2023 Conservation FLYer

Aug 8, 2023

Catch up on the latest LightHawk news July 2023 Featured mission: Native communities and water-use disparities on the Colorado River Lake Havasu City Development. Photo by Steven Escobar. On April 26, volunteer pilot Chuck Schroll flew award-winning native...

June 2023 Conservation FLYer

Jul 3, 2023

Catch up on the latest LightHawk news June 2023 Featured mission: Flying over the Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers The Wisconsin River near Wauzeka, Wisconsin. Photo by Drake White-Bergy/Wisconsin Watch/Lighthawk. LightHawk volunteer pilot Susan Schwabb...