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    For over 80 years, Ducks Unlimited Canada has worked to conserve wetlands and support waterfowl populations through major conservation projects and fundraising events. Starting in the 1930s amid the Great Depression, DUC was established to help struggling waterfowl in the Canadian prairies and has since conserved over 651,000 acres of wetlands through campaigns like Rescue Our Wetlands. DUC now has over 111,000 conservation supporters and works with governments and industries to protect important habitat for breeding, migrating, and wintering waterfowl through sophisticated engineering projects and international conservation plans.

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    For over 80 years, Ducks Unlimited Canada has worked to conserve wetlands and support waterfowl populations through major conservation projects and fundraising events. Starting in the 1930s amid the Great Depression, DUC was established to help struggling waterfowl in the Canadian prairies and has since conserved over 651,000 acres of wetlands through campaigns like Rescue Our Wetlands. DUC now has over 111,000 conservation supporters and works with governments and industries to protect important habitat for breeding, migrating, and wintering waterfowl through sophisticated engineering projects and international conservation plans.

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    For over 80 years, Ducks Unlimited Canada has worked to conserve wetlands and support waterfowl populations through major conservation projects and fundraising events. Starting in the 1930s amid the Great Depression, DUC was established to help struggling waterfowl in the Canadian prairies and has since conserved over 651,000 acres of wetlands through campaigns like Rescue Our Wetlands. DUC now has over 111,000 conservation supporters and works with governments and industries to protect important habitat for breeding, migrating, and wintering waterfowl through sophisticated engineering projects and international conservation plans.

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    Our history

    For more than 80 years, our iconic


    duck head logo has been a symbol
    for measurable and meaningful
    conservation work. 2010s
    With nearly 70%
    1930s 1990s of wetlands lost in
    1950s settled areas of the country,
    Amid the Great Depression,
    the More Game Birds in Drought ends – and major
    1970s In 1991, the Institute for
    Wetland and Waterfowl
    the Rescue Our Wetlands
    campaign was launched to
    America Foundation looked flooding occurs, exposing a Enthusiasm for greater Research (IWWR) is created. conserve and restore these
    for ways to support struggling conflict between agricultural Canadian fundraising leads By conducting research and ecosystems. The seven-year
    waterfowl populations in the interests and DUC’s mission. to the first DUC dinner in evaluating programs relating campaign conserved 651,057
    Canadian prairies. Their A strong working relation- 1974. Fundraising dinners to DUC’s mission, IWWR acres and raised more than
    foresight led to the estab- ship begins with the ag continue to be lively cele- helps put the right conser- $559 million – one the most
    lishment of Ducks Unlimited community that continues brations of the outdoors vation programs in the significant conservation
    Canada (DUC) in 1938. today. and DUC’s work. right places. achievements in history.

    1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s Today


    DUC is hard at work, Wetland projects become With waterfowl numbers Joining forces with Ducks DUC’s conservation
    developing projects more sophisticated. DUC declining again, a sense Unlimited, Inc. (U.S.) and community stands 111,025
    and banding ducks. now favours letting water of urgency builds around Ducks Unlimited de México, strong. Wetland conservation
    levels fluctuate more naturally. the need for international the International Conser- helps control flooding, improve
    Major engineering projects cooperation. In 1986, the vation Plan is developed water quality, and store carbon.
    help return waterfowl habitat North American Waterfowl in 2001. The Plan ranks DUC works closely
    to the land. Management Plan was regions according to their with government
    approved – and is con- importance to breeding, and industry to
    sidered one of the most migrating, and wintering conserve vital
    successful conservation waterfowl. waterfowl
    initiatives in the world. habitat.

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