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At Southern Company, we're improving wildlife habitats and biodiversity by enhancing company-controlled land, transmission rights of way, and other areas in partnership with owners, stewards, and various conservation groups, including the National Wild Turkey Federation, The Nature Conservancy, and the Wildlife Habitat Council.

Our efforts are anchored by three major programs, Power of Flight, Longleaf Legacy, and Five Star Restoration, all in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Southern Company has committed $10.5 million through 2013 to undertake conservation and biodiversity projects through these three programs. With matching funds from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and project grantees, more than $33 million will go toward conservation in the Southeast. Through 2008, 114 grants were awarded and are in action.

• Timber - 240,000 acres
• Forests - 4,000 acres for longleaf pines (2,180,000 seedlings planted)
• Recreation - 50,000 acres of forested company land in Wildlife Management Areas operated by state agencies
• and open to the public Handicap-only Hunting - 3 special areas
• Habitat - Nearly 3,000 acres managed to benefit the red-cockaded woodpecker
• Lakes - more than 200,000 acres of lakes and 5,000 miles of shoreline in Alabama and Georgia.

Our land management and partnership activities contribute to many conservation efforts, including:

• North American Wetlands Conservation Act
• North American Waterfowl Management Plans
• State Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plans
• Georgia's Forestry for Wildlife Program
• Wildlife Habitat Council's certification program
• The Nature Conservancy's Heritage Program
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife's Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Recovery Plan
• Quail Unlimited's Northern Bobwhite Quail Initiative
• National Wild Turkey Federation's Energy for Wildlife program