Who’s defending Cape Hatteras?
3 groups have it in their care
National park in North Carolina, 30,351 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1953.
The defenders
Nobody has claimed this fight yet
No group in our directory carries Cape Hatteras in its work yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting: if you know the group that belongs here, tell us and our editors will look at it.
3 more groups also work this ground
On the ground in North Carolina
The situation
What’s happening to Cape Hatteras
America’s first national seashore is losing ground, literally. Rising seas and intensifying storms are eating the barrier islands that have protected the North Carolina coast for millennia. NPS budget cuts threaten the managed retreat programs that are this seashore’s only chance of surviving the century.
- 1953Established as first national seashore
- 2025Sea level rise accelerates erosion of barrier islands
Source: NPS · March 1, 2025
Source: NPS / USGS · January 1, 2025
No public comment window is open on Cape Hatteras right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.
Your move
How to stand for Cape Hatteras
Cape Hatteras has defenders. It needs more.
The work is theirs. The backing is yours.