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Cumberland Island National Seashore
Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending Cumberland Island?

2 groups on the record for it

National park in Georgia, 36,347 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1972.

The groups

Who’s in the fight for Cumberland Island

Every group here is listed for a sourced fact, and each fact opens its source. Give directly; no gift routes through this site.

Local 1

Headquartered in Georgia, or Cumberland Island named in the mission on its latest 990.

In the fight 1

A sourced tie to Cumberland Island, from anywhere.

Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on Cumberland Island. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.

The situation

What’s happening to Cumberland Island

Georgia’s largest barrier island, a wild expanse of maritime forest, wild horses, and undeveloped beach reachable only by boat. In 2026 the Park Service began negotiating land exchanges with private inholders that would allow up to 15,000 square feet of new development per parcel, potentially eight or more large homes on protected land. Nine conservation groups are demanding congressional oversight after FOIA’d emails revealed two preliminary agreements already reached, warning the deals could quietly privatize the interior of one of the last undeveloped barrier islands on the Atlantic coast.

  1. 2026Reporting reveals land-swap deals allowing island development
  2. 2026Nine conservation groups demand congressional oversight
Land exchanges could allow homes on protected island

Source: The Current / GPB · June 9, 2026

No public comment window is open on Cumberland Island 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 Cumberland Island

GiveGive to Wild Cumberland

Their own site; they take gifts directly. Your dollar never passes through us.

Their site ↗SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Cumberland Island, plus any comment window as it opens.

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Every threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.

Threatened Lands Map

Build my lineup around Cumberland Island: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

Cumberland Island has defenders. It needs more.

1 local group, 1 more in the fight. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.

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Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Cumberland Island, with per-item sources. Group crews and program ratios: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, latest filed year, EINs on each group’s profile. Which groups are listed for this place: a group is listed only under a sourced fact, and each chip opens its source. Local means headquartered in the state (the group’s own site, else the legal domicile on its 990) or the place named in its mission on its latest 990. In the fight means a case over the place naming it (the court docket), its own comment on a decision about the place (regulations.gov), an editors’ link with its source or its own page approved by a person here, or events on its own calendar held at the place. No fact, no listing. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-09-28. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.