Ducks Unlimited Honors North Carolina Staff Member, Volunteer Leader

Larry Wilkins, regional director for Ducks Unlimited (DU), was awarded the 2013-14 Regional Director of the Year award for his outstanding efforts as a staff member of Region 7, an area that encompasses the southeastern United States.

“The real recipient of this award should be the volunteers of the region,” Wilkins said. “I would like to thank them for all they do for the waterfowl of North America.”

Wilkins, a resident of Henderson, N.C., covers central North Carolina working with volunteer committees in this area hosting fundraisers for the 77-year-old conservation organization. The events in his region raised more than $600,000 for DU’s conservation mission in the fiscal year ending on June 30.

Ducks Unlimited is the leader in wetlands conservation, and volunteers are the heart and soul of the organization. Coordinating more than 4,000 local fund-raising events, the volunteers generate more than 400,000 memberships and more than $50 million annually.

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Contact:

Matt Coffey
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mcoffey@ducks.org

Ducks Unlimited

Ducks Unlimited is the world's leader in wetlands and waterfowl conservation. DU got its start in 1937 during the Dust Bowl when North America’s drought-plagued waterfowl populations had plunged to unprecedented lows. Determined not to sit idly by as the continent’s waterfowl dwindled beyond recovery, a small group of sportsmen joined together to form an organization that became known as Ducks Unlimited. Its mission: habitat conservation. Thanks to decades of abiding by that single mission, Ducks Unlimited is now the world’s largest and most effective private waterfowl and wetlands conservation organization. DU is able to multilaterally deliver its work through a series of partnerships with private individuals, landowners, agencies, scientific communities and other entities.