ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS & PARTNERSHIPS 9 Land Trust for the Other Sponsorships Mississippi Coastal Plain & Partnerships The company has maintained a strong relationship with The company regularly sponsors, contributes to, and the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain. An initial provides volunteer leadership for countless organizations Perseverance Oaks partner, the Land Trust is a member- and events across the greater Gulf Coast corridor supported nonprofit that conserves, promotes, and committed to environmental sustainability, conservation, protects open spaces and green spaces of ecological, research, and education initiatives that help safeguard cultural, or scenic significance in the counties of the blueways, greenways, wildlife, and habitats critical to Mississippi Coastal Plain. local ecosystems and community quality of life. Hancock Whitney supports the Land Trust’s general Those local sponsorships and partnerships include, but mission and adopted into Perseverance Oaks the are not limited to, the following organizations: namesake trees at Twelve Oaks, a 30-acre Land Trust nature preserve in South Mississippi featuring a stunning ALABAMA MISSISSIPPI canopy of centuries-old live oaks, native plants, walking trails, marshes and a bird observatory along the Fort • Alabama Wildlife Federation • Coastal Conservation Association Bayou waterway. Purchased after the Civil War by a • Coastal Conservation Association • Gulf of Mexico Alliance formerly enslaved person from the widow of the original • Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation • Delta Waterfowl Foundation owner, the Twelve Oaks property is home to an artist- in-residence cottage built around part of what local • Dog River Watershed Clearwater Revival • Mississippi Aquarium historians believe was once an African-American church • Partners for Environmental Progress • Mississippi Forestry Association on the site. • Mississippi Wildlife & Parks Foundation FLORIDA • Tampa Bay Watch TEXAS • Delta Waterfowl Foundation • Houston Arboretum & Nature Center LOUISIANA • Audubon Nature Institute (Zoo & Aquarium) • Coastal Conservation Association • Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana • Delta Waterfowl • Ducks Unlimited • Friends of City Park (New Orleans) • Friends of the Baton Rouge Zoo