Matthew Lintner and Diane Boc Join Board of Trustees for The Nature Conservancy of Delaware

Second Expansion of Board Will Strengthen Mission to Protect Delaware’s Last Great Places

WILMINGTON, DE — March 15, 2007—The Delaware Chapter of The Nature Conservancy announces the election of two new business community leaders to its Board of Trustees. Diane Boc and Matthew Lintner will join the Board at its April meeting in Dover.

Matthew F. Lintner is a partner at Morris James LLP in Wilmington, Delaware, where he represents clients in corporate and commercial litigation. Before coming to Delaware he lived in California, and served as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of California in the environmental enforcement division. In that capacity he litigated a broad array of environmental matters under many of the state and federal environmental statutes. He and his family moved to Delaware in 2003, where his wife Caroline was born and raised. Caroline serves on the boards of the Wilmington Montessori School and the Tatnall School, and their two daughters attend Wilmington Montessori.

Diane Boc is Director of Corporate Real Estate at the DuPont Company where she was instrumental in establishing the DuPont State Forest in North Carolina through DuPont’s Land Legacy Program. Boc is currently serving on the Committee of 100 as past president. She also serves with the Wilmington Renaissance Corporation, Wilmington Main Street, and The Fund for Women. She is a Delaware native and lives in Wilmington.

Boc replaces outgoing Trustee Kathleen Forte, DuPont VP for Public Affairs. As he looked back on the last few years, Roger L. Jones, Jr., State Director for the Delaware Chapter of The Nature Conservancy noted Kathleen Forte’s four years of valuable involvement with the Chapter and the marketing expertise she shared with the Delaware Chapter Board and staff.

“We are looking forward to welcoming Diane Boc and Matt Lintner to The Nature Conservancy’s Delaware Chapter in April. Corporate and community leaders bring an important perspective to the mission of the Conservancy and I and look forward to working with them.” In concluding his thoughts, Jones noted, “This is the second increase in board member strength in the past year. We expect that our twenty member board will be vigorous and active in furthering the goals of The Nature Conservancy’s Delaware Chapter.”

In addition to Boc and Lintner, Board of Trustees members of The Nature Conservancy - Delaware Chapter, include Patricia Schramm (Chairman); Harold I. Salmons, III (Vice Chair); Richard H. Bayard, Esq.; Robert H. Bolling, III; Roberta S. Brown; Mariah Calagione, John Ciccarone; John V. Flynn, Jr.; Jeffrey Garland; Nathan Hayward, III; D. Wayne Holden; David Irwin; John Mackenzie; F. Michael Parkowski, Esq.; Christopher Patterson, Preston Schell, David Velazquez and Brock J. Vinton.

The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. To date, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 15 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 102 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.