National Wildlife Federation's staff have been on the ground since shortly after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig exploded.
Every day, the count of dead or injured wildlife goes up. Get the latest numbers and learn how animals are being hurt.
NWF and our affiliates in the Gulf are organizing Volunteer Surveillance Teams to observe the more than 10,000 miles of shoreline along the Gulf Coast.
Share messages, join the volunteer effort, speak up on behalf of wildlife--there are many ways to help the wildlife of the Gulf.
What can you and your family do in response to the Oil Spill? Find activities and information to talk to your kids from Ranger Rick magazine.
Scotts® Songbird Selections® Brand Wild Bird Food donated $50,000 to the NWF's Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Fund.
National Wildlife Federation staff is working on the front lines along the Gulf Coast assessing the damage and responding to the BP Oil Spill.
In order to help the wildlife at risk by the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf, the National Wildlife Federation has established a Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Fund.
In 1989, the Exxon Valdez dumped 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound. The next year, NWF sponsored a series of hearings illustrating the impacts on Alaska's wildlife and citizens.
August 31, 2010 - Last week, staff from the National Wildlife Federation traveled to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to observe the release of newly hatched endangered sea turtles. The hatchlings came from recently rescued sea turtle eggs taken from the oil spill-threatened shores along the Gulf of Mexico.
August 25, 2010 - "To hold BP fully accountable for the impacts of the Gulf disaster, the Department of Justice needs to calculate civil penalties by combining both the oil and gas discharges – a total that's 50 percent higher than the oil alone."
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On Monday, July 26th an estimated one million gallons of crude oil burst from a broken pipeline into a creek that feeds the Kalamazoo River. Get first-hand information from our Michigan staff.
NWF is on-the-ground coordinating the volunteer effort with coalition partners.
We are organizing a network of volunteers to monitor the coast for wildlife in distress. Find out more about this opportunity to volunteer and also about how you can support the effort.
The editors of Ranger Rick offer tips for talking about the oil spill with your kids.
In order to help the wildlife at risk by the oil spill, NWF has established a Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Fund to support NWF's immediate response and longer term on-the-ground work to safeguard wildlife affected by this tragedy.