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Our Work Protecting Wildlife and Habitat

The National Wildlife Federation works to inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future. As the nation's largest conservation organization, NWF and its 4 million supporters are committed to sustaining the nature of America for the benefit of people and wildlife.

To do so, we focus on:

• Protecting and defending wildlife and the wild places they need to survive;
• Restoring the health of our natural habitats and ecosystems;
• Educating and inspiring Americans to care for and protect our natural heritage.
  

All across America, wild spaces are being squeezed out, leaving wildlife with fewer spaces to call home.

More About How NWF Protects Wildlife

• Our Wildlife Conservation Work
• How We Protect Endangered Species
• Stopping the Spread of Invasive Species
• Protecing and Restoring America's Great Waters

Recent Wildlife Success Stories:

The National Wildlife Federation builds coalitions with our affiliates, sportsmen, Native American tribes, scientists and state wildlife officials to protect and restore wildlife habitat--with a critical focus on species already being impacted by the effects of global warming. NWF:

• Successfully advocated for the passage of the Great Lakes Compact, which established precedent-setting new laws for water protection, putting water conservation and ecosystem protection first in eight states and two Canadian provinces.

• Won a landmark Endangered Species Act ruling from the federal court of appeals in Miami prohibiting federally-subsidized development in the habitats of the Florida Key deer and seven other endangered species with far-reaching implications.

• Won a federal court ruling forcing the Army Corps of Engineers to reconsider a massive irrigation project in the Arkansas habitat of the critically endangered ivory-billed woodpecker.

• With New Mexico Wildlife Federation, successfully fought for and achieved federal legislation that permanently withdrew mineral leasing in Valle Vidal.

• Used litigation to stop the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's rash decision to open 26 million acres of Conservation Reserve Program land to emergency haying and grazing, protecting years of work to restore critical habitat for nesting birds.

• Has secured and closed, through our allotment retirement program, more than 500,000 acres of public land to grazing in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in order to restore and protect prime wildlife habitat.

• Secured--after decades of struggle by NWF, our affiliates, and colleague organizations--an EPA formal veto on the Clean Water Act permit for the Yazoo Pumps project in Mississippi. This would have been an extremely destructive project--draining 200,000 acres of critically important wetlands.

• Launched a successful partnership effort to restore the wetlands of Coastal Louisiana to include a hands-on restoration program, along with advocacy and policy agendas to ensure protection of the Louisiana coastline for people and wildlife.

• Launched a campaign to secure reforms to the 1872 Mining Law to protect America's public lands from industries taking advantage of outdated laws.

• Demonstrated to minority landowners in the South the economic, ecological and environmental value of the longleaf pine ecosystem where timber production, game management and biodiversity conservation are not only compatible but mutually beneficial.