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Our Work With State Wildlife Action Plans
Protecting wildlife for our children's future will require bold and strategic conservation efforts in every state.
Fortunately, a vision for conserving wildlife now exists thanks to the development of State Wildlife Action Plans.
These federally-funded state plans are setting the stage for an ambitious new direction for wildlife conservation and collectively represent a national action agenda for preventing wildlife from becoming endangered.
How They Work
Every state has written a State Wildlife Action Plan, which acts like a blueprint for conservation. Plans assess the health of wildlife and habitat in the state, so experts know which species are at risk, and outline steps needed to conserve the “species of greatest conservation need” before they become more rare and costly to protect. The State Wildlife Grants Program provides federal dollars and matching state funds to support states and territories in cost-effective conservation.
Implementing Successful State Wildlife Action Plans
The National Wildlife Federation is a founding member of the Teaming with Wildlife Coalition, a coalition of more than 6,300 organizations supporting increased public funding for wildlife conservation and related education and recreation. The coalition works to ensure that state wildlife agencies and their conservation partners have the funding they need to fully implement their wildlife action plans.
NWF works to advance and support state wildlife conservation efforts by:
- Advocating for robust, dedicated funding for action plan implementation through the annual federal budget process and other legislation.
- Building awareness of the importance of state wildlife action plans and galvanizing state-level Teaming with Wildlife Coalitions.
- Promoting the use of wildlife action plans to inform broader land use and resource management activities.
- Working with states to help them incorporate climate change into their action plans.