The Cooperative Alliance for Refuge Enhancement (CARE) is proud to announce the discharge of our new web site, https://www.fundwildliferefuges.com/. Because the chair of the coalition, the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation is worked up to unveil this new platform for the advantage of elevated funding and assist of the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge System.
CARE is a nationwide coalition of 24 wildlife, sporting, scientific, and conservation organizations that span the political spectrum, representing over 16 million People who worth out of doors recreation and wildlife conservation. CARE represents birders, hunters, anglers, biologists, fish and wildlife professionals, environmentalists, scientists, professors, college students, and extra. CARE was created in 1995 to unite these disparate teams round shared values and their love of wildlife to advocate for elevated funding for the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge System — lands the place nature and people can thrive.
Member organizations embody the American Birding Affiliation, American Fisheries Society, American Sportfishing Affiliation, Affiliation of Fish and Wildlife Businesses, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, Congressional Sportsmen’s Basis, Defenders of Wildlife, Geese Limitless, Inc., Izaak Walton League of America, Marine Conservation Institute, Nationwide Audubon Society, Nationwide Rifle Affiliation, Nationwide Wildlife Federation, Safari Membership Worldwide, Sportsmen’s Alliance, The Corps Community, The Nature Conservancy, The Wilderness Society, The Wildlife Society, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Trout Limitless, Wildlife Eternally, and Wildlife Administration Institute.
Along with offering details about the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge System and methods to assist it, the brand new web site additionally options information and updates about CARE’s ongoing efforts to guard and improve nationwide wildlife refuges throughout the nation. CARE makes use of the distinctive ability units of its member organizations to advocate for adequate federal funding for the Operations and Upkeep funds of the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge System. CARE members meet recurrently with Members of Congress and their employees, work intently with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, maintain briefings and occasions on Capitol Hill, testify earlier than Congress, and compile complete experiences on the state of the Refuge System.
“We’re thrilled to launch this new web site and supply a central platform for folks to get entangled with the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge System,” mentioned Geoffrey L. Haskett, President of the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation. “With elevated assist, we are able to be sure that our wildlife refuges proceed to function an important useful resource for shielding wildlife and preserving our pure heritage.”
We invite you to go to https://www.fundwildliferefuges.com/ and discover the positioning to be taught extra concerning the Cooperative Alliance for Refuge Enhancement and the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation’s position with CARE. Collectively, we are able to be sure that the distinctive and helpful Nationwide Wildlife Refuge System continues to thrive and supply important habitat for numerous species and alternatives for out of doors recreation and conservation schooling for generations to return.
