The National Wildlife Refuge Association just sent out an email update regarding recent action by the House Interior Appropriations subcommittee for the proposed Fiscal Year 2011 spending bill for the Department of the Interior. The NWRA stated that it is still unclear when the Interior bill will go to the House floor, but it [...]

A national coalition of wildlife conservation and sporting organizations has asked President Barack Obama to reconsider cuts to the National Wildlife Refuge System’s budget as the President considers cutting federal agency spending by five percent in FY 2012.

The coalition called the proposed cuts “wrong and inappropriate” at a time when refuges and the species they [...]

The National Wildlife Refuge Association has put out an action alert urging citizens to write their representatives and senators about Refuge System funding for Fiscal Year 2011.

Refuge champions in Congress, House Refuge Caucus leaders, Mike Thompson (D-CA), Michael Castle (R-DE), Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) and Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) and Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Olympia Snowe [...]

The Cooperative Alliance for Refuge Enhancement (CARE) has just released their Restoring America’s Wildlife Refuges 2010 report, which warns of the threat from an Obama Administration proposal to significantly cut the Refuge System’s budget.
From CARE:

America’s National Wildlife Refuge System, comprising 150 million acres, requires a minimum of $900 million annually to operate adequately. The report [...]

The Metro Santa Cruz newspaper is reporting that paint chips from an old Navy base on the Midway Islands is causing the deaths of thousands of threatened Laysan albatross chicks, who are dying of lead poisoning. UC–Santa Cruz assistant researcher Myra Finkelstein did a study that provided evidence that paint chips from an abandoned U.S. [...]

The National Wildlife Refuge Association just released details of President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget, and it contains some disappointment for the Refuge System.

The National Wildlife Refuge Association (NWRA) expressed disappointment over President Obamas proposed $499.5 million operations and maintenance budget for the National Wildlife Refuge System for next year, Fiscal Year 2011. Because [...]

The National Wildlife Refuge Association has laid out their 2010 priorities in advocating for the National Wildlife Refuge System:
Funding: With a renewed emphasis on reducing the federal deficit, as outlined in the President’s State of the Union, federal programs such as the National Wildlife Refuge System are likely to see reduced or frozen discretionary spending [...]

In a pleasant surprise from Congress, the just-passed “FY 2010 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill” will give the National Wildlife Refuge System a budget increase of $40 million, which was the higher amount that the House passed earlier this year.
From the press release by the National Wildlife Refuge Association:

This builds upon strong increases [...]

The National Wildlife Refuge Association has issued a press release announcing the passage of a $26 million budget increase for the Refuge System in the Senate’s FY 2010 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies appropriations bill. Unfortunately this is not the same amount that the House passed earlier.
From the NWRA:
The National Wildlife Refuge Association (NWRA) [...]

A new episode of Refuge TV from the National Wildlife Refuge Association explains why you need to contact your U.S. senators immediately and urge them to adopt the House Refuge System funding level for Fiscal Year 2010.

Visit the NWRA Action Alert page for more information.
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In this episode of Refuge TV from the National Wildlife Refuge Association, their VP of Government Affairs, Desiree Sorenson-Groves, spells out why your calls are needed to ensure that the Senate steps up and gives the Refuge System a healthy budget for Fiscal Year 2010.
You can reach your senators via the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

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The Cooperative Alliance for Refuge Enhancement (CARE) has issued their “Restoring America’s Wildlife Refuges 2009″ report, which highlights how the funding crisis is undermining the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
According to the National Wildlife Refuge Association’s Flyer newsletter:

“Restoring America’s Wildlife Refuges 2009: A Plan to Solve the Refuge System Funding Crisis,” a new [...]