New wetland conservation grants approved under NAWCA
On Apr. 26, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued a press release announcing that the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission has approved $17.8 million in ...
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British Columbia to form new wildlife management agency
On Mar. 22, British Columbia’s Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Operations, Steve Thomson, announced that a new wildlife management agency will be ...
TWS joins coalition effort to strengthen conservation funding
The Fiscal Year 2018 budget process has begun for the 115th Congress. With the new administration looking to reduce spending across the federal government; many ...
Wildlife policy in the lame duck session
Following the election of President-elect Donald Trump and nearing the end of President Obama’s administration, Congress was back on Capitol Hill this week for ...
House passes Interior-EPA spending bill
On July 14, the House of Representatives passed the fiscal year 2017 Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill (H.R. 5538). ...
$1.3 Billion wildlife funding bill introduced in House of Representatives
In a major step towards securing increased funding for conservation efforts, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. 5650) was introduced in the House of ...
Wildlife funding could better prioritize recovery
Some threatened and endangered species would be better off if Congress would show them the money rather than allocating funding to other species that don’t need ...