Missouri Teaming With Wildlife Coalition
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Teaming With Wildlife Week:
On-the-ground Conservation Projects
2010 marks the 10th Anniversary of the State Wildlife Grants Program - a national funding source created to prevent species from becoming endangered by protecting and restoring native habitats.
Missouri has received more than $12.4 million over the past 10 years (averaging about $1.2 million annually) to help ensure that Missouri has healthy, sustainable plant and animal communities for future generations to use and enjoy. Part of this vision is to have fish, forest and wildlife resources in appreciably better condition tomorrow than they are today. That is why projects and other conservation actions are developed through citizens, government agencies and non-governmental organizations working together to protect, sustain, enhance, restore or create sustainable plant and animal communities of local, state and national significance.Public, private and non-profit owned land in every region of the state have benefited from on-the-ground restoration efforts made possible by State Wildlife Grants in the past decade. The State Wildlife Grants Program is a major accomplishment of the Teaming With Wildlife Coalition - a network of over 6,000 organizations and businesses nationally (275 in Missouri) that support additional funding for fish, forest and wildlife conservation. Because it is an annually appropriated funding source, the Teaming With Wildlife Coalition must speak up each year to ensure its inclusion in the Department of Interior's budget.
To learn more about a few selected projects made possible by State Wildlife Grants, click here.
For more information about State Wildlife Grant projects in Missouri, contact Gene Gardner at 573-522-4115, ext. 3353 or gene.gardner@mdc.mo.gov. |
