Sign-On Letter for Refuge & Hatchery Friends Groups — FY26 Funding Request
Deadline: Friday, April 4th at 12:00 PM ET
We’re calling on Refuge Friends, Hatchery Friends, and partner organizations to sign onto a letter urging Congress to provide $731 million for the Refuge System’s Operations and Maintenance in FY2026. This funding is critical to restore staff capacity, protect habitats, and keep refuges open and resilient.
Refuge System Employees on the Chopping Block - Your Help Needed!
The Trump Administration has made it clear that they intend to slash the federal workforce - and this means the staff of the National Wildlife Refuge System - unless we push back!
Your Help Is Needed - The Refuge System Is In Crisis!
We need your help! Dramatic funding cuts by Congress have resulted in closed refuges, lack of work to protect biodiversity and imperiled species, and loss of staff to provide programs and even law enforcement. That coupled with the damages from natural disasters like Hurricanes Helene and Milton and fires, tornadoes and flooding is crippling the entire System. Congress must address this crisis!
Urge Your Members of Congress to Join the Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus
We need your voice to protect our national wildlife refuges. The National Wildlife Refuge System is facing a crisis. Years of chronic underfunding and, as a result, understaffing have hampered its ability to protect the precious ecosystems and wildlife we all cherish. Your voice matters! By contacting your Representatives and raising awareness, you can help ensure that the National Wildlife Refuge System flourishes for generations to come.
Stand Up To Protect Endangered Species In National Wildlife Refuges
We need your voice to protect our nation's endangered species that call our national wildlife refuges home. These precious refuges are critical sanctuaries for our native threatened and endangered species, providing them with safe havens to thrive and recover. However, these refuges are under threat, and the species they protect need your help.