National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation
Founder(s)Jay Norwood Darling
Founded1936
HeadquartersReston, Virginia, United States
Area servedUnited States
FocusEnvironmentalism
MethodEducation, training, research, lobbying
Revenue$88,102,000 USD (2008)[1]
MembersOver 4,000,000 [2]
Motto"To inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future."
Websitenwf.org

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is the United States' largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization. It has over four million members and supporters.[3]

NWF seeks to educate people of all ages by publishing a variety of wildlife magazines, including Wild Animal Baby, Your Big Backyard, Ranger Rick, and National Wildlife Magazine, and by the Backyard Habitat series on Discovery's Animal Planet along with IMAX films, such as Coral Reef Adventure, India: Kingdom of the Tiger, Bears, Wolves, and Dolphins. It has an online field guide of plants and animals called Enature.com. Also, the NWF offers hands-on training and support for habitat restoration through its Backyard Wildlife Habitat and Schoolyard Habitat programs.

Some of NWF's goals include: solutions to global warming; reducing mercury pollution; strengthening the Endangered Species Act; fighting invasive species; saving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling; restoring America's waterways; reforming the Army Corps of Engineers; and educating future environmental stewards.

NWF's headquarters is in Reston, Virginia.

  1. 2008 Annual Report[permanent dead link]
  2. NWF press release[permanent dead link]
  3. "NWF Structure". Archived from the original on 2009-06-02. Retrieved 2011-01-18.

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