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Bring Back the Native Fish

Bring Back the Native Fish (BBNF) awarded its first grant in 1991 and invested nationwide for over 30 years in conservation activities that restore, protect and enhance native populations of sensitive or listed fish species across the United States, especially in areas on or adjacent to federal agency lands. The program emphasized coordination between private landowners and federal agencies, Tribes, corporations and states to improve the ecosystem functions and health of watersheds. 

Vessel Strike Avoidance Fund

The Vessel Strike Avoidance Fund seeks to support the development and adoption of innovative technology solutions to provide mariners with tools to more effectively avoid collisions (vessel strikes) with large whales and benefit conservation of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales and other cetacean species. The program is a partnership between NFWF and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and focuses primarily on the Atlantic Coast, the range of the right whale.

Darden Restaurants, Inc. Foundation

Through the Rocky Mountain Rangelands Program, the Darden Restaurants, Inc. Foundation and NFWF will work with conservation partners and private landowners to implement voluntary management practices designed to improve livestock productivity, restore wildlife habitat, improve water management and generate carbon benefits in the Intermountain West.

Truterra

Truterra, LLC, the sustainability business at Land O’Lakes, partners with NFWF to support conservation specialists deployed alongside agricultural retailers, to build knowledge and capacity in order to support conservation practices around the country.

Nestlé

Nestlé supports NFWF programs focused on implementing voluntary, rancher-led practices to help improve water management and restore wildlife habitats across more than 15 states in the Great Plains, Mountain West, Midwest and Southeastern portions of the U.S.

Aramco

Aramco supports the Coral Reef Stewardship Fund, which helps respond to the decline of one of the world’s most valuable ecosystems in terms of ecological, economic and cultural capital.

Cinco Hermanos Fund of the Orange County Community Foundation

The Cinco Hermanos Fund of the Orange County Community Foundation supports NFWF’s Hawaiian forest bird conservation efforts, helping prevent near-term extinction by sustaining and enhancing captive care programs that build insurance populations for the most at-risk native species.