International Paper supports conservation programs in the coastal Carolinas, the Cumberland Plateau, the Piney Woods of Texas and Louisiana, and the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. We work to restore and enhance many different forests in support of numerous terrestrial and aquatic wildlife including the red-cockaded woodpecker, the Louisiana black bear and the eastern hellbender.
The New England Gear Innovation Fund, a part of the Fisheries Innovation Fund, seeks to support the development and adoption of innovative gear technologies that reduce the risk of lethal or sub-lethal fishing gear entanglement for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale (NARW). The program, which is a partnership between NFWF and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, focuses on the New England region of the United States.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is designed to provide environmental improvements and address environmental areas of concern such as water quality, groundwater, open space, reduction of toxic pollution, and air quality in the Greenpoint, Brooklyn community.
The goal of NFWF's Lahontan Cutthroat Trout initiative was to protect existing pure populations from contact with non-native trout, sustain Lahontan cutthroat populations in lakes, connect isolated populations into larger, more resilient populations, and increase Lahontan cutthroat angling opportunities.
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is currently seeking proposals to organize and analyze raven monitoring and management data collected from 2013-2017 in the California range of the desert tortoise.
