Our work for wildlife depends on a healthy democracy.
We must have functioning and secure democratic institutions and work harder to address social and racial injustices in order to advance our mission for people and wildlife.
Your Participation Makes a Difference
The National Wildlife Federation supports civic participation and fair elections to ensure your voice influences matters like wildlife conservation, environmental policies, and public health safeguards. Our ability to bring people together to advocate for wildlife depends on a healthy and functioning representative democracy.
In a strong democracy, everyone should be able to vote and make sure their voice is heard on issues they care about, whether it is wildlife conservation, the environment, the economy, or other issues affecting our communities.
Democracy in Action
Democracy is about more than just elections and voting – it’s all the ways we engage with our government all year long. National Wildlife Federation relies on the voices of communities everywhere calling, emailing, writing letters and speaking out with us to protect wildlife.
NWF’s Civic Engagement Work
- Get Out The Vote (GOTV) and Voter Education Campaigns
- Advocating for Voting Rights and Equal Access to the Ballot
- Combatting Disinformation and Corruption in our Elections
- Hosting Nonpartisan Debates and Forums on occasion (including partnering on the first ever Environmental Justice Presidential debate in 2019)
- In essence, all of our advocacy work that engages the public is civic engagement (submitting comments to regulatory agencies, attending and testifying hearings, collecting petitions and related public engagement, etc.)
As a result of years of this advocacy together, we’ve won some major victories in recent years!
The Biden Administration launched the American Climate Corps to invest in clean energy, conservation, climate resilience, and the youth of America.
After years of organizing and advocacy, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act which contained the most significant federal investment in climate action in US history and perhaps the world.
Polk County, FL passed a Water and Lands referendum to preserve green space and improve habitat connectivity.
Congress passed the Great American Outdoors Act which contained permanent authorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) after years of advocacy by our members and activists.
