Reprinted from the Audubon Chapter Leader Update
Last week, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Gulf Coast states announced $113 million in funding for environmental restoration projects from NFWF’s Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund, created as part of the criminal settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice, BP and Transocean. The money is intended to restore natural resources that were harmed by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Of those funds, Audubon Florida is receiving $3.2 million to create a comprehensive Panhandle coastal bird conservation program, while Audubon Mississippi will receive a $1.6 million grant to do coastal bird stewardship, and an additional $200,000 as part of a $2.6 million coastal stream and habitat program that is being done in conjunction with The Nature Conservancy, for a total of $5 million in funding for Audubon projects in the Gulf. In addition, in Louisiana, $40.4 million is going toward a diversion project on the Mississippi River, a longstanding goal that begins to restore the natural flow of America’s river.
A strong endorsement of our work along the Gulf Coast, this is a great new beginning – and it’s also really great news for birds.
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