Our main objectives:

• Build a powerful grassroots network throughout the country to act as an effective voice for local refuges and the broader System.
  NWRA is working to forge the more than 250 refuge Friends volunteer groups - representing an estimated 40,000 individuals into a nationally-coordinated voice on behalf of the Refuge System.


• Address the debilitating $2.7 billion Refuge System funding backlog.
  NWRA is a lead organization in efforts to communicate the substantial Refuge System funding needs to Congress and Administration.
  
  
• Look beyond refuge boundaries.
  In response to the alarming loss of vital refuge buffer habitat, NWRA has initiated a program to expand support for conservation landscapes protecting individual wildlife refuges and the critical habitats surrounding them, as described in our Beyond the Boundaries report (pdf).
  
  
• Draw ongoing attention to invasive species - the number one threat to refuges nationwide - and spur momentum to combat the problem.
  With our Silent Invasion report (pdf), NWRA launched a ground-breaking initiative that has so far resulted in $4 million in federal funding to mobilize volunteers at refuges around the threat.


• Tackle important issues that challenge individual refuges and have ramifications for the broader Refuge System.
  NWRA vigilantly watches for harmful activities on and adjacent to refuges that threaten their ability to successfully conserve and recover species.

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