$35.5 million is heading to the 'last mile' for America's rarest species

Some recoveries stall just short of the finish line — a missing survey, a fragmented habitat, one bottleneck nobody has funded. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the US Fish and Wildlife Service have announced $35.5 million in grants across 109 projects aimed exactly at that last mile, from polar bears in Alaska to fish in Missouri and the round-leaf birch, which grows wild in just one Virginia county. With matching funds, the total conservation impact reaches $44.1 million, targeting species close enough to recovery that this push could see them downlisted or delisted.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: funding & finance