2017 Conservation Award

The Friends of Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge received a 2017 Mindful Birding Habitat Conservation Award!

We received this award in 2016 as well, for contributing to the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund. The Friends invites everyone to copy this donation!

Donating to the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund is among the most cost-effective, direct, and successful investments in conservation that anyone can make. Ninety-eight cents of every dollar raised goes directly to acquire wetland and grassland habitat for the US National Wildlife Refuge System. Since 1934, more than $850 million has been raised through this program to purchase or lease more than 6 million acres. The Migratory Bird Conservation Fund is the account within the Refuge System into which Duck Stamp monies are deposited.

To learn more:
www.FWS.gov
www.landscope.org

The donation individuals can make to the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund should be made out to USFWS (note “MBCF donation” in the check’s the memo/for field) and mail it to:
Duck Stamp Office
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
5275 Leesburg Pike, MS-MB
Falls Church, VA 22041-3803

The Friends of Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge received the Habitat Conservation Award from the Mindful Birding Project (www.mindfulbirding.org).