National Wildlife Federation

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is the United States' largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization. It has over four million members and supporters.

NWF seeks to educate people of all ages by publishing a variety of wildlife magazines, including Wild Animal Baby, Your Big Backyard, Ranger Rick, and National Wildlife Magazine, and by the Backyard Habitat series on Discovery's Animal Planet along with IMAX films, such as Coral Reef Adventure, India: Kingdom of the Tiger, Bears, Wolves, and Dolphins. It has an online field guide of plants and animals called Enature.com. Also, the NWF offers hands-on training and support for habitat restoration through its Backyard Wildlife Habitat and Schoolyard Habitat programs.

Some of NWF's goals include: solutions to global warming; reducing mercury pollution; strengthening the Endangered Species Act; fighting invasive species; saving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling; restoring America's waterways; reforming the Army Corps of Engineers; and educating future environmental stewards.

NWF's headquarters is in Reston, Virginia.

 Board members 
The following individuals make up NWF's top executive staff:
Larry J. Schweiger, President & Chief Executive Officer
Jaime Matyas, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Dulce Gomez-Zormelo, Treasurer, VP for Finance & Chief Financial Officer
Cynthia Lewin, Secretary, Senior VP and General Counsel

 Volunteer programs 
The NWF runs a large network of volunteer programs that reaches over 10 million people.

Some of the current programs include:

Habitat Ambassadors
Habitat Steward Volunteers
Habitat Steward Hosts
The Louisiana Grant Project
Global Warming Ambassadors
Wildlife Literacy Ambassador
Frogwatch USA Volunteer
Behind the Scenes Volunteers

 Regional offices 
Apart from its headquarters, the NWF runs ten regional offices across the United States.

Other articles
Sustainability
Biodiversity
Global warming
Ecology
Earth Science
Natural environment
Recycling

References

More reading
 Thomas B. Allen, Guardian of the Wild: The Story of the National Wildlife Federation, 1936-1986 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987) 

Other websites
National Wildlife Federation Website
NWF Chief Naturalist Craig Tufts Memorial 
Enature.com
Arizona Wildlife Viewing
NWF Budget Summary at CharityNavigator.com
Alaska Youth for Environmental Action Website

Category:Environmental organizations based in the United States
Category:Organizations based in Virginia
Category:1936 establishments in the United States