Category: Recovering America’s Wildlife Act

Senators Ponder $1.4 Billion Wildlife Recovery Bill

December 11, 2021
Ben CardincongressConservAmericaDemocratsEndangered Species ActEnvironmentESAjohn boozmanPERCPoliticsPresident ObamaRAWARecovering America's Wildlife ActRepublicansScienceSheldon WhitehouseTrumpU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceUSUS News
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The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard expert testimony Dec. 8 on the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), a bipartisan wildlife protection bill that would be funded by fines and other money collected from environmental or natural resource-related violations. RAWA revises the 1937 Pittman-Robertson Act, which gave the tax money collected on firearms and…

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Conservation Panelists See Bipartisan Wildlife Bill as Tool to Preserve Threatened Species

October 13, 2021
animal conservationanimalscongressConservAmericaConservationDebbie DingellEnvironmentMissouriNational Wildlife FederationPoliticsRecovering America's Wildlife ActRep. Jeff FortenberryScienceSen. Roy BluntUSUS NewsWildlife
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ConservAmerica hosted a webinar Oct. 12 to discuss the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), which would add nearly $1.4 billion in funding to wildlife conservation-related programs, helping to keep species off the endangered species list. It would provide $1.3 billion per year to a new ‘Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Subaccount,’ supplementing, but not replacing,…

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