The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies is is seeking nominations for its 2023 Climate Adaptation Leadership Awards for Natural Resources! Established in 2016, each year, the Award recognizes the outstanding and exemplary leadership by individuals, agencies, Tribes, businesses, students and youth to build resilience and advance adaptation of America’s vital natural resources in a changing climate.
The Climate Adaptation Leadership Awards celebrate outstanding efforts to increase the resilience of America’s valuable living natural resources and help sustain the many people, communities, and businesses that depend on them. Projects must address one or more of the goals identified in the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy:
- Goal 1: Conserve habitat to support healthy fish, wildlife, and plant populations and ecosystem functions;
- Goal 2: Manage species and habitats to protect ecosystem functions and provide sustainable commercial, subsistence, recreational and cultural use;
- Goal 3: Enhance capacity for effective management;
- Goal 4: Support adaptive management through integrated observation and monitoring and use of decision support tools;
- Goal 5: Increase knowledge and information on impacts and responses of fish, wildlife, and plants;
- Goal 6: Increase awareness and motivation action to safeguard fish, wildlife, and plants; and
- Goal 7: Reduce non-climate stressors to help fish, wildlife, plants, and ecosystems.
Award winners are celebrated each year in conjunction with Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies’ annual meeting. Nominations will be accepted through May 31, 2023.