Delaware Nature Society Program Guide and Newsletter September - December 2017 | Page 29

water, wildlife, and land
HELP WILDLIFE & OUR COMMUNITIES THRIVE
Our 2017 Agenda
Delaware Nature Society is advocating for...
supporting clean WATER
1. Dedicated clean water funding
2. Protection of our waterways
3. Preservation of our freshwater wetlands
4. Enact Recovering America’s Wildlife Act
protecting WILDLIFE
5. Protect Menhaden: key food for many ocean creatures
6. Full funding for federal programs such as the
Land and Water Conservation Fund
preserving OPEN SPACE
FOR WILDLIFE AND THE HEALTH OF OUR COMMUNITIES
7. Reform the Ethanol Mandate
8. Full funding for Delaware’s Open Space
and Farmland Preservation Programs
OVER
1/3
OF U.S. NATIVE SPECIES
ARE INCREASINGLY AT
RISK OF EXTINCTION
392
MILLION
POUNDS OF MENHADEN WERE
CAUGHT IN 2016.** LET’S MAKE
SURE WE LEAVE ENOUGH FOR
THESE CREATURES T00.
90%
OF DELAWARE WATERWAYS
ARE POLLUTED BY EXCESS
NUTRIENTS AND LEGACY TOXICS
DELAWARE’S
OPEN SPACES
PROGRAM PROTECTS
57,000
ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND ‡
105,000
ACRES OF DE FARM LAND
PERMANENTLY PRESERVED
BY THE DELAWARE
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE †
(67% OF THE 156,000 TOTAL
ACRES OF DE FARMLAND)
400,000
PEOPLE ANNUALLY HUNT,
FISH, OR WATCH WILDLIFE
IN DELAWARE
NATIONALLY,
4 MILLION
ACRES NEAR ETHANOL PLANTS
WERE CONVERTED FROM WILDLIFE
HABITAT TO CROP PRODUCTION
SINCE 2008
learn more : DELNATURE.ORG/ADVOCACY