Cutting Refuge Funding Would Have "Dire Consequences" in Wake of Gulf Oil Spill WASHINGTON, June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a letter delivered to President Obama today, a national coalition of wildlife conservation and sporting organizations has asked the President to take cuts to the National Wildlife Refuge System's budget off the table as he considers cutting federal agency spending by five percent in FY 2012.

WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill is expected to make landfall on two of the most important wildlife areas in the United States, the Delta National Wildlife Refuge, located at the mouth of the Mississippi River and the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, a designated Wilderness first set aside by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903.

By Scott Canon, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Jul. 20--ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Alaska -- This place is a Zen thing. The only way to tell you've wandered in is the absence of anything saying so. No signs. No road to get here.

WASHINGTON, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report released to Congress today finds the nation's 548 National Wildlife Refuges are vastly under-funded, leading to unstaffed refuges and closings; unsafe roads and trails; decreased safety; millions of acres of invasive species; unprotected at-risk species; and hundreds of layoffs.

MARSHFIELD - The Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary has grown by about 30 acres thanks to a land donation to the Massachusetts Audubon Society's South Shore Sanctuaries by residents Arnon and Constance Gerard.