Friend of Wildlife,

During 2025, rollbacks of funding, coupled with the accelerated number and severity of life-changing climate disasters such as storms and flooding, are leaving coastal communities and critical habitats wholly devastated.

Adaptation and mitigation are as important as ever, but the resources to advance resilience are changing.

The National Wildlife Federation remains committed to working with local, state, and federal partners to build community capacity and implement innovative solutions to respond to climate hazards that protect wildlife, people, and the planet.

As a nonpartisan organization, NWF serves as a connector for those focused on habitat restoration, climate solutions, and resilient communities. NWF’s coastal resilience team is continuing its work across the Northeast and Mid Atlantic and is excited to increase impact by building new partnerships and replicating successful, nature based solutions in Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

In this issue, we are excited to take a deep dive into adaptive management, share more about community relocation, and highlight the ribbon cutting of an innovative living shoreline project in Havre de Grace, Maryland.

We thank you for continuing to support our commitment to coastal resilience, and welcome your questions, thoughts or wonders.