Friday, Sep 21, 2018

There is good news on the front to stem the decline of wildlife in Michigan - a powerful plan exists that could counter otherwise devastating trends.

As our feature story explains (p. 18), Michigan's updated Wildlife Action Plan, facilitated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources with the help of MNA and other conservation partners, is designed to provide a strategic framework to coordinate conservation in Michigan for wildlife and their habitats.

We believe the Wildlife Action Plan is a conservation strategy for the state unlike anything we have had before. MNA is aligning our goals and actions with those of the Wildlife Action Plan across all our programs - land protection, habitat restoration, stewardship, outreach and education - to ensure we are providing as much value as we can.

We are proud to be a champion for the Wildlife Action Plan, but it will take many collaborators to fully implement it. As Amy Derosier, the Michigan DNR's Wildlife Action Plan Coordinator, says in our Q&A (p. 33), "Ultimately, it will take many people at the table who care and are engaged" to implement the Wildlife Action Plan and address our growing wildlife crisis. We couldn't agree more.