NATIONAL COASTAL RESILIENCE FUND INCREASING THE NATION’S NATURAL DEFENSE

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Monday, 20 May 2019

ReImagina Puerto Rico les informa que el National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) anunció la apertura del Fondo Nacional para la Resiliencia Costera para el 2019. NFWF realizará inversiones para restaurar y fortalecer los sistemas naturales para que puedan proteger a las comunidades costeras de los impactos de tormentas, inundaciones y otros peligros naturales y les permita una recuperación rápida, al tiempo que mejora los hábitats de poblaciones de peces y vida silvestre. 

 

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is pleased to announce the National Coastal Resilience Fund for 2019. NFWF will make investments to restore and strengthen natural systems so they can protect coastal communities from the impacts of storms, floods, and other natural hazards and enable them to recover more quickly, while also enhancing habitats for important fish and wildlife populations. Contiguous areas of natural habitat such as coastal marshes and wetlands, coastal forests, rivers, and streams, dune and beach systems, oyster and coral reefs -- maintained at a significant size for the habitat type -- provide communities with enhanced protection and buffering from the growing impacts of sea-level rise, changing flood patterns, increased frequency and intensity of storms, and other environmental stressors. NFWF identifies these types of natural areas as “Resilience Hubs1 ” – areas where natural resource restoration efforts will have the greatest impact for human community resilience, as well as for fish and wildlife – and have prioritized the areas that provide dual benefits under this program. It is not required that projects are located in an area identified by NFWF as a resilience hub to be eligible.

NFWF will award approximately $29 million in grants to create, expand, and restore natural systems in areas that will both increase protection for communities from coastal storms, sea- and lake-level changes, inundation, and coastal erosion while also improving valuable habitats for fish and wildlife species. NFWF will invest in projects in three focus areas:  

  • Project Preliminary Design and Site Assessment  
  • Project Final Design and Permitting  
  • Project Restoration and Monitoring

Many of the projects will support natural restoration efforts proven to restore natural storm mitigation services and reduce flood risk from episodic events. NFWF seeks to enhance and further refine these activities through grant making to learn and share best practices for the greatest impact nation-wide. NFWF is also interested in funding innovative projects that seek to re-shape our thinking on how to protect communities in light of projected environmental stressors that may go beyond neighboring habitat restoration alone, to truly novel approaches to address these challenges. NFWF seeks to incorporate adaptation to the projected future conditions of each investment. This program is funded by, and coordinated with, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Shell Oil Company, and TransRe and will include input from other federal agencies and outside experts.

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