{"id":179,"date":"2025-11-25T23:49:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impact.nwf.org\/2025\/stories\/coalition-successfully-funds-delaware-river-basin-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:28:53","slug":"coalition-successfully-funds-delaware-river-basin-projects","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/impact.nwf.org\/2025\/stories\/coalition-successfully-funds-delaware-river-basin-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition Successfully Funds Delaware River Basin Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\">The Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed advocated for federal appropriations to the Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delriverwatershed.org\/news\/2024\/12\/9\/coalition-for-the-delaware-river-watershed-celebrates-17-million-in-grants-to-enhance-the-health-of-the-delaware-river-watershed-and-honors-senator-tom-carpers-leadership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which awarded $17 million across 45 projects<\/a>. One example is NWF&#8217;s NJ Affiliate New Jersey Audubon\u2019s $351,800 grant to monitor shorebird and horseshoe crab populations in the Delaware Bay, supporting volunteer tagging programs that provide data critical to the recovery of red knots, other shorebirds, and horseshoe crabs.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><em>Photo Credit: Gregory Breese<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed advocated for federal appropriations to the Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund, which awarded $17 million across 45 projects. One example is NWF&#8217;s NJ Affiliate New Jersey Audubon\u2019s $351,800 grant to monitor shorebird and horseshoe crab populations in the Delaware Bay, supporting volunteer tagging programs that provide data critical to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":658,"template":"","meta":{"featured_image_background_position":"","location":"Cape May, NJ","address-full":"700 Washington St\nCape May, NJ 08204","lat":38.935071,"lng":-74.919075,"footnotes":""},"topic":[4],"pillar":[5],"class_list":["post-179","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-state-stories","pillar-wildlife-recovery-and-habitat-restoration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Coalition Successfully Funds Delaware River Basin Projects - 2025 Impact Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/impact.nwf.org\/2025\/stories\/coalition-successfully-funds-delaware-river-basin-projects\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coalition Successfully Funds Delaware River Basin Projects - 2025 Impact Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed advocated for federal appropriations to the Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund, which awarded $17 million across 45 projects. 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