{"id":704,"date":"2026-01-08T16:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impact.nwf.org\/2025\/?post_type=story&#038;p=704"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:17:52","slug":"habitat-conservation-fund-extended","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/impact.nwf.org\/2025\/stories\/habitat-conservation-fund-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitat Conservation Fund Extended\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\">Together with the Planning and Conservation League, we successfully advocated to <a href=\"https:\/\/sd38.senate.ca.gov\/news\/assembly-passes-sen-blakespears-legislation-protect-habitat-conservation-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extend the Habitat Conservation Fund<\/a>, which was established by the California Wildlife Protection Act passed by voters in June 1990. To date, the $30 million a year fund has funded hundreds of projects which protected and restored more than 1.2 million acres of wildlife habitat throughout California. With a new sunset date in 2035, an additional $150 million will support more critical conservation work.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><em>Photo Credit: Natalie Brown<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Together with the Planning and Conservation League, we successfully advocated to extend the Habitat Conservation Fund, which was established by the California Wildlife Protection Act passed by voters in June 1990. To date, the $30 million a year fund has funded hundreds of projects which protected and restored more than 1.2 million acres of wildlife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":692,"template":"","meta":{"featured_image_background_position":"","location":"California","address-full":"","lat":38.60308,"lng":-121.448684,"footnotes":""},"topic":[4],"pillar":[5],"class_list":["post-704","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>Habitat Conservation Fund Extended\u00a0 - 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\/habitat-conservation-fund-extended\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Habitat Conservation Fund Extended\u00a0 - 2025 Impact Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Together with the Planning and Conservation League, we successfully advocated to extend the Habitat Conservation Fund, which was established by the California Wildlife Protection Act passed by voters in June 1990. 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