ICCF Hosts Conservation Council Luncheon with Co-Chairs of the International Conservation Caucus and the Oceans Caucus

On Wednesday, March 25th, ICCF hosted its annual Conservation Council Luncheon on Capitol Hill.

This high-level event was an opportunity for the Congressional leadership that ICCF supports to address our Conservation Council partners in the diplomatic, corporate, philanthropic, and NGO community, highlighting bipartisan priorities for the upcoming year. These priorities will help advance U.S. leadership in international conservation and promote sustainable development, health, peace, and security around the world.

ICCF was joined by many of the Senate ICC co-chairs, including Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), John Boozman (R-AR), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). We were also joined by House co-chairs Representatives David Joyce (R-OH), Betty McCollum (D-MN), and Henry Cuellar (D-TX).

Assembled legislators and partners discussed the pressing need to implement the US Foundation for Natural Security and Counterterrorism, as well as opportunities for bipartisan conservation wins like reauthorizing the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Conservation Act. In a world of dwindling national budgets, innovative conservation finance mechanisms like these help make the US and its allies more secure by promoting stability and preventing resource conflict in the developing world.