America the Beautiful For All Coalition

📍Join us in San Juan, Puerto Rico for a groundbreaking event: the "New Era, New Leaders: 5 Years to 30x30" conference.

🌊 As the inaugural conference of the America the Beautiful for All Coalition, we're uniting voices from a range of identities, communities, and cultures to redefine conservation through the lens of community justice.

💪 At this pivotal moment, we're bringing together land, freshwater, and ocean advocates from across the nation to co-create an inclusive "first 100 days" plan for the next Presidential administration, chart a collaborative course to close the gap to 30%, and achieve 30x30, & revolutionize the conservation movement with a focus on meaningful representation, equity, and justice!

🦌Registration is open NOW for affiliated organizations.

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🌲Today is the Anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act!

🏞️We celebrate its bipartisan monumental impact on conservation and access to green spaces! Enacted on August 4, 2020, this legislation has been a game-changer for our national parks and public lands, providing crucial funding to enhance and maintain these natural treasures. This exemplifies our collective effort to guarantee everyone access to green spaces.

✨ Protecting public lands is crucial for improving air and water quality, offering outdoor recreation, boosting cognitive function, reducing blood pressure, enhancing mental health, and mitigating climate change.

Photo Credit: Rio Grande International Study Center

🐳Throwback to the beginning of June, Ocean Month, where many of the coalition’s leaders and Ocean Workgroup hosted and attended Upwell: A Wave of Ocean Justice, an online symposium that prioritizes the experiences and voices of historically marginalized communities in ocean conservation discussions.

🌊Photo Credit: Ralph Alswag for Center for American Progress

💚In April 2024, the Urban Parks and Green Space workgroup met with local partners in Chicago to hear from leaders in the community working to advance urban greening and discuss policy and non-policy solutions for greening.

🌲The group immersed themselves in the amazing work that Chicago is leading by seeing firsthand the progress being made in Chicago to close the nature gap!

Breaking: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today formally established Blackwell School National Historic Site in Texas as the nation’s newest national park. The park is the seventh national park unit designated under President Biden. Recent additions include the designation of Amache National Historic Site in Colorado, the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Illinois and Mississippi, and Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park in Kansas.

: According to the 2024 , 80% of Latino voters would be more likely to vote for candidates that support STRONGER policies to protect the ocean. 🐋 Learn more about the 2024 National and the policies Latino communities support at Azul.org. Follow for more!

BREAKING NEWS: Today, the Bureau of Land Management took a big step toward finalizing protections for 28 million acres of public lands in Alaska, saving them from extractive industrial development. Now, we have 30 days to tell federal land managers to finish the job.
Can you thank the Biden Administration for taking this step? And as we look toward a final decision later this summer, can you help us keep the momentum strong for safeguarding these irreplaceable landscapes? These public lands support fish and wildlife, local communities, clean water, healthy habitat, and food security. And they are some of the planet’s largest intact landscapes! LINK IN BIO

🌲Yesterday, the Biden-Harris Admin took historic steps to conserve and restore America’s old-growth forests - a key solution for absorbing carbon emissions and protecting communities from wildfire. Hear what members of the ATB4All coalition had to say about it!

🌲The Biden-Harris Admin is delivering on his ambitious climate agenda, taking historic steps to conserve and restore America’s old-growth forests - a key solution for absorbing carbon emissions and protecting communities from wildfire.

🌳This proposal from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Forest Service to amend all national forest plans marks major progress on the path to 30x30 and invest in the health of ecosystems and nearby communities!

🎊Join us in celebrating and calling for policies that will protect the health of communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

Today is Juneteenth, the anniversary of when Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas to carry out the news of the Emancipation Proclamation and ensure that 250,000 enslaved Black Americans were free.

We continue to stand with Black environmental justice leaders, advocating for equitable access to nature, preservation of Black history, and celebration of Black joy outdoors.

📅 Save the Date: October 1-3, 2024!

🌎Join us for the inaugural America the Beautiful for All Coalition Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The conference, New Era, New Leaders: 5 Years to 30x30, aims to connect the coalition members and thought leaders, highlight Puerto Rico's biodiversity and conservation efforts, align with the Justice40 initiative, and support a climate change-affected community. Mark your calendars!

🌊🏆 Congratulations to Violet Sage Walker for her well-deserved Sanctuary Wavemaker Award from National Marine Sanctuary Foundation !

As Chair of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council, she led the effort to designate a new Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary on the Central Coast of California. Her leadership is backed by an understanding of what it means to take care of our place, be good stewards, and nurture multicultural community connections.

Violet is a fearless champion of marine stewardship. Learn more about her legacy and Chumash Sanctuary ’s work: https://chumashsanctuary.org/2024/04/09/2024-sanctuary-wavemaker-award/

Last week, the Biden administration published a management plan for the Mariana Trench — a major milestone toward conserving 30% of US lands and waters by 2030.

This management plan, which accounts for the voices of local communities, Indigenous peoples, fishers, and other stakeholders, is something that we have long advocated for.

Interested in learning more? Read about what ocean advocates Friends of the Mariana Trench have to say about this accomplishment: https://www.saipantribune.com/news/local/fotm-expresses-gratitude-for-publication-of-mtmnm-management-plan/article_5f55466c-2640-11ef-8e60-ab2422b5be6e.html

🌊 Happy World Ocean Day!

The ocean sustains humanity and all life on earth — protecting it is crucial. Here are some of our top priorities for ocean conservation:
🔷 Ensure access, equity, and quality of conservation along coasts
🔷 Support marine protected areas
🔷 Ensure marine protected area management and implementation

Interested in learning more? Check out our 2024 policy priorities:
https://americathebeautifulforall.org/2024-policy-agenda/

Tomorrow is the 118th anniversary of the Antiquities Act 🌲✨

This landmark law protects our nation’s most culturally and historically significant lands — from the Grand Canyon to Stonewall.

Let’s honor its legacy by following the lead of local communities and preserving the stories and places that must be protected now and into the future. In acknowledging the Act’s legacy, we also celebrate the sovereignty and work of Indigenous Tribes to safeguard and the connection to their cultural heritage.

✨New funding opportunity✨

Federal Highway Administration will award $350 million in grants for projects to build crossings and other improvements that will allow wildlife to get where they need to go safely, reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions and keeping us all safer on the road.

This new federal grant program provides crucial funding that has long been unavailable to frontline communities and Indigenous tribes.

We can't wait to see these projects come to life! Find out if you’re eligible and apply.: https://highways.dot.gov/federal-lands/wildlife-crossings/pilot-program

Happy 🗣️ Angelo Villagomez, our ocean workgroup co-lead and an Indigenous conservationist with Center for American Progress, took the stage at .

His insights on effective marine protection management are a must-watch! Don’t miss it:

Angelo Villagomez at Our Ocean Greece 2024 Angelo Villagomez from the Center for American Progress spoke on the mainstage of Our Ocean Greece on the panel about Effective Management of Marine Protecte...

🌟 Discover the groundbreaking strides made by Secretary Deb Haaland in conservation and supporting Tribes and Indigenous peoples.

A historic tenure shaping the future of our public lands! Read more about her achievements here by Center for American Progress:

Secretary Deb Haaland Has Made Historic Progress at the Department of the Interior Deb Haaland, the 54th U.S. secretary of the interior, has delivered historic conservation policies and made groundbreaking progress in addressing the treatment of Tribal and Indigenous peoples in the United States.

The Biden Administration just took an important step toward safeguarding a vital, beautiful treasure trove of marine life, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. The newly released Final Management Plan will provide a roadmap for protecting the irreplaceable marine Monument. https://www.fws.gov/project/monument-management-plan

🐟 At River Network’s River Rally, our freshwater co-lead, Martin Castro, and workgroup member, Usman Mahmood, led a conversation on how to ensure conservation funding goes to the communities that need it most.

The presentation underscored the coalition’s priority of uplifting community-based organizations that are already doing the work to restore and protect important lands and waters. Achieving our goals of conserving 30% of US lands and water by 2030 will only be possible in collaboration with frontline communities.

View more River Rally highlights: https://www.rivernetwork.org/connect-learn/river-rally/reviews/

Happy ! Join and and !

In the open-armed spirit of , ask U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of the Interiorr, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Forest Service to present an America the Beautiful Pass ( ) as a “Welcome to America” gift to each newly naturalized citizen at swearing-in ceremonies, help break down barriers to cashless entry to our National Parks and other recreational sites for unbanked persons, and host more swearing-in ceremonies on public land recreation sites.
https://act.greenlatinos.org/a/america-the-beautiful-park-pass-petition

🌎 Dive into ocean justice with on June 4! 🌊 We’ll discuss equitable access to ocean resources and the impact of climate change on coastal communities.

Coalition members, Marce, Kat, Ayana, Jasmin, and Angelo, will be part of the conversation. 🗣️ Join us online with Center for American Progress! https://www.americanprogress.org/events/upwell-a-wave-of-ocean-justice-online/