What We Do

  • Build a partnership-based approach to stewardship
  • Combine individual strengths to accomplish missions
  • Foster relationships, common goals, and collaboration
  • Build constituencies and broad-based community support
  • Reach out to underserved communities and find ways to work together
  • Leverage resources to meet challenges and improve opportunities
  • Meet the needs of Environmental Justice communities

Our Programs

Partners and Intergovernmental Affairs is part of the larger External Affairs program in headquarters, along with Public Affairs, Congressional and Legislative Affairs, and Marketing Communications. 

We also house the Environmental Justice and Nontraditional Partners and Communities programs.

Open field of poppies and wishbone bush at San Diego National Wildlife Refuge,
The initial environmental justice spark sprang from a Warren County, NC protest. In 1982, a small, predominately African-American community was designated to host a hazardous waste landfill. This landfill would accept PCB-contaminated soil that resulted from illegal dumping of toxic waste along...
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Group picture three Service employees and two Phi Beta Sigma members.
The Division of Partners and Intergovernmental Affairs is responsible for, among other duties, establishing, managing and strengthening partnerships between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Service (Service) and national non-traditional organizations.
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Herd of elk standing on top of hill
The Office of Communications program is the primary "voice" of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, communicating with the public, partners, and Congress. We share the Service story with the public and media through websites, social media, and news releases. We also work with Congress, partners, and...
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Washington,DC
the dome of US Capitol in blue sky
The Division of Congressional and Legislative Affairs is the liaison between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Congress. The Division is responsible for ensuring effective and appropriate communications between Congress and the Service, and for implementing the Service’s legislative agenda...
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Falls Church,VA
frog on mossy bank
Marketing Communications is responsible for web, social media, and video strategy and development, as well as printing and publishing operations in support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service mission.
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