; (12) Federal and State agencies continue to develop policies to address— (A) the importance of conserving fish, wildlife, and plant corridors; (B) the gap between science and management for at-risk species; and (C) ecological connectivity; and (13) Federal policies consistently recognize the importance of voluntary improvement projects by private landowners to habitat conservation and restoration for native species. (b) Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (1) to support a diverse array of native species, including species protected under Federal, State, and Tribal law, that have experienced or may experience habitat loss, degradation, fragmentation, or obstruction to connectivity; (2) to provide long-term habitat connectivity for native species migration, dispersal, adaptation to climate and other environmental change, and genetic exchange; (3) to help restore wildlife movements that have been disrupted by habitat loss, degradation, fragmentation, or obstruction; (4) to facilitate coordinated landscape- and seascape-scale connectivity planning and management across jurisdictions; and (5) to support State, Tribal, local, voluntary private landowner, and Federal agency decisionmakers in the planning and development of National Wildlife Corridors. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Appropriate committees of Congress The term appropriate committees of Congress means— (A) the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; (B) the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate; (C) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; (D) the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives; (E) the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives; and (F) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. (2) Connectivity The term connectivity means the degree to which the landscape or seascape facilitates native species movement. (3) Corridor The term corridor means a feature of the landscape or seascape that— (A) provides habitat or ecological connectivity