Our Conservation Progams turn our Continental Scale Conservation Vision into Reality

The Wildlands Project's team of conservation biologists, advocates, and partner groups has created maps and scientific plans--from the grand scale down to the local level--that connect parks, wilderness areas and other large protected lands. In turn, these plans become blueprints for communities and other regional partners to begin prioritizing, identifying and protecting key wildlands areas that will connect North America's protected areas in a system of continental passageways that are necessary for our wild life. Check out our varied programs, view maps, find a contact, and if there isn't one in your local area, please remember that saving wildlife along our identified continental wildlife passageways will positively affect the health and quality of life of all North Americans. So please join us!

Our Focus Programs for 2005

In the next year we will focus on conservation planning action in the Northern Appalachians (U.S. and Canada) and the mountains and deserts of Northern Mexico and the Southwest U.S. This includes our very successful campaigns in the Sky Island region of Arizona and New Mexico and moving ahead on our Wildlands Network Design for the Northern Appalachians. We will also explore some promising developments for conservation planning in the Pacific Northwest.

Our Ongoing Partnership Programs Based on Wildlands Network Designs

Many of our Network Designs have been completed through the help of many partner groups and are well into the implementation phases such as our Heart of the West and Southern Rockies Projects. Numerous conservation groups and community coalitions have taken on the task of protecting the necessary land that provides room to roam for our important keystone species of animals, thereby allowing other subspecies to flourish once again.

Our Ongoing Partnership Programs

Other Wildlands Project partners have requested our participation in their wilderness protection and connection Initiatives. Here, we offer our partners expertise in advocacy efforts, fundraising and scientific research. Currently we are partners with the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, the jaguar and thick-billed parrot protection programs in Mexico's Northern Sierra Madre, and with the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council.