Since fitting 3 elk with GPS collars 8 months ago near Great Smoky Mountains National Park, we’ve collared 4 more elk and are continuing to monitor their movements across nearby roadways to potentially reduce dangerous wildlife-vehicle collisions. We’ll use the data from the GPS collars to recommend the best places for wildlife crossings on roadways surrounding the park, protecting both wildlife and people. Photo: Wildlands Network
Recent news, including a court ruling against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s mismanagement of wild red wolves and a comment counting effort that showed near unanimous support of red wolf recovery, shows the immense red wolf favor that exists in North Carolina’s swampy Albemarle Peninsula. But these small victories are not the end of the battle for the red wolf. Photo: Becky Bartell, USFWS
At a roundtable discussion of borderlands issues led by Sen. Bernie Sanders earlier this week, our borderlands program coordinator left with a little more hope about an equitable future for both wildlife and people in the area, as compassionate elected officials work to protect this unique region. Photo: Courtesy of Myles Traphagen
This Saturday—September 22—is National Public Lands Day. While it’s a chance to celebrate and give back to our shared spaces, it’s also an opportunity to shift the public policy that governs these special areas to include a broader ecological perspective. Photo: Kristen M. Caldon
Erin Yoder Logue was one of our two summer Law and Policy Interns in our Seattle office. During her time with us, Erin helped us move forward in our efforts to reconnect, restore, and rewild North America on the ground. Photo: Wildlands Network
To create continental-scale wildlife corridors, Wildlands Network stitches together a network of committed activists throughout each Wildway. To that end, we are now supporting a group of talented volunteers to help protect Mexico’s Rancho El Aribabi, which lies within a wildlife corridor between Mexico and the U.S. Photo: Myles Traphagen
In this second post in our People of the Pacific series, Susan Bonfield of Environment for the Americas and Blanca Lopez of ¡Team Naturaleza! discuss how their related organizations promote diversity in bird conservation through informal science education. Photo: Blanca Lopez
In this first post in our People of the Pacific blog post series, Shiloh Halsey from Pacific Wildway partner Cascade Forest Conservancy shares details on CFC’s multi-year beaver reintroduction project to restore beaver populations and aquatic habitat in the southern Washington Cascades. Photo: William C. Gladish
El primero de junio el candidato de izquierda, Andrés Manuel López Obrador fue elegido como nuevo Presidente de México, marcando un cambo enorme en el gobierno, ya que promete acabar de raíz con la corrupción. Si logra ese único propósito, sin una agenda ambiental estratégica, el movimiento ambientalista en México ya quedaría en una mejor posición. Foto: Jan Schipper
On July 1, leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected Mexico’s new president, signaling a huge shift in government as he promises to uproot corruption. Even if that’s all he achieves, with no firm strategic environmental agenda, the environmental movement in Mexico will still be in a better place. Photo: Jan Schipper
On the East Coast, the challenge we face now is reconnecting the region’s big core forests and wetlands into a network that is more than the sum of its parts, and do so fast enough and smart enough to stay ahead of the second wave of habitat loss due to urbanization marching across many popular parts of the region. Photo: Alexius Horatius
Our new Pacific Wildway aims to protect special recreation spaces from British Columbia to Baja California. In this third blog post about recreating in the Pacific Wildway, learn more about hiking in the Pasayten Wilderness and how its recovering from devastating wildfire. Photo: Richard Forbes
Our new Pacific Wildway aims to protect special recreation spaces from British Columbia to Baja California. In this second blog post about recreating in the Pacific Wildway, learn more about Yosemite National Park. Photo: Julia Walz
The National Parks Conservation Association included Grand Canyon National Park in their recent list, “The 10 National Parks with the Most Endangered Species,” highlighting the plight of the California condor. Photo: Chuck Szmurlo
Several species that call the borderlands region home face an almost insurmountable threat: Mexico’s Highway 2 has taken thousands of lives, both human and animal. With wildlife crossings, we can reduce the risk of wildlife-vehicle collisions and potentially save lives, putting us one step closer to a reconnected and rewilded North America. Photo: Myles Traphagen