Wildlands Network
Photo by Chelsea Doyen-Thomas
Our Mission
Wildlands Network's mission is to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.
Our Vision
Sustaining biodiversity requires a big-picture vision. Our projects are strategically positioned across Canada, the United States and Mexico to connect and preserve nature at a continental scale.
Continental Wildways
Using the principles of conservation biology, our founders identified the core native wildlife habitat areas and the corridors that connect them.
We call them Wildways.
This innovative concept has fundamentally shaped conservation projects across North America.
Pacific Wildway
Originating in the Cascade Mountain range of Southern British Columbia, down into Washington, Oregon, Nevada and California and ending in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Western Wildway
Originating in the Yukon Ranges of Alaska, down through Alberta, Canada, the Rocky Mountains, and the Sky Islands of Arizona and New Mexico, and ending in the Sierra Madre Occidental in northern Mexico.
Eastern Wildway
Originating in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada, down into New England, along the Appalachian Mountains and coastal eastern United States, and ending in Florida.
Our Locations
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Wildlands Network’s presence extends across all three Wildways, reflecting our continental-scale vision. Explore the locations where our staff and projects are based.
Land Acknowledgement
Wildlands Network recognizes that the landscapes we seek to reconnect, restore and rewild are the current and historic homelands of Tribal and Indigenous Communities that were forcibly and violently removed, assimilated and killed by colonizers and their descendants. We acknowledge that colonialist ideologies and systems continue to permeate our governmental and societal structures, including conservation organizations like ours.
We seek to understand and reckon with this history by building relationships with Tribal and Indigenous Communities and Nations across North America, in order to better incorporate their leadership and knowledge as we collectively create a future where all humans and wildlife can thrive.
