Sky Island Alliance

http://www.skyislandalliance.org/

Who we are?
Carianne Campbell
Bryon Lichtenhan
Mirna Manteca
Elena Vanasse Torres

What we do?
Connect
Explore

Protect

Restore

We

Adapt

Protect
Sky Island Alliances Protect Program safeguards open space and
wildlife habitat that provides for quiet recreation, solitude and a
sense of wonder for nature and wild lands. We identify and help
protect special places that require and deserve protection. We
work with agencies and engage with agency processes to help
improve land management decisions. We also work with partners
to help promote the creation of new Wilderness, National
Conservation Areas, National Monuments, Areas of Critical
Environmental Concern, Research Natural Areas, or other
appropriate designations that provide protection for public lands

We

Explore
The Explore program is all about discovery, science, and learning.
We are furthering the scientific knowledge, public understanding
and regional advocacy for conservation and ecosystems through
our Madrean Archipelago Biodiversity Assessment (MABA) project.
We lead scientific expeditions to explore new places and discover
new species. We include community outreach, restoration, and
landowner and student capacity building in every trip. Our goal is
to make significant contributions to the current body of knowledge
related to biodiversity for conservation, shared through a public
database.

We

Connect
Wildlife need space to move and thrive. We work to ensure they
have that space: a network of connected and protected habitats
between Sky Island mountain ranges. Our work promotes
conservation on both sides of the US-Mexico borderlands a
region of astounding beauty, diversity, and wildness; of jaguars and
brown vine snakes, secret hidden springs, and pathways traveled
by coati, black bears, and deer.We are connecting people with the
landscape and to wildlife, engaging them as conservation learners,
advocates and leaders.

We

Restore
The Sky Island Restoration Cooperative (SIRC) isan international
coalition of restoration practitioners,scientists, land managers,
and private citizens coming together torestore ecological
processes and systems of the Sky Islandregion: the Madrean
Archipelago of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Since the
groupsinception in 2014, Sky Island Alliance hasplayed a critical
role with SIRC as both a collaborating partner and coalition
facilitator. The work of SIRC is an excellent example and model
forSky Island Alliances collaborative and grassroots approach to
restoration in the Sky Islands.

We

Adapt
Sky Island Alliance envisions a future where a diversity of species
and intact ecosystems are resilient to climate change. The Adapt
Program works to ensure that species and ecosystems have the
space they need to adapt. We help land and resource managers
plan for climate change. We work to build policies and regulations
that make sense for wildlife and water in a warmer, drier world.

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Bacoachi Workshop 2016

Thank you for you attention.