This past month was a historic one for landscape conservation and connectivity in the United States. Each week in March of this year, the Biden administration rolled out a major new initiative to conserve and restore lands, waters, and wildlife across large regions of the country. The recent slew of announcements demonstrates that our movement to think and act on conservation at the landscape level has come of age.
Assess. Protect. Evaluate. Assessing Linear Infrastructure Threats to Great Apes and Gibbons in Three Key Landscapes Apes, which include critically endangered species such as gorillas and orangutans, are particularly vulnerable to the effects of linear infrastructure development as their forest homes become further fragmented and human disturbance increases. With support from the Arcus Foundation, the
Many remarkable long-distance migrations of wildlife occur around the world every year to ensure that animals arrive at the right place at the right time for feeding, mating, and birthing. Meanwhile, shorter-distance movements, such as those of black bears, are less epic but no less important in the quest to find suitable mates, food, and den sites. But what happens when love is in the air, but movement becomes difficult due to habitat fragmentation? The short-term effect may be a missed connection, but in the long-term, it could reduce the genetic diversity that helps keep wildlife populations healthy.
The Center is increasingly engaging with partners across Central Asia to build capacity, promote research, and implement connectivity conservation efforts in the countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. We are proud to be part of growing collaboration across this globally important biodiversity hotspot that has, among other progress, yielded important scientific evidence about the presence of an endangered and charismatic species—the Persian leopard—in Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.
As Foundation & Grants Manager, Megan works to raise awareness and funds for the Center. She is an advocate for preserving wild landscapes and protecting wildlife populations through science-based strategies. Megan is passionate about connecting organizations with enthusiastic supporters who are eager to make a difference in their community and across the globe, believing that
Most motorists would agree that roads and animals can be a dangerous mix. Crashes involving wildlife are often deadly for animals and, in some cases, may also cause serious injury or death to humans. Efforts to reduce the risk of animal-vehicle collisions most often focus on human safety, but what if transportation officials and conservation scientists worked together to address dangers to both people and wildlife?
MONTREAL, DEC. 15, 2022 – Asia is experiencing the highest infrastructure investment rates globally, led by transportation and energy sector expansion. Yet much of this planned infrastructure will bisect some of the world’s most biodiverse areas and affect access to vital natural resources that people depend upon for their livelihoods, such as forest products and clean water.
As our nation’s highways get bigger and busier, wildlife habitat and populations become more fragmented, and wild animals find it increasingly difficult to safely cross roads. The wildlife-vehicle collisions that kill more than one million large mammals each year in the U.S. also cause hundreds of human fatalities and tens of thousands of injuries. To help address this dangerous problem to both wildlife and people, the nonprofit Center for Large Landscape Conservation, Montana State University’s Western Transportation Institute, and Dr. David Theobald with Conservation Planning Technologies have published the results of the West-Wide Study to Identify Important Highway Locations for Wildlife Crossings.
West-Wide Study to Identify Important Highway Locations for Wildlife Crossings The Center for Large Landscape Conservation is pleased to share valuable new tools to help make the West a safer, better-connected landscape for humans and wildlife! The West-Wide Study to Identify Important Highway Locations for Wildlife Crossings is a report and associated mapping website
Advancing Connectivity Solutions for the Convention on Migratory Species Three team members are representing the Center for Large Landscape Conservation at the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS/CoP-14). Held every three years, this conference is being held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan from 12-17 February 2024. Along with experts, scientists, and
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