Resources

This report was prepared in the frame of multiple projects taking place in Turkmenistan with the participation of international experts and staff of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan. It discusses monitoring and conservation activities carried out throughout 2023 in different areas across the country. A primary focus is on Persian leopard, their prey, and sympatric carnivores, but also includes information about strengthening the management of Koytendag State Nature Reserve as part of CLLC projects supported by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF). The report also includes general and reserve-specific recommendations – based on observations, discussions, and camera trap data – directed to the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

The first of two articles on the Asian Elephant Transport Working Group reports. This brief introduces the adverse impacts of expanding linear transportation infrastructure on ecological connectivity and wildlife movement and the tools that are available to diminish the impacts.

The Handbook gives specific recommendations for reducing the harmful impacts of roads and railways by providing expert-informed guidance on designing larger, Asian elephant-specific crossings.

State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs) are important vehicles for connectivity conservation. State wildlife agencies must complete State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs) to qualify for funding from the State Wildlife Grants program, which was established in 2000 to support the conservation of at-risk species and their habitat. Since that time, SWAPs have become recognized as “conservation blueprints” that compile the best available science, identify conservation priorities, and promote coordination across various partners. This report provides SWAP planners and partners with a comprehensive “menu” of connectivity actions and recommendations for addressing connectivity in SWAP planning and implementation.

U.S. Department of the Interior Publication: Applying landscape-level approaches to resource management allows the U.S. Department of the Interior and its partners to address problems they cannot resolve alone. Furthermore, this approach advances social, environmental, and economic goals shared across federal, state, and tribal governments and with non-governmental partners. This guide provides best practices, tools, and case studies to support Interior Department staff to apply landscape-level approaches effectively.

Published 2021; Revised 2023. This toolkit provides an overview of the Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program and other fish and wildlife provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, suggestions for how applicants and their partners can engage, and best practices, examples, and resources for designing effective wildlife crossing projects in accordance with each of the grant application criterion of the Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program.

More than a dozen climate, wildlife, and road ecology experts from across the country wrote this consensus statement urging government officials at all levels to consider climate change when planning and constructing structures that help fish and wildlife cross under and over highways. As the appetite increases for solutions that improve wildlife migration and movement while reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions, there is a heightened need and opportunity for designing infrastructure that is sited and designed in ways that accommodate the current and anticipated impacts of climate change. Climate-informed wildlife crossings, including fish passage, would help both people and nature adapt.

This resource is a compilation of lessons learned and best practices in action by land trusts engaged in wildlife crossing structure projects, and includes many diverse examples and links to allow for further examination. This toolkit has the intention to inform and support land trusts that are less familiar with connectivity and wildlife crossing efforts and is is geared for those interested in better understanding the critical role that land trusts play in increasing wildlife crossings across the nation and in how land trusts already work with transportation-related projects.

Cascade-Siskiyou Connectivity Symposium summary report that identifies opportunities for connectivity conservation in five focus areas: Research & Monitoring, Land Use & Policy, Transportation & Infrastructure, Restoration & Stewardship, and Land Conservation & Outreach.

We compile policies, analyses, and efforts related to connectivity and crossings issues, focusing on eleven states in the western conterminous United States.