Resources

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

This brief outlines the key components from a report on connectivity policy solutions in New Jersey at nested scales. Ensuring habitat connectivity is critical for improving roadway safety, helping wildlife adapt to a changing climate, ensuring equitable access to nature, and providing important ecosystem services.

This Technical Report provides an overview of practical, feasible science-based strategies for PCA managers, transport practitioners, industry, conservationists and other stakeholders interested in biodiversity and ecological connectivity conservation in, and adjacent to, PCAs. It identifies effective solutions that can be used in a variety of contexts around the world and promotes best practices for the various phases of infrastructure development: planning, design, construction, operations and monitoring. Furthermore, it underscores the need for cross-sectoral commitments to good governance, effective policies, and financing for avoiding and mitigating the impacts of LTI on the environment.

This document breaks down Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, laying out the effective implementation through equitable and human rights-based action. In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, IUCN, and the World Commission on Protect Areas, this report was spearheaded by WWF and supported by the Global Environment Facility.

This report focuses on transportation mitigation policy issues relevant to the desert tortoise. It provides an overview of relevant federal and state policies and key stakeholders involved in related desert tortoise recovery and highlights key policy issues gleaned from the task force and key-informant interviews. This report is a product of the Desert Tortoise Transportation Ecology Task Force and was supported by CLLC, the Western Transportation Institute, ARC Solutions, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

This report focuses on documenting the experiences and knowledge of practitioners, researchers, and managers with the funding, planning, design, implementation, and investigation of the effectiveness of measures taken to avoid, mitigate or compensate for the effects of roads and traffic on the federally threatened Mojave desert tortoise. This report was prepared under the guidance of the Mojave Desert Tortoise Transportation Ecology Task Force with support from CLLC, the Western Transportation Institute, and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

In this brief, released on the occasion of the UN Environment Programme’s Final Intergovernmental Consultations on Nature-Based Solutions (October, 2023), the Center explains why ecological corridors are essential for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

The 2023 Annual Report features many of our activities, accomplishments, and partnerships from the past year. It highlights how, with your support, we are making strides to advance ecological connectivity for climate resilience worldwide through science, policy, practice, and collaboration. 

The US-191/MT-64 Wildlife & Transportation Assessment Key Findings describe 11 priority sites and recommendations to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and reconnect habitat along this gateway to Yellowstone.

The US-191/MT-64 Wildlife & Transportation Assessment describes 11 priority sites and recommendations to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and reconnect habitat along this gateway to Yellowstone. The goals of the Assessment are to identify areas with high levels of wildlife-vehicle collisions and those that are important to maintain wildlife movement, inform and support communities and agencies in decision-making, and recommend measures to improve road safety as well as habitat connectivity for both land and aquatic species.