We are taking action

to implement scalable solutions and build climate resilience for people and nature.

Few investments in the planet's future matter more than building resilience for nature. Climate corridors confront the two most urgent challenges we face — climate change and biodiversity loss — at once, giving wildlife room to move across landscapes that fragmentation had closed off. And because you can't protect what you haven't found, we pair that restoration with discovery — using exploration and genomic tools to reveal the species these corridors hold, many still unknown to science. Restoring connectivity and deepening what we know, together, is how we build a more resilient world for people and nature alike.

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We build climate corridors by:

  • Restoring degraded corridors on the ground — reforesting the Andean highlands with native and endemic trees, and replanting agave across the Madrean Sky Islands to rebuild the migratory nectar corridor for bats and pollinators

  • Maintaining existing forest cover and improving site-based management practices

  • Monitoring wildlife movement and ecological indicators with camera traps and field science

  • Developing and deploying conservation technology for the field

  • Fostering human–wildlife coexistence and supporting the next generation of field biologists

The Climate Corridors initiative is an international, replicable model of climate adaptation — safeguarding biodiversity and building resilience for both people and nature across the Andes-Amazon and the Madrean Sky Islands.

Our working landscape spans 26.5 million acres across the most biodiverse habitats on Earth.

Our Flagship Landscapes

Peru - Manu Climate Corridor

USA & Mexico - Madrean Sky Islands

  • The Purus - Manu Climate Corridor spans the steepest elevational gradient in the Andes Amazon system, climbing nearly four kilometers from lowland rainforest, through cloud forest into the alpine paramo grasslands of the Andes.

    This landscape forms the largest preserved section of the Peruvian Amazon and is the source of the region's four major freshwater rivers. In particular, the steep elevational gradient across Purus - Manu positions this landscape as an incredible opportunity to safeguard biodiversity en masse.

  • We collaborate with site-based parters Conservación Amazónica - ACCA to drive change in the Purus - Manu corridor. Our work is based out of a network of three biological field stations that span the Andes Amazon landscape. The first of its kind in the region, this network allows us to explore and discover the outstanding biological and cultural diversity of this region. Spanning an altitudinal gradient from 820 to 11,500 feet along the eastern border of Manu National Park, our stations are active centers of learning and discovery, attracting researchers, university courses, volunteers, and visitors from around the world. You can learn more about the ACCA field sties here.

  • Where the Sierra Madre reaches toward the Rocky Mountains, dozens of forested peaks rise like islands from a sea of desert and grassland. It's one of the most biodiverse regions in North America — a crossroads where temperate and subtropical species overlap, and a natural pathway as a warming climate pushes wildlife upslope and northward. But as the connections between these "islands" thin, the corridor frays.

  • A corridor is only as connected as the land it crosses. Much of that land is in private hands, so we partner closely with the people who care for it.

    In the Sky Islands, the "sea" between the mountains is desert grassland — and less than 10% of the Southwest's semi-desert grasslands remain predominantly native, with nearly 90% lost or degraded to shrub encroachment, invasive grasses, and development. Because so much of what remains is working ranchland, keeping the corridor connected means standing alongside the landowners who steward it.

    With our partner Wildlife in Motion, Climate Corridors is rebuilding the corridor from the ground up — restoring agave across the range to reconnect the migratory nectar corridor that long-nosed bats and other pollinators follow north each year, and tracking wildlife movement between the peaks.

    Alongside restoration, we help private landowners keep those corridors open for the long term:

    • Species reintroductions — returning native wildlife to landscapes they've vanished from, restoring the ecological links that hold a corridor together.

    • Safe Harbor Agreements — partnering with landowners who voluntarily protect at-risk species, backed by the assurances that let them take part without added regulatory risk.

    • Conservation easements — helping landowners permanently protect the parcels that stitch habitats together, so the corridor stays connected for generations.

Climate Corridors' Pillars

PILLAR 1: Biota Discovery

PILLAR 2: Detect and Protect Wildlife

PILLAR 3: Resilient Landscapes

PILLAR 4: Grow the Community of Field Biologists

  • PILLAR 1: Biota Discovery

  • Rapidly accelerating global species discovery through exploration and genomic technology.

  • Using environmental DNA, DNA barcoding, and field expeditions to remote regions, Climate Corridors is finding and documenting the species science has yet to describe — Coming soon.

  • This front-line work allows us to monitor and model upward or downward shifts in species ranges in response to land use and temperature change.

  • We plant a biodiverse array of native, rare and endemic species. Last year, we planted over 417 native tree species.

  • PILLAR 2: DETECT AND PROTECT WILDLIFE

  • Using field science and conservation technology to understand where wildlife is — and what happens to it.

  • Deploying camera traps, acoustic networks, and movement ecology tools across full elevational gradients — generating the data that drives protection on the ground.

  • Long-term programs on Andean bears, cloud forest mammals, dung beetles and climate change, and Sky Islands bat migration — turning detection into protection.

  • PILLAR 3: Resilient Landscapes

  • Identifying high-biodiversity landscapes with strong resilience to climate change — and restoring them in collaboration with local partners and communities.

  • Future-scenario climate modeling across Central America and the Andes-Amazon, pinpointing the landscapes most worth protecting through the coming decades.

  • On-the-ground restoration alongside farmers, ranchers, and Indigenous communities — anchored in the working lands that buffer protected areas.

  • 270,000 native trees planted in highlands reforestation, agave plantings underway across the U.S.–Mexico border to support endangered nectar-feeding bat migration, and climate-corridor maps guiding where conservation investments will matter most.

  • Central to this work is our cutting-edge research on mercury contamination and its effects on animal health. We are tracking how mercury moves through landscapes and the food chain.

  • This guides strategies to facilitate survival in the face of habitat fragmentation, heavy metal contamination, and climate change.

  • PILLAR 4: Grow the Community of Field Biologists

  • Supporting early-career field ecologists — particularly those from biodiverse countries — to lead the research conservation needs.

  • Funded research opportunities, publication support, mentorship, and access to the field stations, monitoring networks, and laboratories that anchor our science.

  • Building the long-term capacity of conservation science where it matters most.

  • Conservation only lasts if people carry it forward — so we invest in early-career field biologists, especially those from the landscapes they study, with the support, mentorship, and platform to lead.