Creating Climate Resilience in the

Most Biodiverse Regions on Earth

STRATEGY & IMPACT

We are implementing scalable solutions to build resilience for biodiversity in the face of climate change.

There is no more enduring impact for the planet than building resilience for nature. Climate corridors mitigate the two most urgent challenges we face — climate change and biodiversity loss — by reconnecting fragmented landscapes so wildlife can move along elevational gradients in response to a warming climate. By restoring habitat connectivity now, we build a better world.

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We build climate corridors by:

How We Build Climate Corridors

  • Planting rare, native, and endemic tree species at scale to reconnect fragmented habitats

  • Restoring riparian zones, agave corridors, and pollinator pathways across working landscapes

  • Monitoring wildlife movement and ecosystem indicators in real time

  • Deploying field expeditions and biodiversity genomics to accelerate species discovery

  • Partnering with private landowners, Indigenous communities, and working ranches whose lands buffer protected areas

  • Investing in the early-career field ecologists who will lead conservation science for decades to come

A global solution, the Climate Corridors initiative is an international model of climate adaptation to save biodiversity and build resilience for both people and nature in the face of climate change.

The Climate Corridors initiative is an international model of climate adaptation, spanning some of the world's most biodiverse landscapes.

Our Flagship Landscapes

AmistOsa Climate Corridor

Costa Rica

Peru - Manu Climate Corridor

Peru

  • 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 partners and private landowners to drive change in the Sky Islands of the Americas Climate Corridor. Our work is based out of a network of working ranches and conservation easements that span the Madrean Archipelago — the chain of "sky islands" rising from the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. The first of its kind in the region, this network treats working lands as biodiversity lifeboats, supporting the long-term wildlife persistence and corridor connectivity that this globally significant landscape requires. Spanning an elevational gradient from roughly 3,000 to 10,700 feet across some 55 mountain ranges, our partner ranches are active centers of restoration and discovery, anchoring binational research, agave corridor planting, kit fox reintroduction, biodiversity monitoring, and the relationships with private landowners that make landscape-scale conservation possible. You can learn more about Wildlife in Motion, our implementing partner here.

  • 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.

  • Click here to donate directly to the team leading the Purus-Manu Climate Corridor in Peru

Climate Corridors' Pillars

1. Biota Discovery

2.     Detect & Protect Wildlife

3.     Resilient Landscapes

4.     Grow the community of field biologists

  • PILLAR 1: Biota Discovery

  • Using biodiversity genomics to accelerate species discovery in some of the most remote regions.

  • Field expeditions combined with environmental DNA, DNA barcoding, and partnerships with leading genomics laboratories — monitoring and modeling shifts in species ranges in response to land use and temperature change.

  • This genomic-based research focuses on keystone species with a special interest in rare and endemic species that are critically understudied.

  • Pinpointing the priority regions across elevations at the most immediate risk of climate change — so we can intervene as quickly as possible to mitigate long-term impacts.

  • PILLAR 2: DETECT AND PROTECT WILDLIFE

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

  • 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, the binational Sky Islands agave corridor being built across the U.S.–Mexico border for endangered nectar-feeding bats, and climate-corridor maps guiding where conservation investments will matter most.

  • PILLAR 4: Grow the Community of Field Biologists

  • Investing in the early-career field ecologists who will lead conservation science for decades to come — particularly those from the world's most biodiverse countries.

  • Funded field research opportunities at the biological field stations, monitoring networks, and laboratories that anchor our science.

  • Publication support and mentorship that turn early-career fieldwork into peer-reviewed conservation science.

  • Building the long-term capacity of conservation science where it matters most — at the hands of the next generation of field biologists.

Climate Corridors of Central America

Our research identified the 10 Climate Corridors of Central America with the most potential to maximize biodiversity survival long-term.

To stem biodiversity loss, conservation investments should prioritize the Climate Corridor strategy by restoring and rebuilding ecological connectivity along elevational gradients in biodiverse landscapes.

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