Solar development is heating up. As a result, a boom in utility-scale solar energy (USSE) projects is on its way across the country.

Amid towns, agriculture, highways, interstates, rail ways, pipelines, and a border wall, the Sky Islands connect a politically divided landscape between Sonora in northern Mexico and southern Arizona in the United States.

Entre ciudades, agricultura, autopistas, carreteras interestatales, vías férreas, oleoductos y un muro fronterizo, las Islas del Cielo conectan un paisaje políticamente dividido entre Sonora, en el norte de México, y el sur de Arizona, en Estados Unidos.

Wildlife need to move to have resource access and to adapt to climate change. However, this once-wild part of Northern California is now highly fragmented due to urban development, particularly roads and highways.

Greg Costello discusses road crossings from the perspective of those who rely on them – the animals themselves.

In recent years, our U.S. Public Policy Director, Erin Sito, has been instrumental in moving the needle on connectivity policy at the state and federal levels.

Wildeor is an Old English word for “self-willed beasts” favored by Wildlands Founder Dave Foreman. It is a short-form expression for the concept that other species should be valued and protected for their own sake without regard to their usefulness or value to humans.

From coordinating a multi-pronged coalition to serving as a subject matter expert in official meetings, Gina Chacon has been instrumental in promoting a bill proposed by the Federal Executive Branch that would ban new mines in Natural Protected Areas.

Details for a first-of-its-kind pilot program to ensure safer roads for both humans and wildlife, as well as improve habitat connectivity, were announced by the Biden Administration today.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed a new rule to address Conservation and Landscape Health on the public lands it manages across the United States.

Through innovative partnership, Wildlands Network is supporting both the restoration and rewilding of the high elevation forests of Chihuahua and the majestic thick-billed parrot.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) officially signed off on a state budget that allocates $20 million dollars for wildlife crossing projects across the state.  

Roads can pose an even greater conservation threat to smaller and less mobile species of conservation concern, such as reptiles and amphibians.

The White House has issued new guidance to Federal agencies on how to better incorporate ecological connectivity and wildlife corridors into federal planning and decision-making.