The journeys that inspire Y2Y’s work, seen from space
Researchers across the Yellowstone-to-Yukon region combine high-resolution animal tracking with NASA satellite imagery to map the movements of wildlife across western North America.
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Conservation through collaboration
Achieving our vision across the Yellowstone to Yukon region — spanning the Yukon in Canada to Wyoming in the U.S. and at least 75 Indigenous territories — requires deep and ongoing collaboration. Here are just some of the impactful partnerships we are proud to be a part of in 2025.
One big tent: Y2Y’s 2025 impact report is here
Discover the difference you made in 2024 in Y2Y’s latest impact report.
From collaboration and science to enduring conservation
Y2Y works to advance conservation by partnering with diverse communities to connect and protect this vast, ever-changing mountain region. To guide our conservation efforts, we draw from the best available information, including from natural and social sciences as well as local and Indigenous knowledge.
Good neighbors: Living with bears
The biodiversity in the Creston Valley, B.C., is unique and thanks to local conservation efforts, still includes grizzly bears. This has created an opportunity for the community to create solutions for how wildlife and people can live alongside each other.
Reconnecting fragmented landscapes
Thanks to your support, Y2Y’s landscape connection team can continue their important work identifying and restoring critical corridors across some of the region’s busiest roads and most important habitat connections.
Helping grizzly bears find their way home
When Y2Y began in 1993, grizzly bear populations in the Yellowstone region had become separated by over 240 kilometers (150 miles) from bears in the Glacier National Park region of Montana and into Canada. Today, the gap between grizzly bear populations in the southern Rockies has shrunk to just 72 kilometers (45 miles).
Room for everyone: Reflections on 2025 from Y2Y President and Chief Scientist, Dr. Jodi Hilty
When I think about what we’ve accomplished together this year, I’m reminded that the most powerful force in conservation isn’t any single policy, paper, or protected area — it’s people coming together around what they love.
Immediate call for global action to shift towards a “Nature Positive” approach published today in Frontiers in Science
The Yellowstone to Yukon region offers a global example of driving change for nature In the paper out today from Frontiers in Science, “Nature Positive: halting and reversing biodiversity loss…
Yukon’s Dawson Region land-use plan is a win for wildlife and communities
A landmark plan commits to protecting boreal forests, wetlands, rivers and wildlife across one of North America’s last wild landscapes DAWSON CITY, YUKON — After years of negotiation, the Dawson region has a roadmap for future land use…
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